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Yuno provides a unified payment processing platform that connects businesses to a wide network of payment processors and methods through a single integration. It consolidates acceptances across multiple providers so companies don’t need to manage many integrations, enabling faster deployment (six weeks) and higher acceptance rates while reducing costs. Revenue comes from a subscription for platform access plus transaction fees on processed payments. Yuno serves a global range of clients from small businesses to large enterprises and aims to simplify global payments data and operations for financial teams.
About Yuno
Industries
Data & Analytics
Enterprise Software
Fintech
Financial Services
Company Size
501-1,000
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$80M
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2022
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What believers are saying
- August 12, 2026 Series B from a16z, Tiger Global, and Global PayTech deepens balance sheet.
- Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Tabby partnerships open GCC merchants and 25 million shoppers.
- June 2026 CTO Edwin Poot strengthens engineering execution for in-person and agentic commerce.
What critics are saying
- Stripe, Adyen, dLocal, and Nuvei compress Yuno's pricing and integration advantages.
- Payment failures, chargebacks, and scheme-rule changes can erase routing gains within quarters.
- If enterprise volume stalls before profitability in 2027, Yuno's growth story breaks.
What makes Yuno unique
- August 2026 funding backs Yuno's single-API orchestration across 190 countries and 1,000+ methods.
- April 2026 SAMA PTSP certification and Tap Payments give Yuno regulated GCC distribution.
- Yuno's AI-native routing recovered $5 billion and lifted authorization rates roughly 5%.
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Yuno raises $45 million Series B to scale its global payments operating system. Payments infrastructure company Yuno has raised $45 million in a Series B round led by Global PayTech Ventures, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global, QuantumLight Capital, Monashees, Kaszek and Endeavor Catalyst. The round also drew in regional strategic investors including Rasmal Ventures, backed by the Qatar Investment Authority, and Further Ventures, an Abu Dhabi based sovereign backed firm. Yuno announced the raise on August 12, 2026 and says the money will go into research and development, next generation payments technology, and further expansion of its global infrastructure. Yuno describes itself as an AI-native operating system for global payments, which in practical terms means it sits between a merchant and the many payment providers that merchant needs to work with. What Yuno actually does. Any business selling across borders quickly runs into the same problem. Each market has its own preferred payment rails, its own acquirers, its own fraud rules and its own failure modes. Integrating each one separately is expensive, and switching between them is worse. Yuno's pitch is a single integration layer that routes transactions intelligently across providers. The company says that over the past year it recovered more than $5 billion in transaction volume that would otherwise have failed for merchants on its network, lifted authorisation rates by roughly 5 percent, and saved customers more than $500 million in processing costs. Those are company reported figures rather than independently audited numbers, and they should be treated accordingly. The full announcement is available via GlobeNewswire, and PYMNTS covered the round as well. Where the money goes next. Yuno has flagged three directions for the new capital. It is extending the platform into in-person payments, moving beyond the online checkout it started with. It is building what it calls agentic commerce capabilities, which points at transactions initiated by AI agents rather than humans clicking a button. And it is scaling its presence in the United States market. The Gulf angle is worth noting separately. The raise follows Yuno Payments Arabia receiving Payment Technical Service Provider certification from the Saudi Central Bank in April 2026, and a partnership with Tap Payments that opened local rails including Mada, KNET and NAPS across all six GCC countries. That combination of a regulator certification plus local rail access is what actually lets a payments company operate in the region, and it explains why Qatari and Emirati investors joined the round. What this signals for founders and freelancers. A few things are worth pulling out of this deal. Infrastructure is where the durable businesses are. Yuno is not a consumer brand. Most people who benefit from it will never hear its name. That is often the pattern with payments, logistics and identity companies, and it is a useful reminder for founders that the least glamorous layer of a market is frequently the most defensible. Payment failure is a real and under-appreciated cost. The headline claim in this round is not that Yuno made payments cheaper. It is that Yuno stopped payments from failing. If you sell internationally, whether as an agency, a SaaS product or a store, the transactions that silently fail at checkout are usually a bigger leak than your processing fees. Agentic commerce is being funded before it exists at scale. Multiple companies are now building for a world where software agents complete purchases. Whether that arrives quickly or slowly, the infrastructure is being laid now, and it will shape how online selling works for everyone downstream. For anyone in Pakistan or the wider region building a business that takes payment from international clients, the underlying trend matters more than the individual round. Cross border payment rails are getting denser and more automated. That reduces one of the oldest practical barriers to selling your work globally. Sharing is caring!
Qatar's home-grown VC fund bets on the rails under Gulf checkouts. Rasmal Ventures joined a $45m Series B for Yuno, the payments firm that made Doha its Gulf base and cleared the Saudi regulator in April. AI Snapshot The TL;DR: what matters, fast. Qatar's Rasmal Ventures joined a $45 million Series B for Yuno, a Colombian payments infrastructure company that now runs its Gulf business from Doha. Global PayTech Ventures led; Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global and Endeavor Catalyst were among the existing backers taking part. Yuno's local entity was certified as a Payment Technical Service Provider by the Saudi Central Bank in April 2026, and partnerships with Tap Payments and Tabby opened domestic Gulf rails. Rasmal's debut fund targets $100 million and was the first commitment from the Qatar Investment Authority's $1 billion fund-of-funds programme. Rasmal Ventures, the first independent venture capital firm raised inside Qatar, has taken a position in a $45 million Series B for Yuno, a payments infrastructure company headquartered in Colombia that now runs its Gulf operations out of Doha. The round was led by Global PayTech Ventures. Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global, QuantumLight Capital, Monashees, Kaszek and Endeavor Catalyst also took part, alongside two other regional investors, Further Ventures and GrowthX Capital. The size of the cheque is not the interesting part. The direction of travel is. A Latin American infrastructure company picked a Gulf state as its regional base, and the region's newest fund used its balance sheet to make that choice harder to reverse. What Doha actually bought into. Yuno was founded in 2022 by Juan Pablo Ortega and Julian Nunez, and it sits in an unglamorous layer of the payments stack. A merchant integrates once, and Yuno handles the connections to more than 1,000 payment methods across 190 countries, along with routing, fraud screening, identity checks and settlement. The company calls the product an AI-native payments operating system, which in practice means routing and fraud decisions are model-driven rather than rule tables maintained by hand. The figures it puts behind that are operational rather than promotional. It says it recovered $5 billion of transaction volume over the past year that would otherwise have failed, lifted authorisation rates by around 5 per cent, and took roughly $500 million out of customers' processing costs. It added 150 integrations in the last twelve months, taking the total past 460, and says it is on a path to process $100 billion a year within a year. Chief executive Ortega was direct about what the money is for. "Most companies raise a Series B to buy growth. We're raising ours to meet our customers' growth, and extend our lead, with a clear line to profitability in the year ahead," he said. A company that expects to be profitable inside twelve months cannot spend much of a $45 million round subsidising new markets. The Gulf leg is the part that matters. Yuno has spent most of the past year assembling Gulf permissions and rails. In April its local entity, Yuno Payments Arabia, was certified as a Payment Technical Service Provider by the Saudi Central Bank, the licence category that lets a technical processor sit in the transaction flow without holding customer funds. A partnership with Tap Payments opened domestic schemes including Mada in Saudi Arabia, KNET in Kuwait and NAPS in Qatar across all six Gulf Cooperation Council states. A separate agreement with Tabby connected the platform to the buy-now-pay-later base Tabby claims across Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. That sequence explains the Qatari money. Rasmal partner Soumaya Ben Beya Dridje framed the thesis in a line: "The hardest problem in payments is being genuinely local everywhere, and Yuno has solved it at global scale." Being local means scheme membership, settlement accounts, regulator relationships and dispute handling in each market, and almost none of it generalises across borders. Why a Colombian company needed a Qatari cheque. Rasmal is small by Gulf standards, deliberately. Its debut vehicle, Rasmal Innovation Fund I, targets $100 million and announced a first close above $30 million, and it was named the first commitment out of the Qatar Investment Authority's $1 billion fund-of-funds programme. For a fund that size, writing into a round led by a specialist paytech investor buys regional relevance rather than ownership. The trade runs both ways. Qatar's fintech ambitions are held back by the same constraint that holds back Kuwait and Bahrain: a domestic market too small to justify building the infrastructure locally. Importing a platform that already works across 190 countries, and giving it a commercial reason to keep staff in Doha, is cheaper than funding a national equivalent from scratch. * Rasmal, Further Ventures and GrowthX Capital came in as strategic regional investors rather than as lead. * Yuno's Gulf permissions now cover technical processing in Saudi Arabia and domestic scheme access across the GCC. * The company's stated route to profitability sits inside the next financial year, which caps how much of this round can go on new-market subsidy. What to watch next. Three things will show whether the Doha hub is real. Headcount is the first: a regional office that stays at a handful of commercial staff is a sales post, not a hub. The second is whether Yuno wins a named Gulf enterprise merchant of its own, rather than serving Gulf traffic for global brands already on the platform. The third is licensing depth, because technical service provider status is the shallowest permission in the stack and the better margin sits closer to acquiring. For founders in the region there is a plainer read, and the regional coverage of the round makes it visible. The cheque went to an operator that had already done the regulatory work in Saudi Arabia, and it came from a fund that needed to prove it could sit at a table with Andreessen Horowitz. Both facts describe what regional capital is currently buying. Editorial Team The Intelligence Desk is powered by a handful of global experts who focus on clarity over hype, pairing local insight with a global perspective. From policy to pop culture, and from boardrooms to backstreets, the Asia Intelligence Crew delivers stories that reveal AI's real impact across the region: smart, human, and distinctly Asian.
Yuno raises US$45 million Series B with Gulf investor backing. Yuno says the funding will support its path to profitability, alongside expansion into in-person payments and agentic commerce. Get the hottest Fintech Singapore News once a month in your Inbox Yuno has raised a US$45 million Series B round led by Global PayTech Ventures, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global, QuantumLight Capital, Monashees, Kaszek, and regional investors Rasmal Ventures, Further Ventures, and GrowthX Capital. The Colombia-founded payments infrastructure company said the funding will accelerate its path to profitability and fund continued product expansion, including agentic commerce and its banking-sector business. Yuno connects businesses to more than 1,000 payment methods and 460+ integrations across over 190 countries through a single API, with built-in intelligent routing, one-click checkout, and AI-powered fraud detection. Over the past year, the company said it recovered more than US$5 billion in otherwise-failed transaction volume for merchants, lifted authorisation rates by roughly 5%, and saved customers over US$500 million in processing costs. Yuno's customers include McDonald's, NetEase Games, GoFundMe, inDrive, and Rappi, and the company said it is on track to process US$100 billion in annual transaction volume within the next 12 months. The round's regional investors underscore Yuno's momentum in the Gulf. The financing follows Yuno Payments Arabia's Payment Technical Service Provider certification from the Saudi Central Bank in April, a partnership with Tap Payments that opened local payment rails including Mada, KNET, and NAPS across all six GCC countries, and a buy-now-pay-later partnership with Tabby serving more than 25 million shoppers across Saudi Arabia and the UAE. "The hardest problem in payments is being genuinely local everywhere," said Soumaya Ben Beya Dridje, Partner at Rasmal Ventures, a Qatar Investment Authority-backed fund. She said the Gulf's payments market is growing quickly and that Yuno pairs global ambition with the financial discipline the region's new trade corridors need. Juan Pablo Ortega, Co-Founder and CEO of Yuno, said the company is raising the round to meet customer growth and extend its lead, with a clear line to profitability over the coming year, crediting AI for changing the economics of building payments infrastructure compared to earlier generations of players. Building a regional hub. Yuno has established Qatar as its regional hub for the Gulf Cooperation Council, building on its Tap Payments and Tabby partnerships and its Saudi regulatory certification. Rasmal Ventures and Further Ventures, a sovereign-backed investment firm based in Abu Dhabi, join GrowthX Capital, backed by entrepreneur Hamad Al-Hajri, as regional backers of the round. ACI Worldwide has ranked the Middle East as the world's fastest-growing real-time payments market. Catch our interview with Yuno's Co-Founder and CEO, Juan Pablo Ortega on How Gaming Giants are Redefining the Experience of Paying down below: Featured image: Edited by Fintech News Singapore based on an image by meshcube via Magnific.
Rasmal Ventures participates in Yuno's $45 million round. By: rootdata | 2026/08/12 12:21:50 * Rasmal Ventures, a Qatari investment firm, has invested in a $45 million Series B round for Yuno, a Colombia-based payment infrastructure company, coinciding with the company's selection of Qatar as its regional headquarters for operations in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. * Rasmal participated in the round alongside GrowthX Capital and Further Ventures, while Global PayTech Ventures led the round with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global, and other investors. * Yuno was founded in 2022 by Juan Pablo Ortega and Julián Núñez, connecting businesses to over 1,000 payment methods in 190 countries through a unified API. * Yuno has expanded its presence in the Gulf by obtaining regulatory approval in Saudi Arabia, along with partnerships with Tap Payments and Tabby. Rasmal Ventures, the first institutional-backed investment company in Qatar trusted by sovereign wealth funds including the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), today confirmed its investment in Yuno's $45 million Series B funding round. Yuno is the AI-powered operating system for payments and financial services globally, powering the financial infrastructure for major commercial enterprises, banks, and digital wallets. The round was led by Global PayTech Ventures, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global, QuantumLight Capital, Monashees, Kaszek, and Endeavor Catalyst. Rasmal joined as a strategic regional investor alongside GrowthX Capital, one of Rasmal's investors, and Further Ventures, a sovereign-backed investment firm based in Abu Dhabi. For Rasmal, this investment represents a direct expression of the company's business model, which focuses on providing real value to businesses operating in the GCC before injecting capital, rather than merely writing checks. This positions Rasmal as a strategic regional partner for entrepreneurs, both locally and globally. Yuno achieved this before the round: it established Qatar as a regional headquarters and launchpad for the region, and Yuno Payments Arabia obtained a payment technology service provider license from the Saudi Central Bank in April 2026. It also partnered with Tap Payments to open local payment channels, including Mada, KNET, and NAPS, in the six GCC countries, and formed a buy now, pay later partnership with Tabby, connecting the platform to over 25 million shoppers in Saudi Arabia and the UAE. The timing here is significant. ACI Worldwide classifies the Middle East as the fastest-growing instant payments market in the world, a market whose growth today extends along the same trade corridors that connect the Gulf to Asia, through the wallets, channels, and shoppers that Yuno already serves. "The hardest part of payments is being truly local in every market, which is what Yuno has succeeded in achieving on a global scale, and that's precisely why its model resonates in our region," said Soumaya Ben Bia Dredji, a partner at Rasmal Ventures. "The Gulf today is one of the fastest-growing payments markets in the world, and its future extends along its new trade corridors, which are the wallets, channels, and shoppers themselves that Yuno connects. We invested because Juan Pablo and his team are building the infrastructure needed for these corridors, and because they combine global ambition with real financial discipline. This is a rare combination, and it's exactly what we invest in." Hamad Al-Hajri, founder of GrowthX Capital, added, "I have known founder Juan Pablo since his journey with Rappi, the first Colombian company to surpass a billion-dollar valuation. I believe he is building his next billion-dollar company with Yuno, but this time from the GCC countries, with Qatar as its regional headquarters." Yuno enables businesses to connect, through a single API, to over 1,000 payment methods and more than 460 integrations in over 190 countries, with smart transaction routing, one-click payments, and AI-powered fraud detection. Over the past year, the company recovered more than $5 billion in transaction volume that would have failed for merchants on its network, increased transaction approval rates by about 5 percent, and saved its clients over $500 million in processing costs. Global brands managing their payments through Yuno include McDonald's, NetEase Games, GoFundMe, inDrive, Rappi, and others. Juan Pablo Ortega, co-founder and CEO of Yuno, stated, "Most companies raise Series B funding to buy growth, while we are raising it to keep up with our customers' growth and expand the gap we are achieving, with a clear path to profitability over the next year. Being local everywhere is one of the hardest challenges in payments, and those who start working on it today are at least two years behind." This investment is part of Rasmal's program to build a two-way access between Gulf markets and global innovation, across the Middle East, North Africa, Turkey, and Asia. This content is provided for general informational purposes only and doesn't constitute financial, investment, legal, or tax advice. Any events, rewards, online promotions, or related information mentioned herein should not be considered a recommendation, solicitation, or invitation to purchase, sell, trade, or otherwise deal in any crypto assets. Crypto assets are highly volatile and may result in loss. 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Yuno raises $45 million Series B to scale the ai-native operating system of Global payments and financial services. * 1 hr ago * The round, led by Global PayTech Ventures, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global, QuantumLight Capital, Monashees, Kaszek, Rasmal Ventures, GrowthX Capital, and Further Ventures, is funding Yuno's path to profitability. * The raise answers growing customer demand and funds continued product expansion, from agentic commerce to accelerating momentum in the banking sector. * The Colombia-founded company is on a trajectory to process $100 billion in annual transaction volume within the next 12 months, serving customers including McDonald's, NetEase Games, GoFundMe, inDrive, and Rappi. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Yuno, AI-native operating system of global payments and financial services, powering the financial infrastructure of enterprise merchants, banks, and wallets, today announced a $45 million Series B round led by Global PayTech Ventures, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global, QuantumLight Capital, the AI-driven venture firm founded by Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky, Monashees, Kaszek, and Endeavor Catalyst, among others. Strategic regional investors Rasmal Ventures, Qatar's first investment firm backed by the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), bridging Gulf capital with global innovation, Further Ventures, the sovereign-backed investment firm based in Abu Dhabi, and GrowthX Capital, backed by tech investor and entrepreneur Hamad Al-Hajri, also participated in the round. The capital will be used to accelerate Yuno's path to profitability and cement its position as the category leader in global financial infrastructure. The funding will be directed toward research and development, next-generation payments technology, and the continued expansion of Yuno's global infrastructure, serving as the payments backbone of enterprise companies across the world. Over the past year, Yuno recovered more than $5 billion in otherwise-failed transaction volume for merchants on its network, lifted authorization rates by ~5 percent, and saved customers more than $500 million in processing costs. In the same period, the company added 150 new integrations and deepened local coverage across every continent. Agnostic by design, Yuno connects businesses through a single API to over 1,000 payment methods and more than 460 integrations across 190+ countries, with intelligent routing, one-click checkout, and AI-powered fraud detection built in. In practice, that means a business can switch on a new market in a matter of days. Few industries test that promise like gaming. Take one of the world's largest gaming publishers: when a new title launches, players arrive from dozens of countries in the same hour and pay with their preferred local method: wallets in Southeast Asia, vouchers in Latin America, carrier billing in the Middle East. Yuno accepts all of it through one integration, so each launch day runs smoothly and every dollar is captured. For global enterprises, the network consolidates every market into a single integration, layering fraud prevention, KYC/KYB, and real-time optimization, so acceptance improves and routing gets faster with every transaction. The company, founded in Colombia in 2022, increasingly partners with banks and payment providers that white-label its technology, including dLocal, the NASDAQ-listed cross-border payments platform, and Prosa, Mexico's largest payments processing network, letting a single contract serve an entire market. Product expansion is poised to be a core use of this funding: customers are asking Yuno to cover more of their stack, and the company is responding by extending the platform to in-person payments, deepening its agentic commerce capabilities, and scaling its presence in the United States. "Most companies raise a Series B to buy growth. We're raising ours to meet our customers' growth, and extend our lead, with a clear line to profitability in the year ahead," said Juan Pablo Ortega, Co-Founder and CEO of Yuno. "AI has changed the economics of building this company. We grow faster and operate leaner than the generation of infrastructure players before us. Being local everywhere is the hardest problem in payments, and anyone starting on it today is at least two years behind. With this round we intend to consolidate that leadership on a truly global scale, with real financial discipline." The round's regional investors underscore Yuno's momentum across the Middle East. The financing follows Yuno Payments Arabia's Payment Technical Service Provider certification from the Saudi Central Bank in April 2026, a partnership with Tap Payments that opened local rails including Mada, KNET, and NAPS across all six Gulf Cooperation Council countries, and a buy-now-pay-later partnership with Tabby, which serves more than 25 million shoppers across Saudi Arabia and the UAE. ACI Worldwide ranks the Middle East as the world's fastest-growing real-time payments market. With Rasmal, Further, and Hamad Al-Hajri's GrowthX Capital, the region is now invested in Yuno's expansion into it. "The hardest problem in payments is being genuinely local everywhere, and Yuno has solved it at global scale, which is exactly why it resonates in our region," said Soumaya Ben Beya Dridje, Partner at Rasmal Ventures. "The Gulf is now one of the fastest-growing payments markets in the world, and its future runs along the region's new trade corridors, the same wallets, rails, and shoppers Yuno already connects. We invested because Juan Pablo and his team are building the infrastructure those corridors need, and because they pair that global ambition with real financial discipline. That combination is rare, and it's precisely what we back." "Since joining Yuno's board last fall, I've seen firsthand how Juan Pablo and his team are redefining payments infrastructure. Yuno combines global reach, local intelligence, and AI-driven execution to help customers increase global presence, authorization rates, reduce costs, and scale faster. I'm proud to support the team as it builds a leading global payments infrastructure company," said Javier Perez, Managing Partner of Global PayTech Ventures and board member of Yuno. About Yuno Yuno is the AI-native operating system of global payments and financial services, powering the financial infrastructure of enterprise merchants, banks, and wallets. Through one API, Yuno connects them to payins, payouts, fraud prevention, KYC/KYB, and stablecoins at global scale, so they can operate everywhere through a single integration. Agnostic by design, Yuno offers connectivity to 1,000+ payment methods and 460+ integrations in 190+ countries, optimizing acceptance rates, reducing costs, and strengthening security through specialized AI agents that learn from every transaction on the network. Global brands run their payments on Yuno, including McDonald's, NetEase Games, GoFundMe, inDrive, and Rappi. Banks, acquirers, PSPs, and wallets use Yuno to modernize their infrastructure without replacing core systems, and to prepare for the next generation of commerce, including agentic payments. Media Contact Kate Gundry 617-797-5174
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About Yuno
Industries
Data & Analytics
Enterprise Software
Fintech
Financial Services
Company Size
501-1,000
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$80M
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2022
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