Orchestra
New accelerator entry · 2026-07-11 · the record
In their words
Orchestra is an inference cloud. We capture your AI work traces, train smaller models, and automatically deploy them (only when they outperform the expensive model you are currently paying for). Instead of renting the same frontier model forever, your AI infrastructure gets faster, smarter, and cheaper every time it runs. Suppose your product uses Claude for a repetitive legal workflow. Orchestra observes successful production runs, learns the specific tools and judgment required for that workflow, and trains a specialized open-weight model. Once that model matches or beats Claude on a held-out evaluation, Orchestra starts routing production traffic to it. As more work is completed, the model keeps improving. We started Orchestra because we believe every company using AI should be accumulating intelligence, not accumulating API bills.
What the record says
What the site is built with
Read from the page's own HTML and response headers on 10 September 2026, at https://orchestra.ai/. Each badge matched a string the site serves about itself — hover one to see which. Nothing here is a traffic, ranking or revenue figure: those cannot be read off a page and are not claimed.
Where this sits on the site
Checked away from the directory entry. Neither line below comes from the company's Y Combinator page.
Orchestra evaluates production work, improves the models behind it, and trains specialist models your team owns.
The title and description the site itself served, answering 200. Not a cached copy and not the company's directory entry — what was live when we asked.
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Founder at Orchestra (YC S26). Previously founding Member of Technical Staff (and founding sales guy) at Gumloop, closing ~$2M in first year. Led Ads ML and also consumer AI as first PM at Instacart's Carrot AI. Prior co-founder/CEO at Ones and Zeros (text-to-SQL using transformers). Early at Wildfire (acquired by Google), then 5 years across Google's ads ML and programmatic platforms. SVP Solutions at VideoAmp building TV measurement infrastructure.
Founders, titles and bios as the company published them. Photographs are our own copies of the ones on that record, so they do not break when the original link expires.
Against the 213 companies on file from Summer 2026. Median team 2, largest 30.
Interest Score
Every component below is a field already shown elsewhere on this page.
| Component | What it read | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Team size against its batch | 2 on the directory entry | 2 / 25 |
| Founders named | 2 named | 11 / 15 |
| Site answered when asked | https://orchestra.ai/ answered | 20 / 20 |
| Public repository linked | no GitHub account is linked | 0 / 20 |
| Named on Hacker News | a thread carries the company by name | 20 / 20 |
| Total | 53 / 100 = 53 | |
The formula is the table: each component scores against a fixed maximum, the totals are added, and the score is the total divided by the points this record type can carry — 100, not 100 — because a directory entry states no offering amount or investor count, and scoring it against components the entry cannot hold would rank every company below every filing for the same reason. It measures how much publicly checkable activity surrounds this record today. It is not growth, not traction, not quality, and it is not a prediction.
Companies doing the same kind of thing (B2B › Infrastructure), matched on the sectors each one lists rather than on when it was admitted.
| Company | Batch | Sectors | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Understudy Labs | Summer 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Open Source, AI | 2026-07-11 |
| OneTriangle | Summer 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Open Source, Infrastructure | 2026-07-06 |
| Riften | Summer 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, Reinforcement Learning | 2026-08-04 |
| Context.dev | Summer 2026 | B2B, AI, APIs | 2026-06-01 |
| Decawork | Summer 2026 | B2B, Infrastructure, AI | 2026-07-28 |
| Executor | Summer 2026 | AIOps, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | 2026-07-29 |
| Experiential Labs | Summer 2026 | Reinforcement Learning, Infrastructure, AI | 2026-06-28 |
| Familiar | Summer 2026 | Generative AI, B2B, Entertainment | 2026-08-12 |
| GitCafe | Summer 2026 | Developer Tools, B2B, DevOps | 2026-07-29 |
| hiloop | Summer 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, Machine Learning | 2026-07-29 |
| Hopper | Fall 2026 | Infrastructure, AI | 2026-09-04 |
| Inkbox | Summer 2026 | Developer Tools, Infrastructure, AI | 2026-07-01 |
| Magma | Summer 2026 | Reinforcement Learning, Data Engineering, AI | 2026-08-13 |
| Mireye | Summer 2026 | Geographic Information System, AI, Location-based | 2026-06-14 |
| Parasma | Summer 2026 | Machine Learning, Neurotechnology, AI | 2026-06-24 |
| Speko | Summer 2026 | Developer Tools, AI, Conversational AI | 2026-07-07 |
| Touchmark | Summer 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Infrastructure | 2026-06-13 |
| Ascii | Fall 2026 | Developer Tools, Cloud Computing | 2026-08-31 |
| Caution | Summer 2026 | Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing, Infrastructure | 2026-08-03 |
| Codag | Summer 2026 | Developer Tools | 2026-05-24 |
| Dialogus | Summer 2026 | B2B, Customer Support | 2026-06-27 |
| Edviro | Summer 2026 | Deep Learning, B2B, Energy | 2026-06-30 |
| Limrun | Spring 2026 | — | 2026-05-19 |
| machine0 | Summer 2026 | Developer Tools, Cloud Computing | 2026-06-09 |
| Maritime | Fall 2026 | Developer Tools, Cloud Computing, Infrastructure | 2026-08-31 |
| Orchestra (this page) | Summer 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Open Source, AI | 2026-07-11 |
Click a column heading to sort. 236 other records here share at least one sector with this one; the 25 nearest are in the table. Comparison is against records held here, not against every company that exists.
- 2 founders named on the directory entry.
- One of 31 companies held here in B2B › Infrastructure.
No investor is drawn from a Form D — the form states how many invested and never who. The one investor on this graph is named because a batch has exactly one.
The full profile
Source Check, INVEST, RECRUIT and Press Requests on Orchestra
- Source Check — verify Luis Manrique's other claims against the registers that hold them.
- INVEST — compare this company against the peers above, on the numbers.
- RECRUIT — see who is already on the team.
- Press Requests — connect with Luis Manrique for a story.
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Sourced from the company's Y Combinator directory entry, from the company's own site, read directly on 2026-09-07 (orchestra.ai), and from Hacker News, where 2 threads met the matching rule stated beside the count. Figures are read directly from the source record; names have not been matched against other people.