Retail ecommerce

CatchBack Cards

Website
Founded 2025Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

CatchBack Cards is a mobile app and website platform for maximizing the thrill of collecting Pokemon and Sports cards. We allow collectors to create custom mystery packs with personalized chases and customized odds with cryptographically trusted tooling. Users can rip open digital packs and get physical cards shipped to them, receive buyback offers on cards pulled from their mystery packs sent straight to Venmo and PayPal, and buy/sell cards in our $1 marketplace.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Joseph Zhang

Founder/CEO

Previously early engineer at a crypto startup building a DEX and NFT launch platform. Former consultant at McKinsey working on AI transformation projects for large enterprises, and software engineer at AWS focused on cloud storage infrastructure. Personally sold over $500K in Pokémon cards, giving deep familiarity with the collectibles ecosystem.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
7team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2025 · Source

News & product activity

Sources & observations

Y Combinator

Profile depthenriched profile
Website observationwebsite reachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
Pricing evidenceA pricing page was detected
Maturity: Not assessed · 4 of 6 areas documented

Source-based assessment · automated evidence rules

The captured homepage does not clearly identify the listed business.

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