Misprint YC Application

Winter 2025Active

Misprint went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2025 batch as a Consumer company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Winter 2025
Industry: Consumer
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Eva HergetFounder

What Misprint does

Misprint is an all-in-one marketplace that solves the biggest pain point in the collectibles world: opaque pricing. Collectors, investors, and hobbyists currently rely on scattered data from auction houses, online forums, and reseller platforms, making it difficult to know the true value of their items. Misprint streamlines the process by combining accurate pricing analytics with a seamless buy/sell marketplace, making it easier than ever to understand and monetize collectible assets. Existing marketplaces lack robust, real-time analytics because accurate valuations require deep expertise in both the collectibles domain and advanced pricing algorithms. Misprint’s unique blend of insider trading card knowledge and machine learning allows us to fill this gap. Building these pricing models requires extensive data infrastructure, deep domain expertise, and cutting-edge ML. Recent surges in the trading card market show that collectors crave transparent valuations. The global collectibles market is worth tens of billions of dollars. Eva has experienced the scale of this industry firsthand, generating $500k ARR within three months of taking her Pokemon card-selling side hustle full-time. With additional segments like sports cards, comics, and emerging collectible categories, the growth runway is immense. Co-founders Eva and Jon have been best friends since Exeter, combining finance expertise, a passion for collectibles, and mathematical rigor. By merging Goldman Sachs-level financial analytics with top-tier mathematical talent, Misprint is uniquely positioned to become the go-to platform for fair, transparent pricing in the collectibles space.

Misprint's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Misprint, Winter 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Misprint

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Robinhood for Pokemon cards

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

We are building an all-in-one marketplace that combines real-time pricing analytics with a platform to buy and sell Pokemon cards. Our product solves the problem of opaque pricing by aggregating and analyzing data that is currently scattered across auctions, forums, and reseller sites, giving collectors and investors transparent, accurate valuations and a reliable marketplace.

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

We live and work in New York, NY, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York is where we both live and have strong networks. It's also a major center for finance and collectibles culture, which fits our blend of finance expertise and trading card knowledge.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Misprint YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Misprint's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Misprint would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.