Bera Sogut is Co-Founder at Orthogonal, an agentic payments platform that enables AI agents to discover and pay for APIs. Orthogonal is part of Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch.

Bera studied at McGill University where he met his co-founder Christian Pickett. He worked on reCAPTCHA and Maps APIs at Google and previously worked at Amazon Robotics.

Bera is a 2-time ACM ICPC World Finalist, demonstrating elite competitive programming skills. He has deep expertise in API infrastructure and has solved over 680 competitive programming problems.

Orthogonal was founded in 2025 and provides developers and AI agents instant access to hundreds of APIs through their MCP or SDK with no key management and pay-as-you-go billing. The company is backed by Y Combinator with $500,000 in funding.

Orthogonal addresses a critical infrastructure need as AI agents become the biggest consumers of APIs on the internet. The platform eliminates fragmentation in the MCP ecosystem and simplifies payments, billing, and authentication across dozens of services.