Orthogonal announced that it has raised $4.3 million in seed funding to build discovery, orchestration, and payments infrastructure for AI agents.
The round was led by Pantera Capital, with participation from Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, Decasonic, Blast, Outbound, Surreal, and other strategic investors.
Orthogonal is building a platform that gives AI agents a unified way to discover services, access capabilities, orchestrate workflows, and complete payments across the internet.
The company said AI agents are becoming a new class of internet users, but they remain limited by the tools and services they are initially given. When agents encounter tasks that require new capabilities, they can fail, hallucinate, or require human intervention.
Orthogonal addresses this by enabling agents to describe what they need and then composing the result by calling the right services in the right order.
The company was founded by former leaders from Coinbase, Vercel, Google, and Amazon Robotics. Orthogonal is already live in production with go-to-market teams and AI-native startups.
The platform currently supports more than 35 APIs, including Apollo, People Data Labs, Coresignal, Olostep, and Linkup. Developers are actively integrating Orthogonal into production agents and workflows.
Orthogonal offers developers a unified SDK, API, MCP, and CLI that connects agents to internet services through a single integration.
The platform is designed to serve both developers and service providers. Developers and agent builders gain access to a growing ecosystem of services through one account, authorization flow, and invoice. Service providers can list once and become discoverable to agents and developers across Orthogonal’s ecosystem and distribution partner network.
Orthogonal already supports multiple payment rails, including traditional fiat payments, x402, and MPP. The company also plans to support emerging agent-native payment standards and has been working with the Privy and Tempo teams at Stripe to simplify payment execution for agents.
The funding will be used to accelerate development of Orthogonal’s core platform and expand its engineering and go-to-market teams.
Over the next 12 months, Orthogonal plans to expand from dozens of integrated services to thousands while scaling from hundreds of active developers and agents to a broader ecosystem.
KEY QUOTES:
“Soon, there will be more agents than people online. Those agents will book flights, hire contractors, enrich customer data, conduct research, and complete transactions without a human in the loop. But before that future can happen, agents need a reliable way to discover capabilities, orchestrate them, and pay for them. Orthogonal is building that missing layer.”
“Our goal is simple. When an agent needs a capability it doesn’t already have, Orthogonal should be the first place it goes. We want to become the default front door for the internet.”
Christian Pickett, Co-Founder and CEO of Orthogonal
“Discovery, orchestration, and payments are the three critical problems standing between today’s agents and true autonomy. Most companies are focused on building better models or better agents. We’re focused on the infrastructure layer that allows every agent to find and use the services it needs to get real work done.”
Bera Sogut, Co-Founder of Orthogonal
“We are moving rapidly toward an internet where the primary consumers of data and services aren’t humans clicking links, but autonomous agents executing complex financial decisions. McKinsey projects agentic commerce will drive trillions in economic activity by 2030, but that economic engine can’t run on legacy rails. Orthogonal is building the definitive, agent-native infrastructure for discovery, orchestration and payments and it has the potential to become a foundational part of the agent economy.”
Franklin Bi, General Partner at Pantera
