Cardboard YC 申请

Winter 2026Active

Cardboard 在 Winter 2026 批次的 Y Combinator 中作为一家 B2B 公司进行过。以下是：公司做什么、谁创立了它，以及其 YC 申请，按照真实 YC 表格逐题重建。

YC 批次: Winter 2026
行业: B2B
团队规模: 4
状态: Active
已发布: 2026

创始人

Saksham AggarwalFounder
Ishan SharmaFounder

Cardboard 做什么

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.

Cardboard 的 YC 申请，重建版

Y Combinator 申请

Cardboard，Winter 2026 期。来自公开数据的真实申请问题解答。

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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Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference 包含在完整版中。创建免费账户即可在 YC Insights 中打开，紧邻每个其他 YC 批次。

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常见问题解答

这是 Cardboard 的真实 YC 申请吗？

不是。Y Combinator 对提交的申请保密。这是重建版：使用 Cardboard 的公开数据（发布笔记、创始人背景、产品描述）回答真实的 YC 表格问题。它展示了像 Cardboard 这样的公司会如何向 YC 自我介绍，而不是他们提交的文本。

Cardboard 是哪个 YC 批次的？

Cardboard 是 Y Combinator Winter 2026 批次的成员。

谁创立了 Cardboard？

Cardboard 由 Saksham Aggarwal, Ishan Sharma 创立。

Cardboard 做什么？