Natural, which aims to help companies let their AI agents make autonomous payments, raised a $30M Series A led by Forerunner, bringing its total raised to $40M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/natural-raises-30m-to-reinvent-payments-for-ai-agents-and-take-on-stripe/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260720/i34.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260720/p34#a260720p34" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Marina Temkin / <a href="http://techcrunch.com/">TechCrunch</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/natural-raises-30m-to-reinvent-payments-for-ai-agents-and-take-on-stripe/">Natural, which aims to help companies let their AI agents make autonomous payments, raised a $30M Series A led by Forerunner, bringing its total raised to $40M</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; AI agents are starting to execute more sophisticated tasks, such as identifying vendors that can deliver freight, comparing prices &hellip; </p>