Lemonway is a Paris-headquartered marketplace-payments specialist founded in 2007 by Sébastien Burlet and Damien Guermonprez. Operating as a French ACPR-licensed Payment Institution (approval number 16568, since 2012) with European passporting across 29 countries, Lemonway directly competes with Mangopay and Stripe Connect for marketplace-payment infrastructure. The company processes €12.4B annually across 1.4M open wallets and reports 400+ marketplace clients including SNCF Connect & Tech, Decathlon, Eiffage, and ArcelorMittal: a customer list that skews heavily toward large French enterprises and B2B marketplaces. Offices in Paris (HQ) and Hamburg with approximately 145 employees.
For an EU-sovereignty audit Lemonway is the cleanest marketplace-payments listing alongside its competitor Mangopay. The cap table is entirely European: €50M total raised across Breega Capital (Paris VC, lead 2018 €35M), Speedinvest (Vienna VC, 2018 co-lead), and Toscafund (UK asset manager, €25M in 2019), with no US private-equity or venture-capital involvement on record. The ACPR licence anchors the legal jurisdiction firmly in France with all the supervisory teeth of European banking law. A 2024 partnership with Société Générale to support large-corporate B2B marketplaces in Europe adds an EU-bank co-distribution channel. PCI-DSS certified; 99.9%+ API availability. The 2024 acquisition of PayGreen's operations extended Lemonway from pure marketplace payments into broader e-commerce.
Pricing is enterprise / volume-negotiated and marketplace-specific; no public per-transaction tier applies, and starts_from_eur is left null. Best fit: EU marketplaces and B2B platforms requiring ACPR-licensed multi-party payment infrastructure with full EU jurisdiction and no US PE/VC involvement in the ownership chain: particularly French and DACH marketplaces. Two transparency gaps remain: the underlying hosting provider is not publicly disclosed on accessible pages (vendor outreach can confirm whether it's OVHcloud, Scaleway, or similar French infrastructure, typical for ACPR-licensed PIs), and the DPA is embedded in the general T&Cs rather than published as a standalone document.