Natural

Natural is a fintech company building financial infrastructure to power payments for an economy of autonomous AI agents. The company emerged from stealth in October 2025 with a $9.8 million seed round co-led by Abstract and Human Capital. The round also included participation from Forerunner Ventures, Terrain, Restive Ventures, and Genius Ventures.

The company was founded by Kahlil Lalji (CEO), Eric Wang, and Walt Leung. Natural's platform is designed to address the limitations of legacy payment systems, which are built for human-to-human interaction. It provides the necessary infrastructure for AI agents to securely and effectively send, receive, and manage payments with businesses, consumers, and other agents. The system is built to handle the complex workflows and approval chains required for autonomous payments, allowing businesses to deploy agents that can make decisions and execute transactions on their behalf.

Natural's business model focuses on providing the financial rails for this emerging agentic economy. The company is initially targeting embedded B2B use cases, with plans to expand to all types of financial interactions in the future. This allows businesses to automate operational hurdles, such as sourcing and paying contractors in property management, settling payments in logistics, or managing vendor payments in healthcare. By rebuilding the stack for developers and agents across identity, authorization, and low-latency settlement, Natural aims to enable end-to-end automated AI workflows. Keywords: agentic payments, AI economy, payment infrastructure, fintech, autonomous transactions, B2B payments, financial automation, payment rails, AI agents, automated workflows, low-latency execution, embedded finance, payment authorization, transaction management, agent-to-agent payments