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tash launch: what they're building and where to launch next

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What they're building

The investment platform for sports & trading cards

Batch
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Industry
Consumer
Team size
4
Based
San Francisco, CA, USA

Founders

tash.cards ↗

See their funding details ↗

tash on the record

What they shipped

  • From its YC profile: tash is building the investment platform for sports and trading cards. We create professionally constructed portfolios of iconic, investment-grade cards, giving investors exposure to the asset class without the hassle of selecting, buying, storing, and selling individual cards. Trading card investing remains fragmented, opaque, and difficult to access. tash is building the infrastructure to make the asset class simpler, more transparent, and professionally managed. We are currently pursuing SEC qualification to launch regulated investment offerings backed by trading cards. (source)
  • Its own site describes it as: "Buy shares of professionally managed card indexes. The same discipline as an ETF, applied to the world’s most iconic cards." (source)

Who is behind it

  • John Ohannesian, Founder/CEO: Co-Founder @ tash, Ex-IB & UC Berkeley, working towards bringing collectibles to the public markets (source)
  • Nathan Borshell, Founder/CTO: Co-Founder at tash (S26). Previously at UBS Global Markets and Seso. Economics and Data Science at UC Berkeley. (source)
  • Victor Shammas, Founder/CPO: UC Berkeley Business & Data Science, Co-Founder @ tash, building the public markets for collectibles. (source)
  • Nicolas Sharma, Founder/COO: Co-Founder @ tash. Previously at J.P. Morgan and Capgemini. Econ + Business + Data Science at UC Berkeley. (source)

Timeline

  1. 2026: founded, per its YC profile. (source)

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Where else to launch tash

  • Indie Hackers Forum ↗
    Self-promotion allowed
    Audience: IndieHackers; bootstrapped solo founders sharing revenue and behind-the-scenes
  • BetaList ↗
    Self-promotion allowedPaid
    Audience: Directory listing surface; cold readers scanning categories
  • CoFoundersLab ↗
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    Audience: Directory listing surface; cold readers scanning categories
  • Hacker News (Show HN) ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Hacker News readers; engineers, technical founders, infra-curious people
  • Invincible Product Hunters (Global) ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Telegram channel readers; URL-first, attention-light
  • Launching Next ↗
    Self-promotion allowedFree, with paid options
    Audience: Directory listing surface; cold readers scanning categories
  • LaunchPedia ↗
    Self-promotion allowed
    Audience: Directory listing surface; cold readers scanning categories
  • MicroLaunch ↗
    Self-promotion allowedFree, with paid options
    Audience: Directory listing surface; cold readers scanning categories

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