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Channel3

Category: AI Infrastructure

Universal product database and API enabling AI agents and apps to search, recommend, and monetize products from any merchant. Channel3 was founded in 2025. The company is led by Alexander Schiff. Based in New York, USA. Team size: 1-10. Total funding raised: $6,000,000. Latest round: Seed. Key investors include Matrix Partners, Y Combinator, Ludlow Ventures, Paul Graham, Taro Fukuyama, Sri Batchu, Matteo Franceschetti.

Founded
2025
Headquarters
New York, USA
Team size
1-10
Total funding
$6,000,000

Value proposition

Provides a single API to access clean, real-time product data (pricing, inventory, variants) with built-in affiliate monetization, solving the data fragmentation problem for AI agents.

Products and solutions

Universal Product API, Real-time Product Graph, Affiliate Monetization Engine, AI-Ready Product Data

Unique value

Channel3 democratizes access to a 'Google-scale' product graph for independent developers, specifically optimized for agentic commerce rather than human browsing.

Target customer

AI Developers, Agent Builders, E-commerce Platforms

Industries served

E-commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, AdTech

Technology advantage

Uses multimodal AI (vision + reasoning) to match and deduplicate products across disparate merchants automatically. Business model aligns with developers via built-in commission sharing.

How they differentiate

Unlike walled gardens (Google/Amazon) that restrict data use, Channel3 is an open infrastructure specifically designed for third-party AI agents to transact and earn revenue.

Main competitors

Google Shopping Graph, Amazon Product Advertising API, OpenAI Product Graph (Internal), Perplexity Commerce

Key partnerships

Y Combinator, Matrix Partners, Awin

Notable customers

AI Agent Developers, Shopping Assistants, Content Creators

Major milestones

Founded in 2025, Accepted into Y Combinator S25, Raised $6M Seed Round (Dec 2025), Named to Awin Power 100 (May 2026)

Growth metrics

YC S25; team size 5 (YC); $6M seed (Dec 2025); catalog marketed at 100M+ products; Awin Power 100 (May 2026).

Market positioning

The neutral 'Switzerland' of product data for the AI agent era.

Geographic focus

Global (Digital Infrastructure), HQ in New York, USA

Patents and IP

None disclosed (Early stage)

About Alexander Schiff

Former Product Manager at Microsoft and AI Project Lead at Studio.com. Experienced in building AI-driven product applications.

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