Vienna-based fintech Talentir has raised €4 million in seed funding to develop AI-powered payout systems for platforms that pay creators, freelancers, and contractors worldwide.
The funding round was led by Redstone VC, with support from Inovia Capital, whose partners include Patrick Pichette, former CFO of Google, and eight other investors.
Talentir currently processes daily payouts in the millions with a team of just six people and aims to reach €100 million in annual payout volume next.
Before founding Talentir, Lukas Steiner managed nightclubs and, together with co-founder Johannes Kares, created a marketplace for fractional YouTube video shares. Investors liked their understanding that platforms paying many people face big operational and compliance challenges with outbound payments.
“Accounting, reconciliation, cross-border payments — this last mile of finance was always taken for granted. It was always assumed it had to be expensive. But the tools we have now — the AI, the stablecoin rails — make it possible to genuinely rethink it,” Steiner tells Tech Funding News in an exclusive interview.
