About
Misprint is an all-in-one marketplace for collectors, investors, and hobbyists to buy, sell, and value trading cards, initially focused on Pokémon. It differentiates itself through real-time pricing analytics and transparent valuations designed to address the fragmented, opaque pricing data common in collectibles markets.
Market
Misprint competes in the consumer trading-card and collectibles market, initially focused on Pokémon cards, where collectors and resellers need both reliable valuation and efficient transactions. It positions itself as a stock-exchange-like marketplace that combines ML-backed, real-time pricing with bid/ask matching and rapid image-based listing, differentiating it from broad marketplaces, live-auction platforms, and traditional high-end collectibles auction houses that do not center the same integrated real-time pricing workflow.
Misprint primarily targets individual Pokémon-card collectors, investors, and hobbyists, especially buyers and sellers of graded, authenticated, ungraded, and sealed products. Its consumer marketplace also serves active resellers who need faster listing and more transparent price discovery; the evidence does not indicate a specific company-size segment.
At a Glance
Problem
Misprint addresses opaque and inefficient pricing in the Pokémon collectibles market. Collectors currently piece together inconsistent information from eBay, auction houses, and forums, while existing marketplaces generally lack real-time analytics and may show biased or outdated prices. The result is uncertainty about what a card is worth and auctions that can close below market value.
The clearest use case is a high-volume collector or seller who needs to price and list many cards quickly without sacrificing value. Misprint was born from that problem: its founder reported selling more than $40,000 of cards per month with $16,000–$20,000 in profit, while finding inventory sourcing inefficient, listings slow, and pricing difficult to manage. The pain therefore has both a labor cost and a direct risk of leaving money on the table.
Product / Service
Misprint is an online and mobile marketplace for Pokémon cards that combines machine-learning pricing analytics with a two-sided bid/ask exchange. It analyzes millions of data points, including auction results, grading data, and past sales, to produce real-time, data-backed valuations. Sellers post asks at their desired prices; buyers can purchase immediately or submit lower bids, with the platform matching bids and offers in real time.
The product is designed to make trading faster, more transparent, and less dependent on haggling or specialist knowledge. Misprint says sellers can list more than ten cards from a single photo and do so more than 20 times faster than on competing platforms. Its seller monetization is transaction-based: the help center states a 7% platform fee plus 3% and $0.30 payment processing, or 10% plus $0.30 per sale.
Market
Misprint competes in the online secondary market for trading cards and collectibles, initially focusing on Pokémon cards, including graded cards and sealed products. Its closest broad marketplace competitors are eBay and TCGplayer: eBay offers a very large, general-purpose collectibles marketplace, while TCGplayer is a major trading-card marketplace spanning Pokémon and other games. Misprint differentiates around real-time pricing, bid/ask matching, and faster listing rather than simply providing another fixed-price listing catalog. The underlying opportunity is substantial; Y Combinator describes the global collectibles market as worth tens of billions of dollars.
Misprint is an early-stage but launched company rather than an unlaunched concept. Y Combinator lists it as founded in 2025, part of Winter 2025, active, and based in New York City; its product is also available through iOS and Android. The gathered evidence does not disclose Misprint-specific users, GMV, or revenue, so its traction is best characterized as qualitative: an active YC-backed marketplace with live apps and a founding team that had already demonstrated demand by selling Pokémon cards at significant volume. The evidence does not support labeling the company definitively pre-revenue, but it also does not establish operating scale.
Founders & Leadership
Funding History
Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund
Recent News
The Misprint app is described as a bid/ask marketplace for graded trading cards and sealed products. Its beta automated scanner lets users photograph a card and automatically load its details, reducing listing time.
Misprint’s guide explains what misprint and error Pokémon cards are, how printing errors occur, and which types may have collectible value.
Misprint published an explainer presenting the company as a legitimate Pokémon-card marketplace used by thousands of collectors. The article also provides background on founder Eva Herget and explains how the marketplace protects users.
A F6S company profile describes Misprint as an online Pokémon-card marketplace where collectors and sellers can list, buy, and sell graded, ungraded, and sealed cards and supplies.
Startup Intros profiled Jonathan Jenkins as Misprint’s co-founder and chief technology officer, describing Misprint as a graded trading-card marketplace backed by Y Combinator.
Active Roles
2Business Model
Misprint operates a direct-to-consumer trading-card marketplace where users buy, sell, and trade collectibles. Its transactional marketplace activity is the stated revenue stream, complemented by pricing analytics and valuation insights that support trading decisions.