“Can a century-old family brewery scale a digital marketplace for craft beverages by embedding payments and fintech infrastructure directly into its platform layer?”
Estrella Galicia began as a traditional family-owned brewery in 1906 and has remained privately held for over a century. In recent years, the group launched MOVE Estrella Galicia Digital, a spin-off unit focused on digital business acceleration and open innovation. The most significant embedded finance development is the BigCrafters platform — a digital marketplace for craft beverages — which adopted Mangopay for payment orchestration, marking Estrella Galicia's first known foray into embedded payments infrastructure.
Estrella Galicia discloses Mangopay as its banking provider, according to the Embedded Finance Index 2026.
Estrella Galicia does not disclose a bank charter of its own; its banking services are provided through Mangopay.
Estrella Galicia processes payments through Mangopay.
The Embedded Finance Index 2026 maps 2 layers in Estrella Galicia's stack: Payments / PSP (Mangopay); Banking / BaaS (Mangopay).
Estrella Galicia is founded in 1906 and headquartered in A Coruña, Spain.
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