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Cardpool

Cardpool is a gift card exchange marketplace where anybody can buy, sell, or trade their new or pre-owned gift cards. Customers can buy gift cards up to 30% off their face value, sell their gift cards for up to 90% of their face value in cash, trade their gift cards for an Amazon.com Gift Card, or donate their gift card to charity. Cardpool provides free shipping for both buyers and sellers, a 100-day return policy, and policy of only selling gift cards that have no expiration date and no monthl

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Y Combinator
competitors
6
Mapped from High Signal graph features.
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D1 lookup
last updated
2026-07-15
16:41 UTC
source evidence
Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #3249

Cardpool is a gift card exchange marketplace where anybody can buy, sell, or trade their new or pre-owned gift cards. Customers can buy gift cards up to 30% off their face value, sell their gift cards for up to 90% of their face value in cash, trade their gift cards for an Amazon.com Gift Card, or donate their gift card to charity. Cardpool provides free shipping for both buyers and sellers, a 100-day return policy, and policy of only selling gift cards that have no expiration date and no monthl

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High Signal interpretation

Cardpool is classified as E-commerce from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

offline extraction
Product facets
gift cardsCustomersGift Cardsellersbuyersanybody
mapping method
Similarity graph

Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

discovery cluster

Companies similar to Cardpool

E-commerce · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

AptDeco

match 94

AptDeco is a peer-to-peer managed marketplace dedicated for buying and selling quality used furniture. We offer a complete end-to-end process to bring back the joy of discovering amazing furniture finds for the home again. Our customers benefit from a trusted and verified community of buyers and sellers, pre-arranged pick up and delivery and a secure electronic payment process.

shared extracted concepts: customers; shared product terms: marketplace, sell, customer, buyer; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Vendy

match 70

Vendy is a marketplace on WhatsApp. We provide customized WhatsApp shops for sellers, allowing buyers to browse inventory, place orders with automated invoicing, and make payments, all within WhatsApp. No app download or sign-up required.

shared extracted concepts: sellers, buyers; shared product terms: marketplace, up, buyer, seller; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Curtsy

match 66

Curtsy is [an app](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/curtsy-thrifting-delivered/id1029107786) that lets women buy and sell clothing, shoes, and accessories from their phones. Curtsy doesn't hold inventory; all orders ship directly from sellers to buyers. We make money by deducting a 20% fee from each sale. Curtsy's go-to-market strategy has been to focus on ~Gen Z women ages 15-30, who are underserved by the major players in the space like Poshmark and Ebay.

shared extracted concepts: buyers; shared product terms: buy, sell, 30, com; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

TicketRev

match 64

Reverse marketplace for event tickets, buyers create bids on events, enabling sellers to accept a bid and sell their tickets instantly.

shared extracted concepts: sellers, buyers; shared product terms: marketplace, sell, buyer, seller; shared product theme: sales and marketing; same category: E-commerce

Movley

match 61

Movley is your e-commerce brand's product quality control department. Built by sellers, and trusted by 800+ brands. Are you a Shopify or Amazon seller? Sign up in 30 seconds to start monitoring your product quality for free!

shared extracted concepts: sellers; shared product terms: up, 30, amazon, free; shared product theme: sales and marketing; same category: E-commerce; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Blossm

match 35

Community marketplace to buy, sell, and trade plants

shared product terms: marketplace, buy, sell, trade; same category: E-commerce