Channel3 Blog · Jun 2026
Channel3 added beta color filtering to product search using hex palettes in the API.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
Channel3 is a New York–based agentic commerce startup building a product graph/API that makes product catalogs machine-readable for AI agents and shoppers.
Primary product
Channel3 API / universal product graph for agentic commerce
Founded
2025
Headquarters
New York, New York, United States
Team size
1-10
Work style
Onsite
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
Agentic commerce infrastructure; product search API
Offices
54 W 21st St, Flatiron, New York, NY
Business model
API
freemium
usage-based SaaS
affiliate revenue share
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$6.6M
Latest round
Seed · Dec 2025
Latest amount
$6M
People & investors
Leadership
Co-Founder, CEO
Co-Founder, CTO
Founding Engineer
Work & culture
Small, fast-moving, builder-centric NYC startup focused on AI shopping infrastructure and shipping product quickly; public hiring signals suggest a hands-on, in-person culture.
Work style
Onsite
Visa sponsorship
No
Compensation
Public backend-engineer listing shows $120K-$200K base salary, 0.50%-1.00% equity, full-time in-person work in Flatiron NYC, and no visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Dinner Monday through Thursday
Snacks
Product & market
Pricing
Freemium usage-based API with credits, plus revenue share on commissions
Differentiators
- —Real-time product graph with current prices, availability, and rich metadata
- —Multimodal normalization and duplicate/variant matching across merchants
- —Built-in affiliate monetization and payouts
- —AI-ready distribution for brands across major AI shopping surfaces
- —One API for developers plus brand tools for catalog optimization
- —Semantic search and image search support
- —MCP server and SDKs for AI-agent integration
Technology
React
TypeScript
Python
Stripe
Clerk
OpenAI
Node.js
Deno
Bun
Cloudflare Workers
Vercel Edge Runtime
Stainless
Customers
Developers building AI shopping apps and agents
Brands and merchants that want to appear on AI shopping platforms
Publishers / affiliate partners monetizing product referrals
Competitors
Google Shopping / Google Shopping Graph
Shopify Catalog
Web scraping and SERP scrapers
Brand-specific APIs and affiliate/product feeds
Scale & contact
Estimated monthly visits
14K
Latest news
Channel3 LinkedIn · May 2026
Channel3 introduced a visibility tool to show when and how brands appear across AI platforms, tied to its 100M+ product index.
Channel3 Blog · May 2026
Channel3 says it was named to Awin's Power 100 of top affiliate partners, highlighting its role in affiliate-driven agentic commerce.
Channel3 LinkedIn · Mar 2026
Channel3 posted that v1 of its Product Search API shipped, with faster responses and pagination on search.
Channel3 Blog · Mar 2026
Channel3 launched an MCP server so AI agents can search real products, current prices, images, and availability in real time.
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