Natural Raises $30M Series A to Build AI Agent Payment Infrastructure

Natural, an AI agent payment infrastructure company, has raised $30 million in a Series A funding round led by Forerunner founder Kirsten Green, bringing its total funding to over $40 million.

Founded by Kahlil Lalji, Eric Wang, and Walt Leung, Natural is building a complete payment technology stack for AI agents. The company currently has six products in production, including accounts and wallets, payments, collections, transfers, and platform connectivity. It plans to roll out additional products such as payment acceptance, agent debit cards, API-based usage billing, credit, and billing management.

Natural emphasizes that agents need more than just payment interfaces—they require underlying capabilities such as identity, authorization, ledgers, multi-bank settlement, multi-currency processing, fraud prevention, compliance, and behavioral auditing. The platform can link agent identities to verifiable legal entities and maintain records of agent operations.

This funding round signals that agent payments are moving from proof-of-concept to real-world financial infrastructure. As AI begins to manage and transfer funds, identity attribution, authorization boundaries, limit controls, anomaly detection, and end-to-end auditing will become critical conditions for its large-scale adoption.