Yuval Tal
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Yuval Tal

Israeli entrepreneur

Yuval Tal (Hebrew: יובל טל; born August 1965) is an Israeli entrepreneur. He founded BorderFree in 1999 and Payoneer in 2005, later joined Team8 as a fintech managing partner, and co-founded Linguana in 2023.2

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Born Aug 1965.1

Companies

Early life and education

  • 2007 to 2008The New School3
  • 2014 to 2020Harvard University Master of Business Administration; business3
  • Date not recordedParsons School of Design3
  • Date not recordedTel Aviv University3

Tal was born in 1965 in Israel and was a former Israeli Special Forces commando in the Israeli Defense Forces. He earned a B.Sc. in mechanical engineering and an M.Sc. in biomedical engineering from Tel Aviv University.

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Career

Occupation: entrepreneur.5

In 1999, Tal founded Borderfree (initially known as E4X), a cross-border e-commerce and payments company. He served as the company's CEO from 1999 to 2005. Borderfree went public on the NASDAQ (BRDR) in 2014 and was later acquired by Global-e.

Tal founded Payoneer in 2005, and served as its CEO until 2010, later becoming the company's president. In 2021, Payoneer went public following a SPAC merger.

In 2020, Yuval Tal joined Team8 as the Fintech Managing Partner, later becoming an Operating Partner. In 2023, Tal co-founded Linguana with Oded Shafran, a company focused on global distribution and monetisation for creators, including multilingual video localisation.

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Personal life

  • BornAug 1965, Israel6
  • CitizenshipIsrael7