# Mural raises $15m to connect banks to the bot economy

> Former Palantir engineers launch a platform to simplify international payments as stablecoins and AI agents reshape financial services.
- Title: Mural raises $15m to connect banks to the bot economy
- Summary: Former Palantir engineers launch a platform to simplify international payments as stablecoins and AI agents reshape financial services. Mural, a New York…
- Keywords: mural, sinclair toffa, chris fernandes, palantir, stablecoins, international payments, fintech, series a funding, tether, ai agents, raises, 15m
- Source: Fortune — https://fortune.com/2026/10/20/mural-startup-former-palantir-engineers-15-million-bid-banks-bot-economy
- Author: Camila Grigera Naón
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: mural, sinclair toffa, chris fernandes, palantir, stablecoins, international payments, fintech, series a funding, tether, ai agents
## The problem Mural solves
Businesses juggle banks, payment providers and regulations to move money across borders. Mural offers one platform to manage international payments instead of piecing systems together themselves.
## Mural's fifteen million dollar round
Cofounded by former Palantir engineers Sinclair Toffa and Chris Fernandes in two thousand twenty-two, Mural announced Tuesday it raised a fifteen million dollar Series A. The startup will use funds to build its platform further.
## How Mural's platform works
Customers including payroll providers, software companies and fintechs get a single account holding traditional dollars, local currencies and stablecoins.

> building this… compliant system of record that allows for businesses and fintechs to launch new financial products on top of us
## Stablecoins are growing fast
Stablecoin payments reached roughly four hundred billion dollars in the first eight months of twenty twenty-six, up from the same period a year earlier.
## Tether leads the funding round
Tether, issuer of the USDT stablecoin, led Mural's Series A with participation from North Island Ventures.
## AI agents and the future
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said the investment reflects a bet on AI agents becoming regular handlers of financial services.

> Those agents will need access to payment systems that operate around the clock and can reach people across the world
## Key takeaway

Mural, a New York startup founded by former Palantir engineers, raised fifteen million dollars in Series A funding to build a platform that lets businesses manage international payments using traditional currencies, local money and stablecoins from a single account.