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Orthogonal Raises $4.3M for Internet-Wide AI Agent Rails
Jun 25, 2026SOURCE: prnewswire.com
SO WHAT
The agent economy is shifting from experiments to infrastructure; the first durable winners will tax the routes machine workers use to find services and move money.
Orthogonal raised a $4.3 million seed led by Pantera Capital, with Y Combinator and others, to build service discovery, orchestration, and payments for AI agents across the internet.
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