About Natural
Natural is an agentic payments platform that lets AI agents move and store funds, make payments, collect money, and transact with humans and other agents. It is built for companies developing AI agents that need to execute financial transactions autonomously.
What is Natural?
What is Natural?
Natural is payments infrastructure designed for AI agents. Its website describes it as "the agentic payments platform powering frictionless money movement between agents, businesses, and consumers." In practice, Natural acts as an orchestration layer that lets agents move and store funds, make payments, collect money, and transact with people and with other agents.
The premise, as described by TechCrunch, is that existing payment rails assume a human is authorizing each step. Agents operate at machine speed and need infrastructure that supports autonomous transactions with appropriate controls. Natural is redesigning that stack with agents in mind and is positioning itself against incumbents such as Stripe.
The company was founded in 2025 by CEO Kahlil Lalji, Eric Wang, and Walt Leung, a former engineering manager at Nextdoor. It operated in beta before its funding announcement.
In July 2026 Natural announced a $30 million Series A led by Kirsten Green's Forerunner Ventures, bringing its total funding to $40 million. It is aimed at developers and companies building agents that must handle money as part of their workflows.
Pros
- Purpose-built for agent-initiated payments
- Supports paying, collecting, moving, and storing funds
- Handles agent-to-agent and agent-to-human transactions
- Backed by Forerunner Ventures
Cons
- Recently out of beta; product is still maturing
- Competes with large, established payment providers
- Public pricing details are limited
How to Use Natural
- 1Request access
Sign up or contact Natural via natural.com.
- 2Integrate
Connect your AI agent to Natural's payments platform.
- 3Configure controls
Set up how agents can move, store, and collect funds.
- 4Transact
Let agents make and receive payments with businesses, consumers, or other agents.