Case Study · FINTECH · YC S20

Volopay: From founding engineers to a long-term software and AI partner

Corporate cards and spend management across 6 countries.

The story

What Volopay needed, and what we built.

Volopay's first production version was built by Vishal and Ankit, now KUMO's co-founders, as its founding engineering team, before KUMO existed. They built the multi-currency corporate-card and spend platform, real-time card controls, and compliance for multiple Asian markets end-to-end. When KUMO launched, Volopay became a long-term client: the same engineers continued as Volopay's external software and AI partner, scaling the platform on demand as it grew to six countries and $31M+ raised. Today, AI agents built by the team handle transaction reconciliation, KYC, and document processing.

What we delivered

Six areas of production work.

Multi-currency card platform

Multi-currency corporate-card platform on Rails + Node + AWS, card issuance, transaction processing, and spend controls built for cross-border operations.

Cross-border compliance

KYC, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, and audit-trail generation across six jurisdictions with regulator-friendly reporting.

AI reconciliation agents

Production AI matching payments to invoices, flagging anomalies, classifying expenses, and routing exceptions to finance teams.

Real-time card controls

Per-card limits, merchant-category controls, instant freeze/unfreeze, and FX policy enforcement at the spend point.

Production observability

Distributed tracing across services, fraud-monitoring dashboards, drift alerts as the model and traffic mix evolved through scale.

Founding build, then a long-term partner

The founders built Volopay's V1 before KUMO existed. Once KUMO launched, Volopay became a long-term client and the same team continued as its external software and AI partner, scaling on demand rather than handing off.

Highlights

Project highlights.

$31M+ Raised by client
YC S20 Y Combinator accepted
6 Countries operational
Long-term KUMO client and partner

Stack

What it was built with.

"KUMO are our go-to consultants when it comes to solving deep fintech technical architecture problems and building custom AI tools."

Rajesh Raikwar

CTO, Volopay (YC S20)

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