# $30M to build payments for AI agents

> Today we're excited to announce Natural's $30M Series A to build payments for AI agents.

- Author: Kahlil Lalji
- Published: July 20, 2026
- Category: Natural
- Canonical: https://www.natural.com/blog/natural-series-a

Excited to announce that Natural has raised a $30M Series A led by Kirsten Green at Forerunner, with continued participation by all major investors. The round was raised when the company was 193 days old and brings Natural’s total funding to over $40M.

The round was supported by Human Capital, Abstract, Genius Ventures, Torch Capital, Restive, SV Angel, Darragh Buckley <span class="md-secondary">(CEO of Increase)</span>, Pablo Palafox <span class="md-secondary">(CEO of HappyRobot)</span>, Paul Klein IV <span class="md-secondary">(CEO of Browserbase)</span>, Akshay Kothari <span class="md-secondary">(Co-founder of Notion)</span>, Henri Stern and Max Segall <span class="md-secondary">(CEO and COO of Privy)</span>, Pete Kooman <span class="md-secondary">(GP of Y Combinator)</span>, Dylan Babbs <span class="md-secondary">(CTO of Profound)</span>, Art Levy <span class="md-secondary">(CBO of Brex)</span>, Nichole Wischoff <span class="md-secondary">(Founder of Wischoff Ventures)</span>, Jake and Logan Paul <span class="md-secondary">(GPs of Antifund)</span>, and others.

Natural is building the foundational payments stack for AI agents.

Agents will execute a majority of global payment volume over the next decade. The question isn't whether agents become financial actors. It's who will build the infrastructure that allows them to transact on a global scale while remaining compliant, auditable, and secure. That is why we’re building Natural.

Today, six Natural products are live, with three more rolling out over the coming months and four more slated for Q4.

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  <div class="md-product-row">
    <span class="md-product-num">1</span>
    <span class="md-product-name">Wallets</span>
    <span class="md-tag md-tag-live">Live</span>
    <span class="md-product-desc">FDIC-insured² wallets for agents.</span>
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  <div class="md-product-row">
    <span class="md-product-num">2</span>
    <span class="md-product-name">Vaults</span>
    <span class="md-tag md-tag-live">Live</span>
    <span class="md-product-desc">One-way accounts for agents to move money in, never out</span>
  </div>
  <div class="md-product-row">
    <span class="md-product-num">3</span>
    <span class="md-product-name">Pay</span>
    <span class="md-tag md-tag-live">Live</span>
    <span class="md-product-desc">Send money from agent, business, or consumer.</span>
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  <div class="md-product-row">
    <span class="md-product-num">4</span>
    <span class="md-product-name">Request</span>
    <span class="md-tag md-tag-live">Live</span>
    <span class="md-product-desc">Request money from agent, business, or consumer.</span>
  </div>
  <div class="md-product-row">
    <span class="md-product-num">5</span>
    <span class="md-product-name">Transfer</span>
    <span class="md-tag md-tag-live">Live</span>
    <span class="md-product-desc">Move funds between internal and external accounts.</span>
  </div>
  <div class="md-product-row">
    <span class="md-product-num">6</span>
    <span class="md-product-name">Connect</span>
    <span class="md-tag md-tag-live">Live</span>
    <span class="md-product-desc">Build a platform or marketplace experience on top of Natural.</span>
  </div>
  <div class="md-product-row">
    <span class="md-product-num">7</span>
    <span class="md-product-name">Voice</span>
    <span class="md-tag md-tag-soon">Soon</span>
    <span class="md-product-desc">Collect PCI information like card details over the phone.</span>
  </div>
  <div class="md-product-row">
    <span class="md-product-num">8</span>
    <span class="md-product-name">Accept</span>
    <span class="md-tag md-tag-soon">Soon</span>
    <span class="md-product-desc">Payment processing. Turn your agent into a merchant.</span>
  </div>
  <div class="md-product-row">
    <span class="md-product-num">9</span>
    <span class="md-product-name">Cards</span>
    <span class="md-tag md-tag-soon">Soon</span>
    <span class="md-product-desc">Issue debit and charge cards for your agents.</span>
  </div>
  <div class="md-product-row">
    <span class="md-product-num">10</span>
    <span class="md-product-name">Charge</span>
    <span class="md-tag md-tag-q4">Q4</span>
    <span class="md-product-desc">Per-API-call billing built on top of Natural’s wallet product.</span>
  </div>
  <div class="md-product-row">
    <span class="md-product-num">11</span>
    <span class="md-product-name">Credit</span>
    <span class="md-tag md-tag-q4">Q4</span>
    <span class="md-product-desc">Issue lines of credit for your agent to use.</span>
  </div>
  <div class="md-product-row">
    <span class="md-product-num">12</span>
    <span class="md-product-name">Direct</span>
    <span class="md-tag md-tag-q4">Q4</span>
    <span class="md-product-desc">Call a specific payment rail directly at agent runtime.</span>
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  <div class="md-product-row">
    <span class="md-product-num">13</span>
    <span class="md-product-name">Billing</span>
    <span class="md-tag md-tag-q4">Q4</span>
    <span class="md-product-desc">Success based billing for agents.</span>
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We made a bet on agentic payments a year ago, when no one was talking about it. We knew that we needed to own that entire stack. Natural builds and operates the primitives directly: ledgering, money movement, multi-bank settlement, multi-currency, fraud & compliance, agent identity & observability, and more.

Today, Natural serves companies across agent-native commerce, restaurants, hospitality, property management, consumer finance, business operations, and more. Some are creating entirely new payment flows. Others are turning agents into merchants or enabling them to move and manage money on behalf of businesses and consumers.

The market is moving extremely quickly. The shift from human-executed payments to agent-executed payments is already underway.

That is Natural.

Huge thank you to my two co-founders, Eric Wang and Walt Leung, who started the company with me 342 days ago, and to our team of 17 who have moved with an unbelievable level of intensity to get us here.

We are hiring aggressively across every function. If you want to join the fastest-moving company in payments, working on the largest opportunity in financial infrastructure, email us at careers@natural.com.

Thanks, </br>
Kahlil

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¹ Natural is a financial technology company, not a bank. Wallet Account and banking services are provided by Column N.A., Member FDIC.

² Natural is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured depository institution. FDIC deposit insurance covers the failure of an insured depository institution. Certain conditions must be satisfied for pass-through FDIC insurance to apply. Deposits in Wallet accounts are FDIC-insured through Column N.A., Member FDIC, and Column’s <a href="https://column.com/legal/sweep-program-network-banks">Sweep Program Network Banks</a>.

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