ORO AI
New accelerator entry · 2026-09-08 · the record
In their words
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.
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://oroagents.com/. 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. What is below does not come from the company's Y Combinator page.
AI-powered agents, evaluated on Bittensor. Where AI learns to shop.
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.
Founder at ORO AI. Previously founding engineer at Crucible Labs, scaling Crucible Wallet from 0 to $3.5M AUM in 3 months. Built distributed systems at AWS Cloud Map, scaling API throughput 4x. Computer Science @ University of Toronto, early undergrad researcher, working on evals for distributed training. Co-President at UofT AI, running the largest undergrad ML competition in 2021 to model climate change, secured $100k+ in grant funding from Google, DeepMind, IBM, Accuweather, etc.
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.
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 37 companies on file from Fall 2026. Median team 2, largest 6.
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 | 3 / 25 |
| Founders named | 2 named | 11 / 15 |
| Site answered when asked | https://oroagents.com/ answered | 20 / 20 |
| Public repository linked | a GitHub account is linked from the record | 20 / 20 |
| Named on Hacker News | no thread carries the company by name | 0 / 20 |
| Total | 54 / 100 = 54 | |
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 › Engineering, Product and Design), matched on the sectors each one lists rather than on when it was admitted.
| Company | Batch | Sectors | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agent FM | Summer 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, Productivity | 2026-08-05 |
| Alkera AI | Summer 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, Data Science | 2026-07-10 |
| Amorphic Labs | Summer 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Marketplace, B2B | 2026-07-31 |
| CoArena | Summer 2026 | AIOps, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | 2026-06-24 |
| hardware intelligence | Summer 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, Hardware | 2026-07-14 |
| herdr | Fall 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, AI Assistant | 2026-08-06 |
| HyperProbe | Summer 2026 | AIOps, Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools | 2026-07-07 |
| Linzumi | Spring 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, Chat | 2026-06-11 |
| Palisade | Summer 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Marketplace, Sales | 2026-08-13 |
| Simulithic | Fall 2026 | Artificial Intelligence | 2026-08-11 |
| Vendo | Summer 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, B2B, Customer Success | 2026-07-19 |
| Workers IO | Fall 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, B2B | 2026-08-28 |
| Zenbu | Spring 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, Open Source | 2026-06-03 |
| ByteAsk | Fall 2026 | Developer Tools, Generative AI, SaaS | 2026-09-09 |
| Graphify Labs | Summer 2026 | Developer Tools, Open Source | 2026-07-26 |
| Hoplite | Summer 2026 | Developer Tools, Cloud Computing, AI | 2026-06-23 |
| OnePatch | Fall 2026 | DevOps, Automation, AI | 2026-09-03 |
| OpenProse | Spring 2026 | — | 2026-05-19 |
| OpenRelay | Summer 2026 | AI | 2026-07-09 |
| Osseus | Summer 2026 | Robotics, B2B, Biotech | 2026-07-11 |
| Prized | Summer 2026 | Developer Tools, SaaS | 2026-06-30 |
| Rindler | Summer 2026 | Developer Tools, SaaS, Infrastructure | 2026-07-07 |
| Simantic | Fall 2026 | Developer Tools, Hardware, Semiconductors | 2026-06-24 |
| Agnost AI | Summer 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, Analytics | 2026-07-08 |
| Akon Labs | Summer 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, SaaS | 2026-08-14 |
| ORO AI (this page) | Fall 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Crypto / Web3, Consumer Products | 2026-09-08 |
Click a column heading to sort. 205 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 24 companies held here in B2B › Engineering, Product and Design.
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 ORO AI
- Source Check — verify Shardul Bansal'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 Shardul Bansal for a story.
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