ORO becomes first crypto company with a live token accepted into Y Combinator
markjeffrey · x · 2026-09-09
ORO, a startup building open source models for agentic commerce, announced its acceptance into Y Combinator's Fall 2026 batch. According to the shared commentary, it is the first crypto company with a live token to be admitted: YC underwrote ORO, evaluated its Bittensor model, and concluded the subnet is a structural advantage while the token is accretive to the company's capital structure. The team will keep building best-in-class open source models for agentic commerce with YC's support.
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