Visa has invested in Replit, tying one of the largest card networks more directly to the AI coding platform's developer base. TechCrunch reported the deal on Thursday, citing Visa's statement that more than 1,000 of its employees have been using Replit for prototyping and development.

The companies did not disclose the investment size. The more concrete product angle is payments infrastructure for apps created on Replit, where developers increasingly use agents to generate, deploy, and revise software from natural-language prompts. That makes checkout, identity, fraud checks, and payment orchestration a more immediate problem for non-specialist builders.

For Visa, the move fits a broader push into agentic commerce. In October, the company introduced Trusted Agent Protocol, a framework meant to help merchants distinguish legitimate AI shopping agents from malicious bots and preserve trust during agent-driven checkout. Visa framed that work around agents that can search, compare, and pay on behalf of consumers.

Replit has also been leaning into enterprise agentic development. Its latest funding announcement described the company as an agentic software creation platform and highlighted new autonomous-agent capabilities for enterprise customers.

The investment does not mean Replit apps automatically get a finished Visa payment stack today. It does, however, show Visa looking upstream from checkout into the tools where AI-generated software is being created. If agent-built apps become common, payment networks will need developer-facing rails that are easy enough for agents and novice builders to wire in without bypassing compliance or trust controls.