Lemon.markets raised €15 million seed funding in a round co-led by Lakestar and Lightspeed.

lemon.markets, a Münster, Germany-based software startup, announced securing a seed funding deal in a round closed at €15 million ($16.5M).

The money was raised from investors co-led by Lakestar and Lightspeed, and included contributions from early backers Creandum and System.One.

lemon.markets was founded in 2020 by Marcel Katenhusen and CEO Maximilian (Max) Linden and built a development environment to process market data in an own automated strategy leading to order execution at the stock market via an API. It  powers personalised savings plans and automated trading strategies and plans to enable neobanks to embed stock trading in their product and contextual use cases like reinvesting tax refunds.

lemon.markets was initially pre-seeded in 2021 by Creandum, Angel Invest and System.One .