# Oded Zehavi

> Oded Zehavi is the co-founder and CEO of Mesh, a corporate travel and expense platform. After leadership roles at PayPal, Payoneer and Kaymera Technologies, he co-founded Mesh in 2018 and helped steer it through a pandemic-era pivot from payments toward finance automation. His recurring idea is simple but demanding: company spending should carry enough context and policy at the moment of purchase that finance teams no longer have to reconstruct the truth at month-end.

- **Role:** CEO and Co-founder at Mesh
- **Organizations:** Mesh, Kaymera Technologies, Payoneer, PayPal, AU10TIX, Fiverr, CreditStacks, Rewire, Comverse EMEA, Leumi Card
- **Education:** BSc in Computer Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- **Known for:** Led the launch of PayPal services in the Middle East and Africa., Managed sales, marketing and product as Chief Revenue Officer at Payoneer., Co-founded Mesh in 2018 and led its pandemic-era product pivot toward corporate spend automation.

## Career timeline

- **2006** — Served as Director and Head of the Messaging Sales Group at Comverse EMEA.
- **2007** — Became Executive Vice President of International Business at Leumi Card.
- **2012** — Served as PayPal's Director of Global Business Development and led the rollout of PayPal services in the Middle East and Africa.
- **2013** — Became Chief Revenue Officer at Payoneer, with responsibility across sales, marketing and product.
- **2015** — Became COO of Kaymera Technologies.
- **2018** — Co-founded Mesh Payments with Eran Katoni and became CEO.
- **2020** — Led Mesh through a pandemic-era pivot toward spend management for distributed companies.
- **2022** — Mesh raised a $60 million Series C led by Alpha Wave, bringing reported total funding to $123 million.
- **2023** — Mesh expanded into integrated travel management and Zehavi presented the company at Nasdaq MarketSite.
- **2026** — Mesh launched its Orchestration Layer, designed to unify context across booking tools, payment networks and travel activity.

## Achievements

- Led the launch of PayPal services in the Middle East and Africa.
- Managed sales, marketing and product as Chief Revenue Officer at Payoneer.
- Co-founded Mesh in 2018 and led its pandemic-era product pivot toward corporate spend automation.
- Raised a $60 million Series C for Mesh in 2022, bringing reported total funding to $123 million.
- Helped Mesh reach more than 1,000 customers and close to $1 billion in annualized payment volume by 2022.
- Served as a board member or adviser to fintech and technology companies including AU10TIX, Rewire, Fiverr and CreditStacks.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Mesh announced an MCP connection intended to let AI assistants query live company spend data in natural language; Zehavi described it as another step toward invisible T&E.
- **2026-07** — Zehavi said Mesh had been selected by Visa for its Payments Forum as an agentic commerce partner.
- **2026-05** — Mesh launched its Orchestration Layer to connect booking tools, payment networks, calendars, invoices and travel activity.
- **2026-01** — Zehavi published an analysis of Capital One's announced acquisition of Brex on LinkedIn.
- **2025-05** — Mesh announced a partnership with Zaggle to support global clients operating in India and give Zaggle customers access to Mesh's global platform.

## Links

- Website: https://meshpayments.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/odedzehavi
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/meshpayments
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/meshpayments

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Last updated: 2026-08-27