“Can Wallapop become the dominant circular-economy marketplace in Southern Europe by layering embedded payments, shipping, and wallet infrastructure onto its 15M-user C2C community?”
Founded in 2013 as a classifieds app in Barcelona, Wallapop evolved from a simple listings board into a full C2C marketplace with integrated payments and shipping — driven by growing demand for sustainable, circular consumption. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated adoption. The company leaned into Mangopay's marketplace payment infrastructure to enable peer-to-peer transactions with escrow-style money flows, becoming a leading circular economy marketplace in Southern Europe. Its 2023 Yupop pilot signalled ambition beyond C2C into supporting SME e-commerce.
Wallapop discloses Mangopay as its banking provider, according to the Embedded Finance Index 2026.
Wallapop does not disclose a bank charter of its own; its banking services are provided through Mangopay.
Wallapop processes payments through Mangopay.
The Embedded Finance Index 2026 maps 2 layers in Wallapop's stack: Payments / PSP (Mangopay); Banking / BaaS (Mangopay).
Wallapop is founded in 2013 and headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.
Wallapop has raised ~$800M+ in total (latest round: Series G extension, January 2023; valuation: $832M (January 2023)).
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