Adyen Interesting Key Facts
- Adyen means ‘start again’ in Sranan Tongo, the lingua franca of Suriname. This was a reference to the founder’s second project, Bibit.
- In 2015, Adyen was the sixth largest European unicorn with a valuation of $2.3 billion. Unicorn in this context are companies with a valuation of over $1 billion.
- Adyen obtained its acquiring license through a BIN sponsorship in Brazil.
- In 2016, Adyen ranked number 10 on Forbe’s Cloud 100 list.
- On June 13, 2018, Adyen went public by listing shares publicly in Amsterdam.
- Adyen was one of the companies that benefited from the accelerated digitalization of global eCommerce during the pandemic in 2020.
- In January 2018, eBay made Ayden its primary payments processing partner.
Sources: NOS, Forbes, Business Insider, DPG Media, CNBC
Adyen: Company Overview (About)
Adyen is a Dutch payment company founded in 2015. The story of Adyen is promising, so let's take a look at some interesting facts about the company!
At a glance:
We've summed up almost everything within the table above. How much of this did you know already?
We guarantee that there's going to be a lot of new information for you below.
What is Pieter van der Does’ net worth?
According to Forbes, Pieter van der Does have a net worth of $2.6 billion in 2021. As of Q3 of 2022, Pieter van der Does has a net worth of $2.2 billion.

As with Adyen's revenue going up, the CEO's net worth also increases.
Speaking of which...
Source: Forbes
Adyen Revenue
Adyen had revenue of €6.00 billion or $6.28 billion in 2021.
The table below shows shows you Adyen's revenue in the past few years.

Look at that increase! At Adyen, every year has an at least 50% increase in revenue.
Source: Google Finance
Adyen Profit
Adyen had a profit of €469.72 million or $429.06 billion in 2021.

The table below shows how much profit Adyen made in the previous years. If we exclude 2017, there's always a major increase in profits.
If we look at the table above, so far, 2018's profit was had the highest increase, with 83.92% more profit than in 2017.
To be honest, 2019 is also a great year, with 78.64% more profit than the previous year.
Source: Google Finance
Adyen Funding History
Adyen has raised a total of €253.41 million in funding over 3 rounds.
Source: Crunchbase
Adyen Investments
Adyen has only made one investment. Adyen has invested in Skeleton Technologies on November 3, 2020.
The funding round, Series D - Skeleton Technologies, was valued at €41.3 million.
Source: Crunchbase
How much is Adyen worth?
In 2018, Adyen was valued at €7.90 billion when they opened for an IPO.
That is the most recent evaluation that we currently know of. As soon as a new evaluation comes out, we'll be sure to update this post.
Until then, stay tuned.
Source: Crunchbase
What is Adyen’s market capitalization?
As of 2022, Adyen’s market cap is €44.48 billion or $47.20 billion.

The data below shows us Adyen’s complete market cap history at the end of every year.
Notice how 2021 had Adyen's greatest market cap, totaling 71.26 billion Euros. That is an over 22.3% increase than in the year before!
Though, one year after, Adyen's market capitalization was of 44.48 billion Euros in 2022, falling under 2021's numbers.
Source: Google Finance, Companies Market Cap
Who invested in Adyen?
Adyen has a total number of 7 investors with 3 lead investors.
There are quite a lot of investors in Adyen. Which one do you know most about?
Source: Crunchbase
How does Adyen make money?
Adyen’s primary revenue comes from the settlement fees and processing fees charged per transaction to its merchants. The fees vary depending on the method of payment and the region where the transaction takes place.

Source: Adyen, Join Colossus
How many payment methods does Adyen support?
As a payment gateway platform, Adyen supports more than 100 payment methods as of December 2022. Some of these payment methods are:
- Swish
- Affirm
- Samsung Pay
- Visa
- Blik
- Payco
- oney
- Paypal
- Apple Pay
- Grab Pay
- and more.

Source: Adyen
Adyen Total Payment Volume (TPV) through payment gateway
Most recent data shows that Adyen's TPV is of €516 billion (2021). We don't know the numbers for 2022 yet.
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Observe how from 2015, each year had more total payment volume. That only shows how much Adyen grew throughout the years!
Source: Statista
What is Adyen’s exchange rate?
Adyen’s exchange rate depends on the day of the transaction. As of December 2022, Adyen charge 1.2% for the primary settlement currencies (USD, EUR, SEK, NOK, GBP, etc) and 3% for other currencies.
Source: Adyen
How many people work at Adyen?
As per Linkedin, Adyen has 3,650 employees in December 2022, an addition of around 1,500 employees compared to 2021.

Just like revenue and TPV, with each new year, numbers go higher for employees too. In 2018, there were 873 people at Adyen, and now there are over 3,650.
Source: Linkedin, Adyen 1, Adyen 2, Adyen 3, Adyen 4
How many partners does Adyen have?
Adyen has 159 partners. 85 of Adyen’s partners are in the tech industry. Some of these partners are:
- eBay
- Magento
- Cegid
- Hybris
- Salesforce Commerce Cloud
- Netsuite
See how there are a quite a lot of big names that work with Adyen!
Source: Adyen, Partnerbase
How many customers does Adyen have?
Adyen has 10,000 businesses and 40,000 consumers as their customers.

Source: Adyen
Who are Adyen’s biggest customers?
Adyen’s biggest customers are retail brands from Levi’s and Gap Inc. to Swarovski and L'Oréal, as well as major online platforms such as Etsy, eBay, and Uber.
There are only a few payment companies that have the capacity and the ability to unify transaction processing across digital and physical shopping, Adyen is one of them.
Source: Fortune
What is the age distribution of people who use Adyen?
As of December 2022, most of Adyen’s users are people age 25-34 with 32.44% percentage of its overall consumer population.

The following data are estimations based on the web traffic on Adyen.
The second largest age bracket of Adyen users is the 18-24 group, with 22.56% of all the users.
Source: Similarweb
What is the gender distribution of people who use Adyen?
As of December 2022, there are 55.22% of male users and 44.78% female users.

The following data are estimations based on the web traffic on Adyen.
Source: Similarweb
What are the top industries that are using Adyen?
According to an estimation by Enlyft in 2022, Adyen is mostly used in retail industry and least used by companies in the consumer service industry. There were 1,700 companies and businesses used as sample for this estimation.

Source: Enlyft
Followed by the Retail industry, there's the Computer Software industry, with 241 of the total companies that are using Adyen.
Look at the table above and see how there is a wide variety of industries that are using Adyen. The payment processor is dedicated to any almost domain!
Where is Adyen available (in which countries)?
As of December 2022, Adyen support local payouts from a lot of European countries. Aside from Europe, Adyen has begun supporting other countries’ local payouts.
Here is the complete list of the countries where Adyen is available at.
At the moment, there are only 11 countries outside of Europe where Adyen is being used as a payment processor.
Source: Adyen
Which countries is Adyen most popular in?
As of December 2022, Adyen is most popular in Germany with 12.33% of the traffic. Then, it is also popular in United Kingdom with 9.84% contribution on the oncoming web traffic.

The following data are estimations based on the oncoming web traffic to Adyen.
Leaving Germany and the UK aside, you can see how France is the third most popular country for Adyen. Not too far are the US and Netherlands!
Source: Similarweb
Adyen Financials
This section provides us with a more detailed look at Adyen’s financials throughout the years. It includes their operating expense, the net profit margin, earnings per share, and more.
Source: Google Finance
Adyen Operating Expense
Adyen had an operating expense of €152.04 million or $159.20 million in 2021.
See how the operating expense is not as high as the profit increase throughout the years, which is obviously good for Adyen.
Just like any other company, Adyen tries to keep the operating expense at a minimum, with the Y/Y change lowering almost every year.
Source: Google Finance
Adyen Net Profit Margin
Adyen had a net profit margin of 7.83 in 2021.
There are both ups and downs when we're talking about Adyen's net profit margin. Some years have a decrease, while most of them have an increase.
Source: Google Finance
What is Adyen’s Earnings per Share?
Adyen had an earning per share of 15.32 in 2021.
Excluding 2017 and 2018, you can see how the 2019-2020 interval has only seen increases in Adyen's earnings per share.
Notice this especially in 2020-2021, when there was a huge 80% increase.
Source: Google Finance
What is Adyen’s EBITDA?
Adyen had an EBITDA of €623.07 million or $652.53 million in 2021.
Source: Google Finance
What is Adyen’s Effective tax rate?
Adyen had an effective tax rate of 19.13% in 2021.
Source: Google Finance
What are Adyen’s cash and short-term investments?
Adyen’s cash and short term investments was €4.62 billion or $4.84 billion in 2021.
Source: Google Finance
Adyen’s Total Assets
Adyen had total assets of €5.78 billion or $6.05 billion in 2021.
Source: Google Finance
Adyen Total Liabilities
Adyen had total liabilities of €3.97 billion or $4.16 billion in 2021.
Source: Google Finance
Adyen Total Equity
Adyen had a total equity of €1.81 billion or $1.90 billion in 2021.
Source: Google Finance
Adyen Shares Outstanding
Adyen had shares outstanding of 30.96 million in 2021.
Source: Google Finance
Adyen Price-to-Book Ratio
Adyen had a price-to-book ratio of 24.82 in 2021.
Source: Google Finance
Adyen Return on Assets
Adyen had a 7.65% return on assets in 2021.
Source: Google Finance
Adyen Return on Capital
Adyen had a return on capital of 23.00% in 2021.
Source: Google Finance
Adyen Cash from Operations
Adyen had cash from operations of €1.82 billion or $1.91 billion in 2021.
Source: Google Finance
Adyen Cash from Investing
Adyen had a cash from investing of -€42.13 million or -$44.12 million in 2021.
Source: Google Finance
Adyen Cash from Financing
Adyen had a cash from financing of €96.24 million or $100.80 million in 2021.
Source: Google Finance
Adyen Net Change in Cash
Adyen had a net change in cash of €1.88 billion or $1.97 billion in 2021.
Source: Google Finance
Adyen Free Cash Flow
Adyen had a free cash flow of €1.63 billion or $1.71 billion in 2021.
Source: Google Finance
Adyen Traffic Analysis
These are data collected on Adyen Website Traffic Analysis as of November 2022:
Adyen Traffic Summary
Source: HypeStat
Adyen Traffic Sources

Source: HypeStat
What are the top outgoing links from Adyen.com?
Since Adyen’s main feature is to act as a payment gateway, it is important for us to know which different websites receive the most outgoing links from Adyen. Similarweb stated that there were 325 websites that receive Adyen.com’s outgoing links. 50% of the time, visitors on Adyen.com gets sent to its start a trial webpage. The table below shows us a more detailed breakdown.
Source: Similarweb
How much time do people spend on Adyen.com?
The average time spent by people visiting Adyen.com is:
- 00:01:29

Source: Similarweb