Takeaway.com
“Can a delisted European food-delivery consolidator restore growth under PE ownership without the embedded-finance flywheel its competitors are now building?”
Founded2000
HQAmsterdam, Netherlands
FoundersJitse Groen
Latest roundBuyout/LBO by Prosus (October 2025)
IndustryMarketplace / Food delivery
The story
Founded 2000 as Thuisbezorgd.nl, the Dutch food-ordering marketplace IPO'd in 2016 and consolidated the European market through aggressive M&A — most notably the 2020 merger with Just Eat. The embedded-finance angle is narrow: a 2021 Adyen-powered Takeaway Pay Card extended its corporate meal-benefit program into a physical debit product, but JET has not followed peers (Deliveroo with Liberis, efood with finmid) into merchant lending. After a difficult post-merger period the company was taken private by Prosus in October 2025.
Product timeline
2000
Founded as Thuisbezorgd.nl in the Netherlands by Jitse Groen· founding
2016
IPO on Euronext Amsterdam at ~$1.1B valuation· ipo
2020
Merged with UK-based Just Eat to form Just Eat Takeaway.com· acquisition
2021
Launched Takeaway Pay Card with Adyen — employee meal benefit debit card on Mastercard/Maestro· card
2024
Delisted from London Stock Exchange (November 2024)· pivot
2025
Acquired by Prosus and delisted from Euronext Amsterdam; founder Jitse Groen announced step-down as CEO· acquisition
The stack
2 layers disclosed in Takeaway.com’s embedded-finance stack
Payments / PSP
Card issuing
in the full report
Accounting gap: none
1 more provider across 1 layer, with confidence-scored evidence and source URLs, are in the Embedded Finance Index report.