The Covid-19 pandemic is also making winners.
“E-commerce has suddenly gained 4 to 5 years in its development,”
explains Guillaume Pousaz, CEO and founder of the British start-up Checkout.com, specializing in internet payment infrastructures.
Checkout.com is taking full advantage of this explosion.
The start-up created in 2012, which acts as an intermediary between large shopping groups (1,500 customers including H&M, Pizza Hut, etc.) and their customers, has just raised $ 450 million to continue its growth!
The investors are American, notably Tiger Global Management and Greenoaks Capital.
Historic investors (Insight Partners, DST Global, the Singapore sovereign wealth fund, etc.) followed.
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This new fundraising allows Checkout.com to triple its valuation estimated at 15 billion dollars.
Which makes it the fourth most valued fintech in the world.
“Payment-related fintechs like Adyen, Stripe or Checkout are surfing the explosion
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