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Natural raises $30M to build payment rails for AI agents

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from TechCrunch ·

Natural, a one-year-old startup, raised $30M to create payment infrastructure for autonomous AI transactions. The company aims to challenge Stripe by enabling AI agents to make payments without human intervention. Natural's platform handles identity, compliance, and settlement for machine-to-machine commerce.

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The funding signals growing investor appetite for AI-native fintech, but replacing Stripe's entrenched network will require more than just a novel use case.
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