About
Christian Pickett previously worked at Vercel and Coinbase, and is now cofounder of Orthogonal, which builds agentic payment solutions for APIs.
Founder at OrthogonalYC W26
Intro paths
YC
Christian went through Y Combinator (Winter 2026) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Tyler Bosmeny, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran Orthogonal's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
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In turn, Christian can intro founders to Orthogonal's investors below.
Orthogonal's investors Β· 3
Co-founders at Orthogonal
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Bera SogutFounder
Experience
- OrthogonalCo-founder & CEOcurrent2025 β present
- VercelSoftware Engineer2024 β 2025San Francisco Bay Area
- CoinbaseSoftware Engineer2022 β 2023Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- CoinbaseSoftware Engineer2021Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- BlackBerryApplications Software Development Student2020Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- IBMFull Stack Developer & Watson Digital Advisor2018 β 2019Ottawa, Canada Area
Skills & more
EnglishDocker1Amazon Web Services (AWS)gRPCNode.jsNoSQLCascading Style Sheets (CSS)JavaScriptReact.jsRubyRuby on RailsPython (Programming Language)
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JavaLeadershipSoftware DesignFront-End DevelopmentWeb ApplicationsFront-end DevelopmentGo (Programming Language)Languages English
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Christian Pickett?
- Christian Pickett previously worked at Vercel and Coinbase, and is now cofounder of Orthogonal, which builds agentic payment solutions for APIs.
- Where does Christian Pickett work?
- Christian Pickett is Founder of Orthogonal.
- What companies did Christian Pickett found?
- Christian Pickett founded Orthogonal.
- Where did Christian Pickett go to school?
- Christian Pickett studied at McGill University (Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science); Shawnigan Lake School (High School); Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) (Master of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence).
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Vercel mafia14
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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) mafia12
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Shared employers
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Guillermo RauchFounder & CEO of VercelSangeen ZebInvestor at GV (Google Ventures)Dan CahanaPrincipal on the Investment Team at Notable Capital, focused on Cloud Infrastructure & AIGlenn SolomonInvestor at GGV CapitalOren YungerInvestor at GGV CapitalGeoff LewisFounder & Managing Partner at Bedrock
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