Inscrição YC de Wildcard

Winter 2025Active

Wildcard passou pela Y Combinator no batch Winter 2025 como uma empresa B2B. Abaixo: o que a empresa faz, quem a fundou e sua inscrição para a YC, reconstruída pergunta por pergunta no formulário real da YC.

Batch YC: Winter 2025
Indústria: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Tamanho da equipe: 1
Status: Active
Lançada: 2025

Fundadores

Kaushik MahorkerFounder

O que Wildcard faz

Wildcard is the AEO and GEO platform designed specifically for e-commerce and retail brands. We help merchants improve visibility across AI search and AI shopping platforms like ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and Amazon Rufus. Wildcard tracks how brands, categories, collections, and SKUs appear across AI search results, identifies visibility gaps, and turns those insights into actions. We use AI agents to enrich product data, generate SEO, AEO, and GEO content, create collection and comparison pages, build FAQs, and improve off-site discoverability across Reddit, YouTube, blogs, and other sources. As AI shopping evolves, Wildcard is building the infrastructure brands need to win in agentic commerce, including support for emerging standards like the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) and Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP).

Inscrição YC de Wildcard, reconstruída

Inscrição Y Combinator

Wildcard, lote Winter 2025. As verdadeiras perguntas do formulário, respondidas com dados públicos.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Wildcard

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AEO/GEO for E-Commerce and Retail

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

We built Wildcard to help e-commerce and retail brands see how their products, categories, and collections show up across AI-powered shopping and search platforms like ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and Amazon Rufus. Our platform tracks visibility gaps, suggests SEO, AEO, GEO content, and uses AI agents to generate FAQs, comparison pages, and improve discoverability on Reddit, YouTube, blogs, and more. We are also building infrastructure to support upcoming standards like Agentic Commerce Protocol and Universal Commerce Protocol to help brands win in AI-driven commerce.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA and Wildcard is based here and will remain here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and work, and it's where a lot of e-commerce, AI, and retail tech development happens. Being here keeps us close to our customers and partners.

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Perguntas Frequentes

Esta é a inscrição real da YC de Wildcard?

Não. A Y Combinator mantém as inscrições submetidas em privado. Esta é uma reconstrução: as perguntas reais do formulário da YC, respondidas a partir dos dados públicos de Wildcard (notas de lançamento, históricos de fundadores, descrição do produto). Mostra como uma empresa como Wildcard se apresentaria à YC, não o texto que eles submeteram.

Em qual batch da YC Wildcard esteve?

Wildcard fez parte do batch Winter 2025 da Y Combinator.

Quem fundou o Wildcard?

O Wildcard foi fundado por Kaushik Mahorker.

O que o Wildcard faz?

AEO/GEO for E-Commerce and Retail

Como eu leio o application completo reconstruído?

Crie uma conta gratuita no Round Funded. A versão completa de 26 respostas do application do Wildcard, e de todos os outros lotes do YC, está no YC Insights.