Founder Profile
Yuval Tal
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Yuval Tal?
Yuval Tal is a founder of Payoneer, which was founded in 2005 with Yaniv Chechik.
- Company founded
- Payoneer
- Founded
- 2005
- Co-founders
- Yaniv Chechik
Background
Israeli entrepreneur who co-founded E4X, a cross-border e-commerce company, before starting Payoneer.
Founding Story
Yuval Tal founded Payoneer in 2005 after seeing how hard it was for companies to pay overseas contractors. He served as its first CEO before Scott Galit took over in 2010, and Payoneer later grew into a NASDAQ-listed cross-border payments company.
Yuval Tal was born in 1965. Education: Parsons School of Design; Tel Aviv University.
Tal was born in August 1965. He founded BorderFree in 1999, later joined Team8 as a fintech managing partner, and co-founded Linguana in 2023.