Case Study · FINTECH · YC S20

Volopay: Building a $30M YC fintech from V0

Corporate cards and spend management across 6 countries.

The story

What Volopay needed, and what we built.

Volopay's founders needed to build a corporate-card and spend-management platform with multi-currency support, real-time card controls, and compliance for multiple Asian markets. Hiring in-house would have burned through their seed runway. KUMO's team built the first production version end-to-end and stayed on as the engineering partner through the platform's growth to 6 countries. Today, AI agents we built 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.

Engineering partnership through scale

Three-year partnership from V0 through to $30M raised and six countries operational, not a hand-off-and-leave engagement.

Highlights

Project highlights.

$30M Raised by client
YC S20 Y Combinator accepted
6 Countries operational
3 yrs Engineering partnership
"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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