Visa has announced an undisclosed investment in Replit, an AI coding platform, to explore integrating Visa’s payment products into Replit. This integration would allow developers and the AI agents they build to accept payments directly from customers without leaving the platform. Visa stated that more than 1,000 of its employees have been using Replit for prototyping and development. As part of the partnership, the companies are examining how developers on Replit can leverage Visa’s AI-powered payments suite, Visa Intelligent Commerce, and the Trusted Agent Protocol, which enables AI agents to securely identify themselves by sharing intent and customer details.
All initiatives remain in an exploratory phase, with no formal joint products announced. The investment reflects a broader industry push to develop infrastructure for agentic payments, where AI agents act on users’ behalf. Other companies like Robinhood and Google are also advancing in this space. Replit’s CEO, Amjad Masad, noted that Visa’s involvement highlights the company’s mission to make coding accessible securely.
Replit is also launching self-serve enterprise access, enabling companies to sign contracts up to $200,000 without sales personnel. The tier includes enterprise-grade compliance features like SSO, audit logs, and advanced permissions. Masad added that the company’s enterprise traction is growing, aided by the new self-serve program, which allows teams to transition from idea to production-ready software quickly and securely. As demand for vibe-coding platforms rises, Replit’s valuation has surged, reaching $9 billion in March after hitting $3 billion in September of the previous year.
In May at TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC event, Masad highlighted low churn and high net retention, with some cases reaching 300%. He explained that once enterprises adopt Replit’s full stack, especially in single-tenant environments, they tend to retain the apps.
Source: techcrunch
