What Minty Labs SAS does

Minty Labs SAS is a France-domiciled private company operating Minty Card, a mobile-first marketplace for buying and selling physical Pokémon trading cards. The platform serves both casual collectors and individual-to-professional card sellers, offering card-scanning-assisted listing creation, browsing/filtering by series, rarity, condition and price, in-app buyer-seller messaging, seller profiles with transaction history, and relay-point shipping options. The product is delivered through a responsive web platform alongside native iOS and Android applications distributed via the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Backend infrastructure runs on Google Cloud Platform (Firebase) covering API, database and authentication, with web presence hosted on Squarespace and payment processing handled by Stripe under a model where Minty does not store cardholder data.

The company's revenue model is a buyer-side take-rate structure: sellers pay 0% commission and retain 100% of the sale price, while Minty charges service fees to buyers that are displayed transparently at checkout. Minty is registered as a Société par actions simplifiée (SAS) in Bourg-en-Bresse, France with a stated share capital of €100, and its head Clément Tarbouriech serves as Président and directeur de la publication. The company has no disclosed institutional investors, parent entity, subsidiaries, funding rounds, headcount data, or M&A activity in the source material. Compliance posture includes GDPR/RGPD-aligned data subject rights, CCPA-style cookie consent management, and appointment of a DSA contact, with data hosted within the European Union.

From a go-to-market perspective, Minty pursues a product-led growth and marketplace-listing hybrid: a self-serve app lowers the barrier to listing via scanning, while the dual-sided marketplace monetizes only the demand side. The competitive positioning centers on three pillars — category specificity (Pokémon cards only), a commission-free seller proposition aimed at luring supply away from incumbents, and a mobile-native user experience — though there is no disclosure of GMV, take-rate magnitude, active user counts, or unit economics to validate traction.

Name

Minty Labs SAS

Legal name

Minty Labs SAS

Website

https://minty-card.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Minty Labs SAS operates Minty Card, a mobile-first marketplace app for buying and selling physical Pokémon trading cards. It serves casual collectors and individual-to-professional sellers via iOS/Android apps and a web platform, charging buyer-side service fees while offering 0% seller commission.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Ségny

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. Buyer Service Fees: Platform charges service fees to buyers on transactions. Exact fee amounts are displayed clearly at checkout. Sellers pay 0% commission on sales.
2. Marketplace Commission (Buyer-side): As an intermediary marketplace, Minty connects sellers and buyers of collectible Pokémon cards and takes a cut from buyer transactions while offering 0% seller commission.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Minty Labs SAS operates Minty Card, a mobile-first marketplace platform dedicated to buying and selling physical Pokémon trading cards. The platform connects individual sellers and collectors, enabling users to scan cards to auto-populate listings, browse by series/rarity/condition, transact securely, and coordinate delivery via relay points. The company charges buyer-side service fees while offering 0% seller commission, with payments processed via Stripe.

Product overview

Minty Labs SAS operates Minty Card, a single unified mobile marketplace platform for trading Pokémon collectible cards. The offering consists of the Minty Card web platform (www.minty-card.com) and native mobile applications for iOS and Android. The platform provides a complete marketplace ecosystem including card listing creation via photo/scan upload, buyer-seller messaging, secure Stripe-powered payments, and point-relay delivery coordination. The company charges buyer-side service fees while offering 0% vendor commission.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Minty Card A premium mobile-first marketplace platform for buying and selling Pokémon trading cards, accessible via responsive web at minty-card.com and through native iOS and Android applications. The platform connects collectors and sellers, offering card scanning for quick listing creation, authentication filtering by series/rarity/condition/price, secure Stripe-backed payments, in-app buyer-seller messaging, seller profiles with transaction histories, and point-relay delivery coordination. Targets individual collectors, individual sellers, and professional card vendors.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• StripecoreTechnology or IntegrationPayment service provider handling secure payment processing for marketplace transactions. Minty does not store card numbers - all payment data is handled by Stripe. Refunds also process through Stripe when applicable.
• Google Cloud Platform (Firebase)coreTechnology or IntegrationBackend infrastructure provider for the Minty application including API services, database, and authentication. Data hosted within the European Union.

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Cardmarket: Cardmarket is a Europe-focused marketplace where collectors and vendors buy and sell trading cards, including Pokémon. It is closely comparable in category, two-sided marketplace model and European user base, with more than 70 games and a broader selection.
• TCGplayer: TCGplayer is a dedicated online marketplace for collectible trading-card games, including Pokémon, serving hobbyists and sellers with cataloging, listing and fixed-price transactions. Its product category, customers and marketplace model closely overlap Minty Card, although TCGplayer operates at greater scale.
• PWCC Marketplace: PWCC Marketplace is an online marketplace and auction platform dedicated to trading cards, including high-value collectible cards, serving serious sellers and buyers. It overlaps directly in category and customer base, although its auction-led model differs from Minty's standard fixed-price marketplace.
• COMC: COMC provides a fixed-price marketplace and consignment infrastructure for collectible trading cards, along with cataloging and seller inventory tools. It is comparable at the trading-card marketplace level, even though its card mix and operations are broader than Minty's Pokémon-only focus.
• Sportlots: Sportlots is an online marketplace for buying and selling collectible trading cards, offering fixed-price inventory and seller tools. It is comparable at the card-marketplace and workflow level, though its inventory is more heavily oriented to sports cards.

Broad incumbents

• StockX: StockX is an authenticated fixed-price marketplace for collectibles, including trading cards, built around buyer and seller fees, condition standards and transaction trust. It overlaps with Minty in authenticated collectible commerce but covers a much broader set of high-value categories and brands.
• Facebook Marketplace: Facebook Marketplace is a large mobile and local C2C marketplace where collectors can buy and sell Pokémon cards without a specialized platform. It competes for the same user transactions but lacks Minty's category-specific scanning, discovery and trust features.
• eBay: eBay operates a broad fixed-price C2C and business marketplace with an extensive collectible-trading-card selection. It competes for the same buyers and sellers and benefits from greater liquidity, but trading cards are only one category within its wider platform.

Emerging players

• Whatnot: Whatnot is a mobile-first social marketplace where sellers conduct live auctions and fixed-price sales, with Pokémon cards a prominent collectibles category. It targets the same collectors and sellers, but its live-auction and video-commerce model makes it a partial rather than direct match.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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