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Yuno's one-API payments bet: US$80M raised, US$150M valuation, path to profit
Colombian payments orchestrator Yuno bets merchants need one API for 1,000+ payment methods; DST, Tiger and a16z back the US$150M valuation
Yuno
What the business is
Payments orchestration platform: a single API and dashboard connecting merchants to more than 1,000 payment methods and 460 integrations across 190+ countries, with smart routing, one-click checkout and fraud tools
Starting capital：US$10M seed (2022); US$25M Series A (Mar 2024) at US$150M valuation; US$45M Series B (Aug 2026) — US$80M total
How it started
Founded in Bogotá in 2022 by Juan Pablo Ortega and Julián Nuñez, Yuno launched its product in October 2022 after a US$10M seed round that included Andreessen Horowitz. The founding bet: a multinational selling across Latin America has to collect dozens of currencies and payment methods from customers who often don't have credit cards, so it juggles half a dozen providers — and no single one covers the region.
What happened
By March 2024 Yuno had facilitated transactions in more than 40 countries and signed McDonald's, Rappi, Avianca and inDrive. DST Global Partners assembled a US$25M Series A at a US$150M valuation, joined by Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global, Kaszek and Monashees. The company opened offices in New York and Singapore, and by August 2026 it connected 1,000+ payment methods across 190+ countries, projecting US$100bn in annual transactions within 12 months.
How it ended up
Still running and scaling toward profitability. In August 2026 Yuno raised a US$45M Series B led by Global PayTech Ventures — with Tiger Global, a16z, Kaszek, Monashees, Endeavor Catalyst and Middle East funds — bringing total funding to US$80M, and said it had a route to profit the following year.
Background
A multinational selling across Latin America faces a mess: customers pay with PIX in Brazil, OXXO in Mexico, Nequi in Colombia, cash, wallets and cards, in multiple currencies. Yuno's founding bet, made in Bogotá in 2022 by Juan Pablo Ortega and Julián Nuñez, was that merchants would rather connect one orchestration layer than manage a dozen payment providers — and that the layer could even decide which route converts best.
Yuno launched its product in October 2022 after a US$10M seed that included Andreessen Horowitz, and deliberately aimed at large enterprises while most orchestrators chased small and medium businesses. The wedge worked: by March 2024, Yuno had facilitated transactions in 40+ countries and counted McDonald's, Rappi, Avianca and inDrive as clients, which convinced DST Global Partners to lead a US$25M Series A at a US$150M valuation with Tiger Global, a16z, Kaszek and Monashees.
The funding went into global reach — offices in New York and Singapore, expansion into Asia, Europe and Africa — while the platform kept adding payment methods and routing logic. By August 2026 Yuno said it connected more than 1,000 payment methods through 460 integrations in over 190 countries, and that its technology had recovered more than US$5bn in transactions that would otherwise have been rejected in the previous year.
The 2026 Series B of US$45M, led by Global PayTech Ventures with Tiger, a16z, Kaszek, Monashees, Endeavor Catalyst and Gulf funds, brought total funding to US$80M and was framed by Ortega not as buying growth but as responding to client growth. The company projected US$100bn in annual transactions within 12 months and said it had a route to profitability the following year.
What has to be true
- Payment fragmentation is structural in LatAm: dozens of local methods, currencies and cash-first customers make a single acquiring contract impossible
- Enterprises were the underserved segment — SMB-focused orchestrators couldn't build the global integrations McDonald's and Rappi required
- Smart routing and fraud tools turn orchestration from a cost item into a revenue tool: recovering US$5bn of would-be-rejected transactions pays for the platform
- Every integration and client adds data on conversion and fraud, compounding the moat with each deal
- The nearshoring and globalization of LatAm brands gave Yuno a ready-made expansion path into the US and Gulf markets
What can be applied
Rivals chased SMBs; Yuno built the enterprise-grade integrations multinationals needed. Each provider integration and client adds conversion data, compounding a moat every new deal widens.
Aftermath
As of September 2026 Yuno is still scaling, with its US$45M Series B earmarked for R&D, US infrastructure, in-person payments and AI tools; it earned Saudi Arabia's technical payment-service-provider certification in April 2026 and partnered with Gulf local payment methods. The stated test ahead is profitability, which the company says it expects in the next year, and sustaining the US$100bn annual-transaction projection without burning the round.
Sources
- 2-year-old LatAm fintech Yuno reaches $150M valuation with backing from DST Global Partners, Tiger, a16z
- Yuno atrae US$25 millones de inversionistas buscando expandirse a nivel global
- Yuno levanta US$45 millones en una ronda Serie B para acelerar su expansión global
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