GCC based Yuno for AI payments raises $45 million
Yuno, AI-native operating system of global payments and financial services, serving the financial infrastructure of enterprise merchants, banks, and wallets, announced that it raised 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, including strategic regional investors Rasmal Ventures, Qatar’s first investment firm backed by the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), Further Ventures, the sovereign-backed investment firm based in Abu Dhabi, and GrowthX Capital, backed by tech investor and entrepreneur Hamad Al-Hajri,
As per the announcement, 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 company will use the funds towards research, next generation payment technology and its expansion strategy.
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.
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.
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.”
