Tenity joins Talentir’s €4M round led by Redstone, Shapers, and Inovia to back AI-powered payout infrastructure for companies paying creators, freelancers, and external teams globally.
Vienna/Zurich, June 25, 2026 – Tenity joins Talentir’s €4M round led by Redstone, Shapers, and Inovia to back AI-powered payout infrastructure for companies paying creators, freelancers, and external teams globally.
We’re excited to announce our investment in Talentir, which has closed a €4 million round led by Redstone, Shapers, and Inovia — a clear validation of the thesis we’re backing: that global payout infrastructure is overdue for a fundamental rebuild. Talentir is doing exactly that, combining traditional payment rails, stablecoin settlement, and AI-powered automation into a single compliance-ready platform for companies paying creators, freelancers, and external teams worldwide.
“Many companies today have a clear mandate not only to test AI, but to bring it into operational processes. We help finance teams put that mandate into practice. Our AI takes over the most time-consuming steps in the payout process and turns payouts from a manual month-end closing topic into a scalable finance process.”
Lukas Steiner, CEO and Co-Founder of Talentir shared.
He added, “Companies that work globally with creators, freelancers, and external teams need financial processes that scale with their business. As Merchant of Record, we take on key payment, compliance, and settlement processes and use AI to automate the most time-consuming steps in the payout process. This turns payouts from an operational burden into a competitive advantage.”
Three things drove our conviction on Talentir:
- Global payouts is a massive, expensive problem that nobody has fully solved until now. Cross-border payments lose businesses billions annually to fees, delays, and broken infrastructure and no one has fixed it at scale.
- Stablecoin rails that actually work in practice, powering a product any finance team can adopt today. The technology is at the frontier, but the product looks like the financial tooling CFOs already trust. That combination of real innovation with zero friction to adopt is exceptionally rare.
- Founders who execute, traction that proves it, and a customer pipeline that shows the market was ready and waiting. The team has already shipped, sold, and grown. Early traction and a strong pipeline don’t just signal promise, they confirm that the market existed and this team is the one to capture it.
Ask any finance leader dealing with global payouts what they’d fix with a magic wand. Then go look at what Lukas and Johannes built. DeFi in the back, seamlessly plugged into your existing stack up front, and AI making the whole thing feel like magic. Feels inevitable this becomes the global standard.
said Oliver Sjostedt – Principal, UK & Nordics Investment Lead, Tenity
This round is a strong signal that B2B fintech built on real operational pain attracts serious capital. Talentir is already processing double-digit million payout volumes, and with this funding they’re accelerating international expansion and deepening their AI automation layer. We’re proud to be joining Lukas, Johannes, and the Talentir team at this pivotal moment, and we look forward to supporting what comes next.
“Talentir is building the infrastructure for global payouts that works faster, more cost-effectively, and with more automation than traditional banking rails. Stablecoins are a key building block for this: they can lower transaction fees, reduce FX costs, and significantly accelerate settlement”
stated Johannes Kares, CTO and co-founder of Talentir.
About Talentir
Talentir is building the infrastructure for the next generation of global payouts. Companies use Talentir to pay creators, freelancers, and external teams around the world faster, more cost-effectively, and compliantly. The platform combines traditional payment rails, stablecoin settlement, and AI-powered automation in one system, reducing manual work for finance teams. In Switzerland, Talentir is a member of a self-regulatory organization (SRO). This membership enables Talentir to offer customers a reliable foundation for international payouts in traditional currencies and stablecoins. Talentir was founded by Lukas Steiner (CEO) and Johannes Kares (CTO) and has offices in Vienna and Zurich.
About Tenity
Tenity is a global innovation powerhouse shaping the future of finance and technology. With hubs in Zurich, Singapore, Tallinn, Madrid, London, and Istanbul, Tenity blends venture capital, innovation partnerships and global ecosystem access to create value that compounds.
Through its unique hybrid model, Tenity helps ambitious founders grow, supports corporates in making innovation actionable, and gives investors early access to high-potential deal flow. Since launch, Tenity has partnered with 65+ leading institutions, supported 1,600+ startups, and runs innovation programs in over 15 countries. Across continents and industries, Tenity connects what’s next and backs those bold enough to build it.
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