Arjun Bhargava '10
Rye Protocol
Arjun Bhargava is the Co-Founder and CEO of Rye, which builds checkout infrastructure for agentic commerce: its Universal Checkout API lets AI agents and apps complete purchases with any online merchant. Rye launched in 2022 as a commerce API with Amazon and Shopify product data and one-click checkout, raising $14 million led by a16z crypto. Before Rye, Bhargava co-founded Session as CTO and held engineering roles at Reddit and Goldman Sachs.