{"id":1663,"date":"2025-09-26T11:43:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T11:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/checkout-com-valued-at-12-billion-in-employee-share-buyback\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T11:43:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T11:43:39","slug":"checkout-com-valued-at-12-billion-in-employee-share-buyback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/checkout-com-valued-at-12-billion-in-employee-share-buyback\/","title":{"rendered":"Checkout.com valued at $12 billion in employee share buyback"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"RegularArticle-ArticleBody-5\" data-module=\"ArticleBody\" data-test=\"articleBody-2\" data-analytics=\"RegularArticle-articleBody-5-2\"><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\" style=\"top:0;left:0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"InlineImage-imageEmbed\" id=\"ArticleBody-InlineImage-108204061\" data-test=\"InlineImage\">\n<div class=\"InlineImage-wrapper\">\n<div>\n<p>Guillaume Pousaz, CEO and founder of payment platform Checkout.com, speaking at the annual Web Summit technology conference in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Horacio Villalobos | Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p>LONDON \u2014 Fintech unicorn Checkout.com is giving staff a way of cashing in their shares: buying them out.<\/p>\n<p>The London-headquartered payments platform said Friday that it plans to launch a share buyback initiative for employees to &#8220;provide them with a path to liquidity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The share buyback program is based on a new internal valuation of $12 billion, Checkout.com said. Although internal, the valuation marks a significant drop from its last fundraising round \u2014 Checkout.com was valued at $40 billion in a $1 billion funding round in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The company previously lowered its internal valuation to $11 billion in 2022, and then again to $9.35 billion in 2023. Checkout.com says it regularly monitors the value for its employees in its share incentive program.<\/p>\n<p>The fintech competes with payment service providers such as Stripe, <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-2\">Adyen<span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"\/><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span> and <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-3\">PayPal<span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"\/><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span>. 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