Adyen

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Updated Aug 5, 2026

Overview

Adyen N.V. is a public Amsterdam-based financial-technology platform that provides end-to-end payments, data-driven insights, and financial products through a single global platform for large businesses.

Primary product

Single-platform global payments and financial-technology infrastructure: online and in-person payments, acquiring, risk/optimization, data insights, issuing, accounts/capital, and platform/embedded-finance products.

Founded

2006

Headquarters

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Team size

Approximately 4,500–4,800 (4,771 at December 31, 2025)

Work style

Flexible

Industry

Financial services / fintech

Sub-industry

Payment processing, merchant acquiring, embedded finance and financial infrastructure

Offices

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Berlin, Germany

Brussels, Belgium

London, United Kingdom

Madrid, Spain

Paris, France

Stockholm, Sweden

New York, United States

Chicago, United States

San Francisco, United States

Business model

B2B enterprise payments processing

Merchant acquiring and settlement

Usage-based transaction fees

Financial products and embedded finance for platforms

SaaS/platform services and data-driven optimization

Funding

Stage

Public company; IPO on Euronext Amsterdam in 2018

Total raised

$266M

Latest round

Series C · Sep 2015

IPO

Jun 2018

Series C

Sep 2015 · ICONIQ Capital

Series B

Dec 2014 · Index Ventures

$250M

Series A

Jun 2014

$16M

Series A (earlier/undisclosed tranche)

Jan 2014 · Man Capital

People & investors

Leadership

Pieter van der Does

Co-founder and Co-CEO

Ingo Uytdehaage

Co-CEO

Roelant Prins

Chief Commercial Officer

Mariëtte Swart

Chief Risk and Compliance Officer

Brooke Nayden

Chief Human Resources Officer

Ethan Tandowsky

Chief Financial Officer (departing August 31, 2026)

Tom Adams

Chief Technology Officer

Gayathri Rajan

Chief Product Officer, effective July 1, 2026

Hwa Tsao

Interim Chief Financial Officer, effective September 1, 2026

Founders

Arnout Schuijff

Co-founder; former Adyen CTO

Investors

Work & culture

Adyen describes an office-first but flexible model emphasizing in-person collaboration, autonomy, direct communication, customer impact, long-term decisions, fast launches and iteration, and 'winning is more important than ego.'

Work style

Flexible

Visa sponsorship

Limited

Compensation

Public materials indicate competitive local packages and location-specific benefits; Adyen+ is a monthly flexible contribution. Specific salary ranges are role- and geography-dependent and were not consistently public in the reviewed evidence.

Benefits

Health insurance and locally mandated benefits

Commute allowance

Lunch in the office

Adyen+ monthly flexible contribution

Childcare support

Language courses

Home-office setup support

Paid leave and holidays (location-dependent)

Product & market

Pricing

Transaction-based pricing, generally combining a fixed processing fee with payment-method and acquiring costs; enterprise and product pricing can vary by method, region, volume, and negotiated contract.

Differentiators

—Single global platform rather than a patchwork of acquired systems
—End-to-end payments, data and financial products
—In-house, engineering-led technology stack
—Global acquiring, local payment methods and licensed infrastructure
—Enterprise scale and unified online/in-person commerce
—Data and AI optimization such as Adyen Uplift
—Strong platform and embedded-finance capabilities

Technology

Java

Java 17

REST

SQL/PostgreSQL

MyBatis

AWS

Tomcat

Gradle

CockroachDB

Elasticsearch

Apache Flink

Kotlin

GraphQL

PyTorch

Open-source and open-weight AI models

In-house monorepo and infrastructure

Customers

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

Approximately €2.36 billion net revenue for FY2025 (roughly US$2.5–2.8 billion depending on exchange rate); third-party company profiles commonly estimate about €2.2 billion annual revenue.

Signals & risks

Acquisition

Apr 2026

Agreed to acquire and subsequently completed the €750 million acquisition of Talon.One, a loyalty and incentives platform serving 300+ merchants.

Source

Acquisition

Jun 2026

Agreed to acquire and subsequently completed the $335 million acquisition of Orb, an enterprise billing platform; Adyen said the deals were its first two acquisitions in its 20-year history.

Source

Other

Jul 2026

CFO Ethan Tandowsky is scheduled to leave on August 31, 2026; Hwa Tsao will become interim CFO on September 1 while a permanent search continues.

Source

Latest news

Adyen closes Talon.One and Orb acquisitions; announces leadership updates

Adyen · Jul 2026

Adyen completed its first two acquisitions, Talon.One and Orb, and announced Gayathri Rajan as CPO and Hwa Tsao as incoming interim CFO.

Adyen to acquire Orb to unify billing and payments infrastructure

Adyen · Jun 2026

Adyen announced a $335 million cash acquisition of enterprise billing platform Orb.

Adyen to acquire Talon.One to enable real-time decisioning

Adyen · Apr 2026

Adyen announced a €750 million cash acquisition of Talon.One, a loyalty and incentives platform.

Adyen publishes 2025 Annual Report

Adyen · Mar 2026

The annual report describes continued investment in the single platform, AI optimization, agentic commerce and global expansion.

Adyen publishes H2 2025 financial results

Adyen · Feb 2026

FY2025 net revenue was €2,364.2 million, processed volume €1,394.3 billion, and EBITDA €1,245.7 million.

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