We've raised $9.8m to build payments for AI agents

Today we're excited to announce Natural, our $9.8m seed round, and commitment to building the best payments ecosystem for agents.

The payments system has always been built around human-to-human interaction, whether for personal exchanges or on behalf of businesses. As the world transitions into an agentic future - where agents are responsible for a majority of global transaction volume, we'll need to create a new way for agents to interact - with consumers, businesses, and increasingly other agents.

Today, agents lack all of the fundamental infrastructure to allow them to financially engage with the broader world. We're fixing that.

We're fortunate to be supported by an incredible group of investors: Abstract, Human Capital, Forerunner, Terrain, Restive, and Genius Ventures, along with some of the best founders and operators in the world, Zach Abrams (CEO, Bridge), Immad Akhund (CEO, Mercury), Eric Glyman and Karim Atiyeh (CEO & CTO, Ramp), Guillermo Rauch (CEO, Vercel), Itai Damti (CEO, Unit), Matt Michaelis (CEO, Emprise Bank), and many others.

If you're building agentic systems, chances are your agents should be able to execute payments too. Reach out to us at founders@natural.co. We're seeing strong traction with companies building agents across freight and logistics, multi-family property management, back-office workflows in healthcare, marketing and automation, and procurement.

A special thanks to Ryan Lawler from Axios for covering the exclusive. And if you're excited about shaping the next generation of payments infrastructure, we're hiring! Check out our careers page or email us with the most interesting thing(s) you've worked on.

This is the most important problem in payments for the decades ahead.

Thanks,
Natural Team