Cardboard YC-Bewerbung

Winter 2026Active

Cardboard durchlief Y Combinator im Winter 2026-Batch als ein B2B-Unternehmen. Unten: Was das Unternehmen tut, wer es gegründet hat und seine Bewerbung bei YC, Frage für Frage im echten YC-Formular rekonstruiert.

YC-Batch: Winter 2026
Branche: B2B
Teamgröße: 4
Status: Active
Gestartet: 2026

Gründer

Saksham AggarwalFounder
Ishan SharmaFounder

Was Cardboard tut

Cardboard is an agentic video editor for growth/marketing teams and serious creators who need to ship videos consistently. Instead of agencies, long timelines, and infinite review cycles, teams give cardboard a footage + a goal (“3 variants”, “30s hook”, “testimonials”) to get a strong first cut in minutes on which they can iterate quickly. Multimodal LLMs can finally reason over footage, and WebGPU/WebCodecs make a real NLE possible in the browser. For the first time, an “AI director” inside a professional editor can be a reality. We have to build two hard things at once: a high-performance editor in the browser and an agentic editor that is reliable for production use cases. Most startups do one; incumbents can’t rebuild their stack without breaking everything. Saksham and Ishan met in school and have known each other since 15 years. Saksham was Co-founder/CTO of Iterate AI (backed by EF) and posts content on social media; Ishan has spent ~5yr building memory-heavy, performance-critical browser apps at HackerRank (S11) and deeply understands browsers. He has built Hotspoter (5M+ downloads) when he was 14. Together, we’re unusually suited to build the editor core others avoid. Video is becoming the default distribution channel, and the team that iterates fastest compounds attention. Cardboard becomes the default workspace for video production, the way Canva/Figma became the workspace for design - because it’s collaborative, fast, and does the tedious parts for you.

Cardboards YC-Bewerbung, rekonstruiert

Y Combinator Bewerbung

Cardboard, Winter 2026 Batch. Die echten Fragen des Antrags, beantwortet aus öffentlichen Daten.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Cardboard

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Agentic video editor

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We are building an agentic video editor designed for marketing and growth teams who need to ship videos quickly and consistently. Instead of agencies and slow review cycles, users upload footage with a goal like "3 variants" or "30s hook" and get a strong first cut in minutes. Our product leverages multimodal LLMs to reason over footage, combined with a high-performance non-linear editor fully in the browser using WebGPU/WebCodecs technology. This allows real-time AI-guided edits that professionals can iterate on rapidly.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're in San Francisco because it's where we live and where the ecosystem and talent for browser and AI tech is strongest. It also positions us close to many potential customers in marketing and media tech.

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Häufig gestellte Fragen

Ist das die echte YC-Bewerbung von Cardboard?

Nein. Y Combinator hält eingereichte Bewerbungen privat. Dies ist eine Rekonstruktion: die echten Fragen des YC-Formulars, beantwortet aus den öffentlichen Daten von Cardboard (Veröffentlichungsnotizen, Gründerhintergründe, Produktbeschreibung). Sie zeigt, wie sich ein Unternehmen wie Cardboard bei YC präsentieren würde, nicht den Text, den sie eingereicht haben.

In welchem YC-Batch war Cardboard?

Cardboard war Teil des Y Combinator Winter 2026-Batches.

Wer hat Cardboard gegründet?

Cardboard wurde von Saksham Aggarwal, Ishan Sharma gegründet.

Was macht Cardboard?

Agentic video editor

Wie lese ich die vollständige, rekonstruierte Bewerbung?

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