“Can Swile become France's default employee-benefits and corporate-spending super app — owning the full loop from benefit issuance to payment infrastructure — and replicate that model in Brazil?”
Founded in 2018 as Lunchr, a pure-play digital meal-voucher issuer competing with Edenred and Sodexo. Rebranded as Swile in 2020 and extended the single smartcard to cover all French employee benefits (titres-resto, titres cadeaux, mobilité, culture). The 2022 acquisition of Bimpli transformed Swile into the market leader with 5.5M users. The company is now positioning itself as a full employee-engagement 'super app', layering corporate travel management and SEPA-native payment infrastructure onto its benefits core.
Swile discloses Treezor as its banking provider, according to the Embedded Finance Index 2026.
Swile does not disclose a bank charter of its own; its banking services are provided through Treezor.
Swile processes payments through Swile (self-operated via Mastercard network), PayZen and PayGreen. Disclosed money-movement rails: SEPA.
Swile's cards are issued through Treezor.
Swile runs its ledger on Mambu.
The Embedded Finance Index 2026 maps 5 layers in Swile's stack: Payments / PSP (Swile (self-operated via Mastercard network), PayZen and PayGreen); Money movement (SEPA); Banking / BaaS (Treezor); Card issuing (Treezor); Ledger (Mambu).
Swile was founded by Loïc Soubeyrand and is founded in 2018, headquartered in Montpellier / Paris, France.
Swile has raised $328.3M in total.
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