Visa invests in Replit to bring payments into AI coding

Visa Invests in Replit to Integrate Agentic Payments for Developers

Visa has made an undisclosed investment in AI coding platform Replit and announced a strategic partnership to embed payment infrastructure directly into Replit’s development environment, the companies said Wednesday. The deal positions both firms at the intersection of two fast-moving trends: the rise of AI-assisted software creation and the push to let autonomous agents conduct financial transactions.

Payment Tools Meet the IDE

Under the partnership, the companies are working to integrate Visa Intelligent Commerce — Visa’s suite of APIs designed for AI-driven commerce — into Replit’s platform, allowing developers and AI agents to initiate secure transactions and accept payments without leaving their coding environment. The collaboration also explores how agents built on Replit can join Visa’s Trusted Agent Protocol registry, a cryptographic system that allows AI agents to securely identify themselves to merchants and prove they are acting on a consumer’s behalf.futunn

More than 1,000 Visa employees already use Replit for internal prototyping and development, a relationship that preceded the investment. “Our investment and partnership reflect a shared view that card payments should be native, secure and integrated directly into those experiences from the start,” said Rubail Birwadker, SVP and Head of Growth Products and Partnerships at Visa.futunn

Enterprise Momentum

The announcement accompanies a broader enterprise push by Replit, which now counts users at 85 percent of the Fortune 500 and is targeting $1 billion in run-rate revenue by year’s end. The company raised $400 million in a Series D round in March at a $9 billion valuation. Replit also unveiled a self-serve enterprise tier allowing organizations to purchase contracts up to $200,000 without engaging a sales representative, and launched a Solution Partner Program with founding members Accenture, Slalom, and Hexaware.instagram

The Race for Agent Payments

The partnership slots into a wider industry contest to define how AI agents transact. Visa launched Intelligent Commerce Connect in April as a protocol-agnostic gateway supporting its own Trusted Agent Protocol alongside payment standards from Stripe, OpenAI, and Google. The companies said they are also exploring machine-to-machine payment experiences, including high-frequency, low-value transactions between autonomous services.byteiota

“Visa’s participation highlights our commitment to making coding available to everyone in a secure and trustworthy environment,” said Replit CEO Amjad Masad.futunn