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About Orthogonal
Orthogonal gives AI agents one layer for calling tools and live data, aggregating search, scraping, company enrichment and social data endpoints from more than 60 providers into a single catalog. A developer or agent describes a task, searches the catalog for a matching endpoint, reads its inputs and price, then calls it with one key; billing draws on a shared balance and also supports per-call stablecoin settlement through x402 and MPP.
It removes the account, key and invoice friction that blocks agents from paid APIs: agents skip signing up with each vendor, providers skip building agent integrations, and the platform handles routing, authentication and revenue split. Delivery is through REST, a hosted MCP server and a command line tool that plugs into Claude, Cursor and similar clients. The catalog itself is closed source, and its coverage depends on upstream providers continuing to supply endpoints at stable prices.
Orthogonal was founded by former leaders from Coinbase, Vercel, Google, and Amazon Robotics, positioning itself as the discovery, orchestration, and payment infrastructure layer for AI agents.
The product is already live in production, supporting over 35 APIs including Apollo, People Data Labs, and others. Developers can integrate via SDK, MCP, or REST API, enabling agents to discover and call services instantly.
In June 2026, Orthogonal completed a $4.3 million seed round led by Pantera Capital, with participation from Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, Decasonic, and others. The funds will be used to expand the platform to thousands of services and grow the engineering and go-to-market teams.
In June 2026 Orthogonal closed a $4.3 million seed round led by Pantera Capital with Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund and Decasonic participating, funding infrastructure for capability discovery, orchestration and payments. The company was founded by former Coinbase, Vercel, Google and Amazon Robotics staff and was already in production with go-to-market teams and AI-native startups.
On Orthogonal, one key and one balance connect more than 60 providers, with over 35 APIs listed including Apollo, People Data Labs, Coresignal, Olostep and Linkup, reachable through REST, MCP, an SDK or a CLI. Payments run on three rails, fiat, x402 and MPP, and the team has worked with Privy and Stripe's Tempo group to simplify agent payment flows; the x402 gateway turns a single API call into a completed purchase without a human approving each one.
Orthogonal's target is to grow from dozens of integrated services to thousands within twelve months and from hundreds of developers and agents to a much wider ecosystem, measured by the share of end-to-end tasks agents complete rather than raw call volume, with the aim of being the default front door when an agent needs a capability it lacks.
Christian Pickett — Co-founder & CEO; formerly led payments at Coinbase and billing at Vercel.
Bera Sogut — Co-founder & CTO; previously worked on reCAPTCHA and Maps API at Google and at Amazon Robotics. Orthogonal was founded in 2025 and is a YC W26 company backed by Pantera Capital.