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Natural is raising $30M to build financial rails specifically designed for autonomous AI agents, addressing the critical bottleneck where current human-authorized payment systems cannot support independent machine transactions. This venture represents a foundational shift in infrastructure required as agentic workflows become more complex and frequent. By decoupling transaction authorization from manual intervention, Natural aims to enable self-sustaining economic loops between AI entities without requiring constant human oversight.

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Natural raises $30M to reinvent payments for AI agents — and take on Stripe

TechCrunchJuly 20, 20264 min read

The one-year-old startup aims to reinvent financial architecture for autonomous AI transactions.

AI agents are starting to execute more sophisticated tasks, such as identifying vendors that can deliver freight, comparing prices, and messaging the vendor to organizing a delivery. But when it comes to making a payment for the shipment, they still need to involve a human. Today’s financial sector relies on financial rails, the underlying infrastructure that moves money and information between banks, businesses, and consumers. But these financial rails were built…

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