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: 2. Total funding raised: $6,000,000. Latest round: Seed. Key investors include ["Matrix Partners","Ludlow Ventures","Paul Graham","Taro Fukuyama","Sri Batchu","Matteo Franceschetti"].
- Founded
- 2025
- Headquarters
- New York, USA
- Team size
- 2
- 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"]
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)"]
Growth metrics
2-person team, YC S25 Batch, recently closed $6M seed immediately following inception in 2025.
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.
Official website: https://trychannel3.com/