Nekuda Raises $5M to Power Agentic Payments

Financial Services
Written By Rick Watson

Nekuda.ai is a secure payments SDK that enables AI and software agents to autonomously make real online payments on behalf of users or businesses.

Nekuda, an agentic payments infrastructure platform, has announced that it has raised $5 million in venture funding. The funding will be invested in product development and scaling operations. Nekuda is aiming to become the trust layer for agentic commerce by providing built-in authentication, guardrails, and compliance, extending down to payment networks. The current financial sector relies on human presence, but Nekuda offers developers an SDK that enables agent-driven transactions within the existing payment ecosystem.

Business Wire: Nekuda Raises $5M Led by Madrona, Together with Amex Ventures and Visa Ventures, to Power Agentic Payments

Rick Watson

Rick Watson founded RMW Commerce Consulting after spending 20+ years as a technology entrepreneur and operator exclusively in the eCommerce industry with companies like ChannelAdvisor, BarnesandNoble.com, Merchantry, and Pitney Bowes.

Watson’s work today is centered on supporting investors and management teams incubating and growing direct-to-consumer businesses. Most recently, in partnership with WHP Global, Rick was a critical resource in architecting the WHP+ platform, a new turnkey direct to consumer digital e-commerce platform that powers AnneKlein.com and JosephAbboud.com.

Watson also hosts a weekly podcast, Watson Weekly, where he shares an unbiased, unfiltered expert take on the retail sector’s biggest players.

In the past year alone, Rick has spoken at many in-person and virtual events as well as podcasts on topics ranging from retail/ecom to supply chain/logistics and even digital grocery including CommerceNext IRL, ASCM Connect, and Retail Innovation Conference.

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