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Orthogonal

APIs weren't built for agents. Orthogonal fixes that. We enable agentic payments so any agent can instantly discover, access, and pay for hundreds of APIs. No subscriptions, no sales calls, just pay per use. API providers list once and get paid every time an agent calls their API.

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Y Combinator
competitors
6
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last updated
2026-07-15
16:41 UTC
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Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #5949

APIs weren't built for agents. Orthogonal fixes that. We enable agentic payments so any agent can instantly discover, access, and pay for hundreds of APIs. No subscriptions, no sales calls, just pay per use. API providers list once and get paid every time an agent calls their API.

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High Signal interpretation

Orthogonal is classified as AI agents from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

offline extraction
Product facets
APIsAPIagentic paymentsagents
mapping method
Similarity graph

Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

discovery cluster

Companies similar to Orthogonal

AI agents · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

SnapTrade

match 71

SnapTrade is an API to connect retail brokerage accounts to any fintech app. We enable API access to real-time account data, historical transactions, and trading. This makes it possible to build new investing experiences with existing brokerage accounts, so users don't need to transfer and it's easier to get started.

shared extracted concepts: api; shared product terms: enable, so, any, acces; shared product theme: developer infrastructure, finance and payments; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Churpy

match 66

Churpy is on mission to connect developers with an aggregated API for both financial data and payment processing. We are expanding across the African continent after connecting to the leading banks APIs in Kenya.

shared extracted concepts: apis; shared product terms: api, payment, apis; shared product theme: developer infrastructure, finance and payments

Rindler

match 65

Rindler turns any website, including sites without APIs, into a deterministic API that AI agents can reliably use. It handles logins, 2FA, and bot detection, giving agents clean structured data and dependable actions instead of raw HTML, with robust maintenance when sites change. Rindler is agent-agnostic and built on the open MCP standard, so it works with any agent. For operators: get your team out of portals and back to the work that matters. For agent builders: let your agents act on the rea

shared extracted concepts: apis, api; shared product terms: apis, so, any, api; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: AI agents; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Krab

match 64

A lending platform that enables truckers/trucking companies with no formal credit score to access loans from banks. Our platform creates a rich credit profile of a trucking company by pulling 200+ data points from varied sources via consent APIs and instantly offers loans from multiple banking partners in less than 60 seconds. The trucking company can also use the same product for order management, invoice generation, vendor payments, and collections.

shared extracted concept terms: apis; shared product terms: enable, no, acces, apis; shared product theme: finance and payments; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Sunlight

match 58

Sunlight moves B2B payment volume onto card without asking a single supplier to onboard. Our AI agents determine where a bill can be paid by card without a surcharge, then execute that payment through the vendor's own billing or AR portal, returning a confirmed status, receipt, and structured remittance data through a single API. For decades, moving invoice spend onto card meant building a rail or signing suppliers up one at a time. Both are slow, and both leave most of the volume behind. Sunlig

shared extracted concepts: api; shared product terms: payment, api, paid, time; shared product theme: developer infrastructure, finance and payments; same category: AI agents; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

AgentRouter

match 40

AgentRouter lets agents discover, pay, and execute APIs.

shared extracted concepts: apis; shared product terms: discover, pay, apis; same category: AI agents; shared affiliation: Y Combinator