Yuval Tal

Yuval Tal is an Israeli entrepreneur who founded the companies Borderfree and Payoneer.

born 1965Founding PayoneerFounding BorderfreeCo-founding Linguana

Occupation: entrepreneur
Education: Parsons School of Design, Tel Aviv University, Harvard University
Founded: Payoneer (2005)

Yuval Tal was born in 1965 in Israel

Yuval Tal was born in Israel in August 1965. He finished high school in Ramat HaSharon.

He served in the IDF as a Special Forces commando. He then earned a B.Sc. in mechanical engineering and an M.Sc. in biomedical engineering from Tel Aviv University.

Tal began his career as vice president of business development at Radware and later ran R-U-Sure Ltd. In 1999 he founded E4X, a cross-border e-commerce and payments company later called Borderfree, and was its CEO until 2005. Borderfree listed on NASDAQ in 2014.

In 2005 he founded Payoneer, an online payments company. He was its CEO until 2010 and then became its president. Payoneer went public in 2021 through a SPAC merger.

In 2020 he joined Team8 as fintech managing partner and later became an operating partner. In 2023 he co-founded Linguana with Oded Shafran, a company working on distribution, revenue and video localization for creators.