Fintech Startup Natural Scores $30M in Series A Funding Round

The round also saw participation from Aarmaan Ali, Baris Akis, Ramtin Naimi, Nichole Wischoff, Darragh Buckley, Pablo Palafox, Paul Klein IV, Akshay Kothari, Henri Stern, Max Segall, Art Levy, Jake Paul, Logan Paul, and others.

The company plans to use the funding to expand its operations and accelerate the development of its products and technology.

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Natural plans to launch several new products over the coming months, including Voice, Accept, and Cards. Voice will let AI agents securely collect card and other payment details over the phone. Accept will enable businesses to turn AI agents into merchants, while Cards will allow companies to issue debit and charge cards for their agents.

Later in the fourth quarter, the company will introduce Charge, Credit, Direct, and Billing. These features will support API-based billing, provide credit lines for AI agents enable direct access to payment networks, and offer success based billing options for businesses.

The company said it has built much of its banking and payments infrastructure in less than a year since it was founded. Natural was started 342 days ago by Lalji and co-founders Eric Wang and Walt Leung. The company has grown to a team of 17 employees and is actively hiring across all departments.

"We are moving with an unbelievable level of intensity because the market is moving extremely quickly," Lalji said. "The shift from human-executed payments to agent-executed payments is already underway, and Natural is building the infrastructure required to support that shift."

"We made a bet on agentic payments a year ago, when no one was talking about it," Lalji said. "We knew that we needed to own that entire stack. Natural builds and operates the primitives directly: ledgering, money movement, multi-bank settlement, multi-currency, fraud & compliance, agent identity & observability, and more."

About Natural

Founded in 2025, by Kahlil Lalji, Eric Wang, and Walt Leung, Natural is a fintech company building payment infrastructure for AI agents. Natural is not a bank. Column N.A., Member FDIC provides its wallet accounts, and banking services.

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