--- title: Natural raises $30M to reinvent payments for AI agents —... description: Natural, a one-year-old startup, has raised a $30M Series A led by Forerunner to build payment infrastructure designed for autonomous AI agents. Current... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/natural-raises-30m-to-reinvent-payments-for-ai-agents-and-take-on-stripe-sobjswbmq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Natural raises $30M to reinvent payments for AI agents — and take on Stripe | daily.dev og:description: Natural, a one-year-old startup, has raised a $30M Series A led by Forerunner to build payment infrastructure designed for autonomous AI agents. Current... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/natural-raises-30m-to-reinvent-payments-for-ai-agents-and-take-on-stripe-sobjswbmq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/SoBJswBMQ.png og:image:alt: Natural raises $30M to reinvent payments for AI agents — and take on Stripe og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Natural raises $30M to reinvent payments for AI agents — and take on Stripe **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Natural, a one-year-old startup, has raised a $30M Series A led by Forerunner to build payment infrastructure designed for autonomous AI agents. Current financial rails — credit cards, ACH — require human authorization, making them incompatible with agents that need to pay vendors, collect funds, or transact with each other autonomously. Natural positions itself as an agent orchestration layer that handles money movement and storage for AI agents, putting it in direct competition with Stripe, which is also redesigning payment rails for agents. The startup also plans to support stablecoins alongside traditional bank payments. CEO Kahlil Lalji believes agentic payments could grow transaction volumes by orders of magnitude compared to today. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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