Orthogonal · Jun 2026
Official seed-round announcement: Orthogonal raised $4.3M led by Pantera Capital, with Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, Decasonic, Blast, Outbound, and Surreal by Premise also participating.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Overview
Orthogonal is a San Francisco-based AI-agent infrastructure company that lets agents discover, access, and pay for third-party APIs and tools through one integration, using an SDK, REST API, MCP server, and CLI.
Primary product
A unified API / MCP / SDK platform for AI agents to discover, call, and pay for external services and APIs.
Founded
2025
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
AI infrastructure / developer tools
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States
Business model
usage-based SaaS
API marketplace / platform
developer infrastructure
pay-per-call billing
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$4.3M
Latest round
Seed · Jun 2026
Latest amount
$4.3M
Jun 2026 · Pantera Capital
Y Combinator
People & investors
Work & culture
Founder-led, technical, and very early-stage; publicly emphasizes shipping quickly, integrating tightly with developers, and building infrastructure for the agent economy.
Compensation
Public compensation evidence is limited to the Founding Engineer posting at $150K–$220K plus equity; no broader employee compensation policy is public.
Product & market
Pricing
Pay-per-call / usage-based credits; no subscription, with calls typically priced around a cent or two.
Differentiators
- —One integration for discovery, execution, and payment
- —Supports SDK, REST, MCP, and CLI access surfaces
- —Pooled credentials and normalized responses across providers
- —Per-call billing with no subscription or monthly minimum
- —Provider monitoring/testing before going live
- —Supports multiple payment rails including credits, x402, MPP, and fiat
Technology
TypeScript
Python
REST API
MCP server
CLI
Next.js
React
x402
MPP
Claude Desktop
Cursor
Customers
Nexio
MouseCat (YC W26)
Hobbes
GTM teams
AI-native startups
Competitors
OpenRouter
Composio
LangChain
Exa
SuperAGI
Olas
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
≈$8.9M/year (Growjo estimate)
Latest news
PRNewswire · Jun 2026
Wire release covering the same round, emphasizing the company’s discovery, orchestration, and payment layer for AI agents and its production use with GTM teams and AI-native startups.
Pantera Capital · Jun 2026
Pantera explains why it led Orthogonal’s seed round and frames the company as infrastructure for the agentic economy.
Orthogonal · Jun 2026
Orthogonal announced a partnership with Tempo to support MPP, adding multi-method, session, and streaming payment rails for agents.
Orthogonal · Jan 2026
Launch post describing Orthogonal as a payment layer for AI agents with MCP, SDK, REST API, and x402-fetch support.
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