Ravi Pratap Singh

Bengaluru, India

I am Ravi

Founder · Onto · Open Dev Society

About

building the context layer AI agents are missing.

I'm the founder of Onto — infrastructure that lets AI agents read, watch, and govern the open web in real-time. Today, agents are blind to what's happening outside their training data. Onto fixes that.

Layer 1 (Read) is live in Anthropic's official MCP Registry with paying customers. Layer 2 (Watch) is shipping to first design partners. Layer 3 (Govern) is on the roadmap for enterprise.

Before Onto, I founded Open Dev Society — an open-source community that crossed 13,300+ GitHub stars, with our flagship project OpenStock reaching 10,500+ active users and trending globally on GitHub.

I'm a computer science undergraduate at HBTU Kanpur, originally from Bulandshahr, now building from Bangalore. Top 2% in the Harvard-affiliated Aspire Leaders Program. Top 10% in YC's S26 batch. Selected for Google for Startups Immersion (powered by Antler).

Solo founder. 4 months in. Just getting started.

Highlights

Top 10%YC S26
Live inAnthropic MCP Registry
13.3K+GitHub stars
10.5K+OpenStock users

Journey

Founder & CEO @ Onto

Onto

Feb 2026 — Present

Building Onto — the live external context infrastructure for AI agents.

Shipped Layer 1 (Read API) to production in 4 months — fetch, clean, structure any URL for agent consumption.

Listed in Anthropic's official MCP Registry as io.github.ravixalgorithm/onto.

Multiple paying customers; YC S25 head of engineering on the waitlist.

Shipping Layer 2 (Watch) — continuous monitoring and change detection for the agent web.

Selected for Google for Startups Immersion (powered by Antler), Bangalore cohort.

Top 10% in Y Combinator S26 application cycle.

Founder @ Open Dev Society

Open Dev Society

2024 — Present

Founded an open-source community now past 13,300+ GitHub stars across projects.

Built OpenStock, an open-source stock data library that reached 10,500+ active users and trended globally on GitHub.

Distribution and community-led growth across multiple repositories.

Mentored open-source contributors across India and abroad.

Software Developer (Part-time) @ Lander Studio

Lander Studio

May 2026 — Present

Building production Next.js applications. Funding the startup runway.

Writing

All writing

Featured in

Y Combinator S26 Rejection

Top 10% in the Summer 2026 application cycle. Personalized rejection encouraging re-application for W27.

Anthropic MCP Registry

View on Registry

Onto's MCP server is listed in Anthropic's official Model Context Protocol Registry as io.github.ravixalgorithm/onto.

Google for Startups Immersion (powered by Antler)

Selected for the Bangalore cohort. Phase 2 at Google for Startups, Bangalore.

YC Startup School India

Selected — Top 2,000 of 25,000 founders globally.

Building now

Onto

External context infrastructure for AI agents.

ReadLive

Clean, structured content from any URL, instantly. The fetch + clean primitive for AI agents.

WatchShipping

Continuous monitoring of URLs and domains. Detect changes, emit events, wire to webhooks.

GovernNext

Policy, access control, audit trails. The compliance layer for AI agents in the enterprise.

Education

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science

Harcourt Butler Technical University (HBTU), Kanpur

2023 — Present

Building production software and shipping open source in parallel with coursework.

JEE Main 97.2 percentile · CGPA maintained while building startups

Tech stack

TypeScriptReactSupabaseCloudflareOpenAI API

PythonNode.jsPostgresModel Context Protocol (MCP)

Next.jsTailwindVercel EdgeAnthropic API

Contact

Got something interesting to build?

Bangalore, India · originally Bulandshahr

Email: founder@buildonto.dev
X: @ravixalgorithm
GitHub: ravixalgorithm
LinkedIn: ravixalgorithm
Onto: buildonto.dev

Open to investor conversations, design partners, and collaborations on agent infrastructure.