Summary
Natural, a startup building the underlying payments infrastructure for AI agents, secured a credit facility of up to $100 million with Upper90 Capital Management. The funding boosts Natural's capacity to meet the capital requirements of its payments and credit offerings as AI agents become active economic participants. The deal reflects the accelerating buildout of infrastructure for agentic commerce — the emerging category where AI agents autonomously purchase data, computing resources and online services.
Key Points
- Natural secured up to $100M credit facility with Upper90 Capital Management
- Funding for payments and credit offerings for AI agents
- Supports higher payment volumes and deployed credit as AI agents scale
- Part of the broader agentic-commerce infrastructure buildout
- Context: Coinbase x402, Stripe ACP, Google AP2, Agentic Payments Alliance
- McKinsey projects $3-5 trillion in global agentic commerce by 2030
- AI agents increasingly active participants in the global economy
- Stablecoins taking early lead in AI agent payments (USDC ~99% of x402 transactions)
- Cards retain edge for larger transactions (credit, refunds, dispute protections)