ORO AI
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About ORO AI
YC company profile
Continuously improving evals for agentic commerce
We're building the open benchmark for commerce.
Builders submit shopping agents. Independent validators run them against problems that change daily. The best agent earns the rewards, and every run becomes training data.
- YC batch: Fall 2026
- Founded: 2026
- Team size: 2
- Location: Vancouver, Canada
- Country: CA
- Status: Active
- Industry: B2B
- Stage: Early
- Tags: Crypto / Web3, Consumer Products, AI
- YC partner: Christopher Golda
Founders
Shardul Bansal — Founder/CEO
Founder at ORO AI.
Previously founding engineer at Crucible Labs, building on Bittensor. Before that, was at AWS Cloud Map, helping scale API throughput 4x.
Computer Science @ University of Toronto, early undergrad researcher, working on evals for distributed training.
Seth Schilbe — Founder/CTO
Founder at ORO AI.
Previously Senior Software Engineer at AWS, leading distributed systems projects across ECS and AWS Cloud Map.
Earlier, co-founded HomeWurk, building a two-sided marketplace for local services. Targeting low skilled contract work for high school and university students to make extra money while in school.
Software Engineering degree from University of New Brunswick.
Source: Y Combinator · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.
