# Orthogonal

> Orthogonal is a San Francisco startup building the discovery, orchestration, and payment layer for AI agents. Through a single SDK, REST API, MCP server, or CLI, agents can find, call, and pay per-use for 35+ third-party APIs - from data enrichment to search and scraping - with no subscriptions, no key management, and no sales calls. Founded in 2025 by Christian Pickett and Bera Sogut, the company raised a $4.3M seed round led by Pantera Capital and is part of Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch.

- **Founded:** 2025
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Christian Pickett (Co-founder & CEO), Bera Sogut (Co-founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** 6
- **Products:** Orthogonal Unified API, Discovery Layer, Orchestration Runtime, Payments Layer
- **Notable:** Raised $4.3M seed led by Pantera Capital (June 2026), Selected for Y Combinator Winter 2026 batch, Integrated 35+ premium APIs across search, scraping, data enrichment, and identity

## Products & services

- **Orthogonal Unified API** — A single SDK, REST API, MCP server, and CLI that gives agents and developers instant access to 35+ premium third-party APIs, handling key management, auth, routing, and billing in one layer.
- **Discovery Layer** — Natural-language search that lets an agent describe a needed capability and surfaces the right service for the task without manual integration.
- **Orchestration Runtime** — Dynamic routing across providers with normalized responses and rate-limit handling, keeping agents running reliably in production.
- **Payments Layer** — Metered per-call billing with no subscriptions, supporting multiple rails: credits/fiat, x402 onchain micropayments, and MPP agent-native payments. Pricing starts as low as $0.01 per call with $10 free credits.

## Achievements

- Raised $4.3M seed led by Pantera Capital (June 2026)
- Selected for Y Combinator Winter 2026 batch
- Integrated 35+ premium APIs across search, scraping, data enrichment, and identity
- Featured among the top DevTech startups in YC W26

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Announced $4.3M seed round led by Pantera Capital with participation from Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, Decasonic, Blast, Outbound, and Surreal.
- **2026-01** — Joined Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch as an agentic payments / developer-tools company.
- **2026-06** — Expanded marketplace to 35+ APIs including Apollo, People Data Labs, Coresignal, Olostep, and Linkup.

## Links

- Website: https://orthogonal.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/orthogonalsh
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/orthogonal_sh

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Last updated: 2026-07-30