Payments orchestration specialist Yuno on 12 August 2026 announced a $45 million Series B led by Global PayTech Ventures, capping a two-year sprint that has taken the Colombia-founded company from Latin American challenger to Fortune 500-grade infrastructure vendor for McDonald's, Uber, NetEase Games, GoFundMe, inDrive and Rappi.
A cap table built for global rails
Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global, QuantumLight Capital — the AI-driven vehicle founded by Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky — Monashees, Kaszek and Endeavor Catalyst joined the round. Gulf sovereigns and family offices anchored the strategic layer: Qatar Investment Authority-backed Rasmal Ventures, Abu Dhabi's Further Ventures and GrowthX Capital, the firm led by tech investor Hamad Al-Hajri, all wrote checks. The financing follows Yuno Payments Arabia's Saudi Central Bank certification in April and Tap Payments partnerships that unlocked Mada, KNET and NAPS across every Gulf Cooperation Council country.
What the money buys
CEO Juan Pablo Ortega framed the round as growth-with-discipline: "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." The capital will be steered into R&D and next-generation payments technology, deeper agentic-commerce capabilities and a bigger US footprint. Yuno says it will process $100 billion in annual transaction volume within the next 12 months, up from roughly $500 million in recovered failed transactions across its network in the past year alone.
An operating system, not a gateway
Yuno's pitch is that payments have caught up with the platform era. Its Payments Concierge agent monitors merchant stacks in real time via Slack or WhatsApp; NOVA AI and Smart Routing recover failed authorisations; and network tokenisation, KYC/KYB and stablecoin rails ride the same API. That single-integration story is why Yuno has been closing white-label deals with dLocal, the NASDAQ-listed cross-border processor, and Mexican network Prosa. The Gulf, LATAM and North America motion mirrors the pattern that took CodeRabbit to a $143M Series C the same week and Skan.ai to $63M in Series C — enterprise AI stacks that promise measurable margin capture rather than headline-grabbing model demos.
Why now
Yuno's $45M Series B lands at a moment when the wider AI-infrastructure trade — from Databricks' $5 billion round at a $190 billion valuation to sovereign compute deals in the Middle East — is priced for perfection. By binding regional capital to a Latin-American AI-native fintech that is already local everywhere, Yuno gets the war chest without the mega-round dilution.
Reporting based on coverage from GlobeNewswire, TechCrunch, FintechFutures, Manila Times and Fintech Global.