Mollie B.V.
| Private | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Financial technology |
| Founded 📆 | 2004 |
| Founder 👔 | Adriaan Mol |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , Amsterdam , Netherlands |
Area served 🗺️ | |
Key people | Koen Köppen (CEO) |
| Products 📟 | Payment processing, payment gateway, point of sale, working capital |
| Members | |
Number of employees | ~850 (2025) |
| 🌐 Website | www |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
Mollie B.V. is a Dutch financial technology company and payment service provider (PSP) headquartered in Amsterdam. It offers online and in‑person payment processing, invoicing, and working-capital products for businesses, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises in Europe.[1] The company is licensed as an electronic money institution by De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) and, in the United Kingdom, operates through a subsidiary authorised as a payment institution by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).[2][3]
As of 2025 Mollie reports serving more than 250,000 business customers across Europe and employing around 850 staff in multiple offices, including Amsterdam, Ghent, Lisbon, London, Milan, Munich and Paris.[1][4]
History
Mollie was founded in Amsterdam in 2004 by Dutch entrepreneur Adriaan Mol. The business originally sold wholesale SMS services and supported small online micropayments for uses such as gaming and ringtones, before shifting its focus towards online payments after adding support for the Dutch iDEAL bank transfer scheme in the mid‑2000s.[5][6]
Payments specialist Gaston Aussems became chief executive in 2013 and led the company through its early European expansion and first institutional funding rounds, remaining in the role until 2020.[7] In April 2021 Mollie appointed former Worldpay executive Shane Happach as CEO to support international growth following a Series B funding round.[8]
In January 2023 Mollie announced that its chief technology officer, Koen Köppen – previously CTO at Klarna – would become chief executive, succeeding Happach.[9][10]
Products and services
Mollie provides an API‑based payments platform and hosted checkout for online merchants, together with plug‑ins for common e‑commerce and billing systems. Its services allow businesses to accept major international card schemes, digital wallets such as Apple Pay and PayPal, and a range of local payment methods including iDEAL and Bancontact.[11][12]
Funding and valuation
For its first decade Mollie grew largely without external institutional capital. In July 2019 it announced its first funding round, raising €25 million from a group of technology and payments entrepreneurs to support international expansion.[13]
In September 2020 Mollie secured €90 million in a Series B round led by US growth investor TCV, giving the company a valuation above US$1 billion and placing it among Europe's fintech “unicorns”.[14][15]
In June 2021 the company raised US$800 million (€665 million) in a Series C round led by Blackstone Growth, with participation from investors including EQT Growth, General Atlantic, HMI Capital and Alkeon. The funding valued Mollie at about US$6.5 billion, making it one of Europe's most highly valued privately held fintech companies at the time.[16][17]
Operations and regulation
Mollie is headquartered on the Keizersgracht in central Amsterdam and operates additional offices across the Benelux, Germany, France, Italy, the Nordic countries, Portugal, Poland and the United Kingdom.[1] It markets itself as a European PSP with localised payment methods and language support in each market.[18][19]
Mollie B.V. is listed in the DNB public register as an electronic money institution (relation number F0038) authorised to issue e‑money and provide payment services in the Netherlands and, via passporting, other European Economic Area states.[2] In the UK, the FCA granted Mollie UK Ltd a domestic payment institution licence in 2023, replacing its earlier reliance on the post‑Brexit temporary permissions regime and enabling the launch of additional local products.[3][20]
Acquisition of GoCardless
In December 2025 Mollie agreed to acquire UK-based bank payments company GoCardless in a transaction valuing GoCardless at about €1.05 billion and the combined group at around €3 billion. The deal, backed by existing private equity investors including Blackstone and EQT, aims to combine GoCardless's strengths in recurring bank payments and open banking with Mollie's card and omnichannel payments platform. The companies stated that together they would serve more than 350,000 customers across Europe and the UK, and that the transaction is expected to close in 2026 subject to regulatory approvals.[21]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "About Mollie". Mollie. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Information detail – Mollie B.V." De Nederlandsche Bank. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kular, Dalvinder (3 November 2023). "FCA grants Mollie UK licence". FStech. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
- ↑ "Mollie – Company overview". LeadIQ. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
- ↑ "What Is the Brief History of Mollie Company?". Canvas Business Model. 2024. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
- ↑ van Oost, Marcel (4 June 2025). "Mollie Hits €115M Profit After 30% Rise, Aims for Full European Presence by 2026". Connecting the Dots in Fintech. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
- ↑ "Gaston Aussems – ex‑CEO of Mollie". Fintech Finance. 2021. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
- ↑ "Shane Happach has been appointed as Mollie's new CEO". Mollie. 2 March 2021. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
- ↑ Methri, Gloria (3 February 2023). "Mollie names ex‑Klarna CTO Koen Köppen as CEO". IBS Intelligence. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
- ↑ "Amsterdam fintech unicorn Mollie appoints Koen Köppen as new CEO, replacing Shane Happach". Silicon Canals. 25 January 2023. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
- ↑ "Online Payments". Mollie. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
- ↑ "Payment methods". Mollie. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
- ↑ Srivastava, Akansha (2 July 2019). "Amsterdam-based fintech startup Mollie raises €25M in first-ever funding round". Silicon Canals. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
- ↑ "Mollie raises €90m Series B funding". UKTN. 8 September 2020. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
- ↑ Lomas, Natasha (7 September 2020). "Dutch payments startup Mollie raises $106M at $1B+ valuation". TechCrunch. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
- ↑ Kenyon, Tilly (22 June 2021). "Payment startup Mollie raises US$800m at a $6.5bn valuation". FinTech Magazine. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
- ↑ Hindle, Paul (22 June 2021). "Dutch fintech Mollie raises $800m in Series C round". FinTech Futures. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
- ↑ "Betalingen en financiële oplossingen vereenvoudigd". Mollie (Dutch site). Retrieved 11 December 2025.
- ↑ "Mollie expands into Italy with local payment solutions for businesses". Financial IT. 2024-11-09. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
- ↑ "Mollie improves reach following Payment Institution licence from the FCA". The Fintech Times. 2 November 2023. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
- ↑ "Private capital-backed Mollie buys GoCardless for €1.1bn". Financial Times. 11 December 2025. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
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