1700+ employees & 85+ nationalities
24+ offices around the world
€303.6 BN billion in processed volume in 2020
Adyen was founded in 2006 by a group of entrepreneurs, including Pieter van der Does and Arnout Schuijff. The existing payments technology consisted of a patchwork of systems built on outdated infrastructure. With the aim of helping businesses grow, the co-founders set out to build a platform capable of meeting the rapidly evolving needs of today's fast-growing global businesses.
Adyen's founding team called the business Adyen – Surinamese for "Start over again" – and focused on building a modern infrastructure directly connected to card networks and local payment methods across the world, allowing for unified commerce and providing shopper data insights to merchants. The Adyen platform enables merchants to accept payments in a single system, enabling revenue growth online, on mobile devices and at the point of sale.
Founded in 2006 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Signed our first global enterprise merchant, Groupon
Expanded product offering to include
risk management tools
Obtained European acquiring license
Opened office locations in
San Francisco, London, Paris and Stockholm
Added point of sale (POS) to our
service offering
Launched Adyen for Platforms
Obtained acquiring licenses for
Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia,
and New Zealand
Launched Terminal API
Launched Adyen Issuing
Obtained acquiring license for Malaysia
We build to benefit all merchants (not just one)
We make good choices to build an ethical business and drive sustainable growth for our merchants
Winning is more important than ego; we work as a team - across cultures and time zones
We include different people to sharpen our ideas
We don’t hide behind email, instead we pick up the phone
We create our own path and won’t be slowed down by “stewards”
We launch fast and iterate
We talk straight without being rude
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Mexico City
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São Paulo
Shanghai
Singapore
Stockholm
Sydney
Tokyo
Toronto
Warsaw