# Alvaro Morales

> Alvaro Morales is the co-founder and CEO of Orb, the flexible billing engine behind companies like Vercel, Perplexity and Replit. Raised in Lima, Peru and trained as a computer scientist at MIT, he built products at Yahoo, Palantir and spent five years as an engineering leader at Asana, where he watched pricing changes that should have taken minutes drag on for months. In 2021 he and CTO Kshitij Grover founded Orb to let companies ship pricing as fast as they ship product. In June 2026, payments giant Adyen agreed to acquire Orb for $335 million.

- **Role:** Co-founder & CEO at Orb
- **Organizations:** Orb, Asana, Palantir Technologies, Yahoo, Forbes Technology Council
- **From:** Lima, Peru
- **Nationality:** Peruvian
- **Education:** B.S. in Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- **Known for:** Co-founded and scaled Orb into billing infrastructure trusted by Vercel, Perplexity, Replit and Pinecone, Raised roughly $49M in venture funding from Mayfield, Menlo Ventures, Greylock and others, Grew Orb revenue about 5x and tripled its customer base in a single year

## Career timeline

- **2013** — Software Engineering Intern at Yahoo!
- **2014** — Forward Deployed Engineer Intern at Palantir Technologies
- **2015** — Graduated MIT with a B.S. in Computer Science
- **2015-2021** — Engineering leader at Asana, leading growth engineering and core product teams through the company's direct listing
- **2021** — Co-founded Orb with Kshitij Grover; raised $5.1M seed led by Greylock
- **2023** — Raised $19.1M Series A led by Menlo Ventures
- **2024** — Raised $25M Series B led by Mayfield; revenue grew ~5x
- **2026** — Adyen agreed to acquire Orb for $335M

## Achievements

- Co-founded and scaled Orb into billing infrastructure trusted by Vercel, Perplexity, Replit and Pinecone
- Raised roughly $49M in venture funding from Mayfield, Menlo Ventures, Greylock and others
- Grew Orb revenue about 5x and tripled its customer base in a single year
- Led Orb to a $335M acquisition by Adyen in 2026
- Member of the Forbes Technology Council

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Adyen announced a definitive agreement to acquire Orb for $335 million; Orb to operate as a subsidiary under an incubator model, with the founders reinvesting proceeds into Adyen shares.
- **2026-04** — Featured in the Pricing SaaS newsletter discussing the state of SaaS pricing and the rise of outcome-based models.
- **2024-09** — Closed a $25M Series B led by Mayfield as Orb's revenue grew roughly 5x.

## Links

- Website: https://www.withorb.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alvaro-morales
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/useorb
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/withorb

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Last updated: 2026-07-01