About Checkout.com
Checkout.com is a global digital payments provider offering payment processing, fraud detection, authentication, intelligent acceptance, issuing and payouts for enterprise merchants. Founded in 2012 by Guillaume Pousaz and headquartered in London, it processed over $300bn in ecommerce volume in 2025 and serves clients including Microsoft, Spotify and eBay. It bootstrapped for seven years before raising outside capital in 2019.
Founder
Guillaume Pousaz
Founder & CEO
Swiss entrepreneur who founded Checkout.com in 2012 and bootstrapped it for seven years before raising its first outside capital in 2019.

- FinTech
- London, UK
- Series C+
- 2012
Funding rounds
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series C+ | Undisclosed | Altimeter, Dragoneer, Franklin Templeton, GIC, Insight Partners, Qatar Investment Authority, Tiger Global, Oxford Endowment Fund | |
| Series A | Undisclosed | Insight Partners, DST Global |





