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Courtyard.io

Courtyard.io (YC W’22) turns shopping into entertainment. Open digital packs to instantly reveal physical trading cards, comics, watches, and more. Keep what you love – securely vaulted, insured, and ready to ship – or sell back instantly at a guaranteed price. Expanding across new collectibles, fashion, and beyond, Courtyard is pioneering a new model of shopping where entertainment drives demand and liquidity backs every purchase.

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Evidence entries preserved.
affiliations
1
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 #4864

Courtyard.io (YC W’22) turns shopping into entertainment. Open digital packs to instantly reveal physical trading cards, comics, watches, and more. Keep what you love – securely vaulted, insured, and ready to ship – or sell back instantly at a guaranteed price. Expanding across new collectibles, fashion, and beyond, Courtyard is pioneering a new model of shopping where entertainment drives demand and liquidity backs every purchase.

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High Signal interpretation

Courtyard.io is classified as AI infrastructure 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
fashionwatchescomicsphysical trading cardsnew collectiblesshoppingCourtyard.ioentertainmententertainment
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 Courtyard.io

AI infrastructure · 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.

Whatnot

match 61

Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in the U.S., connecting buyers and sellers in real-time across any category – from collectibles like trading cards to comics, fashion, sneakers, and more.

shared extracted concepts: fashion; shared product terms: shopp, trad, card, comic; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Amplitude

match 52

Since graduating from YC, Amplitude (W12) has made it to IPO and beyond by helping cutting edge startups become category leaders. We’ve pioneered the digital analytics category to become the go-to solution for AI pioneers (Cruise, Midjourney), apps that touch millions of consumers (Doordash, Coinbase), and the best in B2B (Atlassian, Rippling, Canva). With product analytics, experiment, CDP, session replay, and more, Amplitude’s digital analytics platform shows you what your users love, where th

shared product terms: yc, beyond, pioneer, digital; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Channel3

match 43

Channel3 is building a database of every product on the internet. Google and OpenAI maintain vast product graphs, but keep that valuable data to themselves. Channel3 gives every developer access, opening a world of possibility for new shopping experiences across any vertical. For instance, developers could build AI fashion stylists or give their agents shopping capabilities. We don’t just collect product data; we actually understand it. With the latest image classification and reasoning models,

shared extracted concept terms: shopp; shared product terms: keep, shopp, fashion, model; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Kisura

match 34

Digital shopping assistant for female fashion.

shared extracted concept terms: fashion; shared product terms: digital, shopp, fashion

Dhahaby

match 32

Collateralized loans backed by physical or digital gold, gemstones, jewelry, and watches.

shared product terms: back, physical, digital, watche

Gone

match 16

Price, resell, ship, recycle

shared product terms: price, ship