Natural raises $30M to reinvent payments for AI agents โ and take on Stripe TechCrunch By: Marina Temkin 20 July 2026 at 19:11 The one-year-old startup aims to reinvent financial architecture for autonomous AI transactions.
Payments startup Flutterwave hits $3.2B valuation, backed by Ripple TechCrunch By: Dominic-Madori Davis 16 June 2026 at 15:35 African payments infrastructure company Flutterwave has hit a new valuation and landed blockchain company Ripple as an investor and partner.
Revolut rolls out services to thousands of users in India ahead of broader launch TechCrunch By: Jagmeet Singh 1 June 2026 at 14:46 The British fintech has built a waitlist of about 450,000 users in India as it prepares for a broader launch.
Stripe introduces Link, a digital wallet that autonomous AI agents can use, too TechCrunch By: Sarah Perez 30 April 2026 at 17:15 Link lets users connect cards, banks, and subscriptions, then authorize AI agents to spend securely via approval flows.
X taps William Shatner to give out invites to its payments service, X Money TechCrunch By: Sarah Perez 4 March 2026 at 16:34 42 X users donated to William Shatner's charity in exchange for an early invite to X Money beta.