Kahlil Lalji (@bykahlil) / X

Kahlil Lalji

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Kahlil Lalji

@bykahlil

CEO & Co-founder @naturalpay

San Francisco, CA

Joined August 2012

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Kahlil Lalji
@bykahlil
Mar 10
210 days ago, @naturalpay was just a one-pager and a memo. Today, we’re coming out of stealth. Natural is the agentic payments platform powering frictionless money movement between agents, businesses, and consumers. Wallets. Payments. Ledgering. Routing. Identity. Compliance.
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Kahlil Lalji
@bykahlil
Oct 23, 2025
I’m excited to finally announce Natural (@naturalpay), our $9.8m seed round, and commitment to building the best payments ecosystem for agents.
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Kahlil Lalji
@bykahlil
Nov 14, 2025
If you're obsessive you should email me. Whether that means winning math olympiads, dominating ultra-marathon races, handling the largest trade volume on CSGO, knowing everything about music theory, etc.
Natural
@naturalpay
Nov 14, 2025
Tell us what we’re missing: natural.co/careers/open-a…
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Kahlil Lalji
@bykahlil
Nov 10, 2025
If you're applying and building agents email me [email protected] - I'll review your application
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Kahlil Lalji
@bykahlil
Apr 20, 2024
Unfortunately, our 5 month acquisition process for @getivella fell through, so we’re opening up the process to our friends on X. Ivella is a banking app that helps couples manage their finances - from the time they start dating until they get divorced or die. We have four
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Kahlil Lalji
@bykahlil
Nov 7, 2025
I've officially angel invested in 10/11 of the last @ycombinator batches
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Kahlil Lalji
@bykahlil
Jun 17, 2021
Today I'm excited announce @getivella 🎉 We recently joined the YC S21 batch and raised a $475k round from @ycombinator @FinancialStudio and @joshuabrowder to build the future of banking for couples. Read more: ivella.com/blog/ivella-ra…
Kahlil Lalji
@bykahlil
May 27, 2023
Replying to @jasminericegirl and @thejohnfish
The hard launch of the year
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Kahlil Lalji
@bykahlil
Nov 12, 2025
I was reflecting on the first 90 days of @naturalpay. Not sure life has ever moved so quickly So far: - Raised the announced $9.8m seed round - Have grown to a team of 7 (YC founders, KP fellows, iconic designers, marketing leaders, etc) - Signed the first of three core bank
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Kahlil Lalji
@bykahlil
Apr 27, 2024
A week ago we decided to share on here that a five month acquisition process that we had run for @getivella had fallen through, and the reception was amazing. Since then, we’ve taken ~40 meetings with prospective companies and started to see our first offers come through. I’m
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Kahlil Lalji
@bykahlil
May 25, 2025
this girl's dating app profile read, "i'm weirdly attracted to: texting like it's a corporate email" so I had @howie_ai schedule dinner
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Kahlil Lalji
@bykahlil
Oct 24, 2025
Feeling deeply grateful for all the support yesterday. While the @naturalpay round was fully committed in just three days, and we turned down many $m’s of dollars, I’ve also been through my fair share of processes in the past that came with hundreds of no’s. What you’re seeing
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Kahlil Lalji
@bykahlil
Nov 3, 2025
If you want to know how @naturalpay is executing, here's some feedback on our last investor update: "Was one of the best i’ve read out of anyone in a long time" "Can’t wait for Natural to be the best investment we’ve ever made" "Great stuff man" "Amazing progress" "Love it!!
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Kahlil Lalji
@bykahlil
Nov 6, 2025
When looking for Gabby, this is the message I sent the @humancapital recruiting team. “Seemingly weird request Any chance you can help pull together a list of creator / marketing / brand partnership managers at "it girl" brands. Think Rhode, SSENSE, Alo, The RealReal, etc.
Gabby
@itsgabsmith
Nov 6, 2025
Replying to @itsgabsmith
I'm beyond excited to be joining @naturalpay as Head of Marketing, working alongside @bykahlil and a killer team to shape the future of payments.
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