CollX - Card scanning & valuation

CollX (pronounced “collects”) addresses the common inquiry of every collector: “What’s its worth?” This app allows you to scan a wide variety of cards; it isn’t limited to baseball cards alone! You can scan football, wrestling, hockey, soccer, and basketball cards, along with trading card game cards such as Pokémon, Magic, and Yu-Gi-Oh!. Instantly identify each card and access the average market value. After scanning, you can incorporate your cards into your collection and monitor your portfolio. With the release of version 2.0, CollX introduces a marketplace where you can buy cards using a credit card, receive shipping and tracking info, and even earn cash by selling your cards to fellow collectors. Transform your hobby into a side venture!

FEATURES

COLLX SPORTS AND TCG SCANNER

The visual search technology in CollX quickly identifies and matches against an extensive database of over 17 million sports cards and trading cards. Once the best match is determined, you'll immediately receive the current average market price for that particular card. Our advanced deep-learning models were developed by a team with more than ten years of experience in image recognition technology. In addition to recognizing most raw cards, CollX can also identify graded cards with barcodes, as well as parallel and reprint versions.

BUY AND SELL

A new feature in version 2.0 is the Marketplace, providing the capability to purchase cards with a credit card, Apple Pay, CollX Credit, and your app balance. Take advantage of Deals to bundle multiple cards together and propose offers to sellers. As a seller, you have various shipping choices, including the CollX Envelope, which offers tracked shipping for as little as $0.75! Additional seller tools allow you to apply bulk discounts and choose whether to accept offers. Transactions through the CollX Marketplace are protected under CollX Protect policy, ensuring payments are only released upon the cards reaching the buyer, giving confidence to both parties involved in a transaction.

GET HISTORICAL PRICING

CollX utilizes millions of historical auction prices to derive a card’s average value. As you add more cards to your collection, you will witness the increase in your overall portfolio value. Set specific conditions or grades on your cards for more precise pricing. As the value of your cards fluctuates, CollX aids you in monitoring both individual card values and the total value of your portfolio. No longer will you have to question the value of your Pokémon card!

BUILD YOUR CARD COLLECTION

Organize and manage your card values efficiently. You can view your collection in various formats — as a grid, list, or grouped as sets. Additionally, filtering and sorting options based on criteria like value, date added, year, and team are available. With CollX Pro, exporting your collection as a CSV is possible. You can also check your sets, track your progress towards completion, and create printable checklists to aid in finding cards you need to complete a set.

SEARCH CARDS

Explore over 17 million cards in our comprehensive database. Discover cards currently listed for sale right within the search results. If you locate a card that you own but aren't able to scan at the moment, you can easily add it from any entry in the CollX database.

How CollX Works

Snap a photo of your trading card

Scan any sports card or TCG card to instantly recognize it against our database of every known card. An illustration of hand holding phone to capture a photo of a collage of trading cards Mockup of a card record with set, player number, player name and price info.

Get the market value in seconds

Get the average value of your card, based on all recent transactions from marketplaces. 

Build your collection and track the portfolio value 

Track your cards and total collection value over time. Filter, sort, and search your cards.

An illustration of the card collection screen

Stay connected with the community. Connect with collectors. Message other users about their cards, make offers to buy, sell, or trade.

Buy and sell cards.

Get top dollar by getting yours graded. Unload and acquire cards, and negotiate multi-card transactions with our Deals interface.

NEWS

CollX raises $10M to grow its card collection marketplace

Ivan Mehta 7:26 AM PST · March 7, 2025

CollX, a company offering an online trading card marketplace, has raised $10 million in Series A funding. The round was co-led by Austin-based Brand Foundry Ventures and Philadelphia-based 114 Ventures, both of which were previous investors in the company.

Other investors such as Next Coast Ventures, FJ Labs, and Ben Franklin Technology Partners also participated in the round.

The startup also added a key partner, Kansas City Royals baseball player Bobby Witt Jr. — a card collector himself — who joined the round as an investor, advisor, and brand ambassador. To date, CollX has raised over $15 million across multiple rounds.

The collectible cards market in the U.S. is showing promising signs of expansion and will grow by several billion in the next few years, according to multiple reports. CollX wants to take advantage of that and grow its solutions for scanning and trading cards.

The company now has over 3 million users, up from 600,000 in 2023. It offers tools to scan your cards and upload your collection, look at collections from other users, and trade cards through its marketplace.

The company’s CEO Ted Mann said that the app has 400,000 monthly active users. The marketplace hosts 30,000 buyers and 20,000 sellers on the platform, with 20% growth month on month.

Since its seed round in 2023, the company has made a few changes to its platform and created new revenue streams. First, it refers users to Professional Sports Authenticator’s (PSA) card grading services, which evaluates a collectible card’s condition and gives it a score.

“These grading companies asses the card’s condition, including corners, edges, and centering and gives it a score. The graded cards with good scores often get high appreciation as compared to ungraded cards. So it’s a win for a user,” Mann said.

The company also partners with live shopping platforms such as Whatnot and Fanatics for card trading.

Plus, it redirects users to the trading card manufacturers like Topps to buy box sets. CollX takes cuts for all these transactions. The company facilitates transactions between users for a 10% commission.

“It has been tough to build a marketplace. But we hone into the data of knowing your collection, and also suggesting you other sellers and cards if you have stated your goals about collecting certain cards. So when you add a card to your cart from a user, we show you other cards from that collection that you might be interested in,” Mann said.

After its seed raise in 2023, CollX rolled out a pro subscription that costs $10 a month or $100 a year. With that, users get a $10 credit for the marketplace, adding unlimited items (instead of 500), print checklist, export collection, set bulk pricing, and a LinkedIn-styled who viewed my card feature.

It is 2025, so there is an AI feature in the app as well. Users can ask the chatbot, powered by OpenAI’s models, about building their collections, pricing their cards right, and if a particular card is worth grading.

The company still has a Card Dealer Pro offering that allows users or shops with very large collections to scan and digitally upload their collections rapidly.

Mann said that both the CollX Pro and Card Dealer Pro count toward the bulk of revenue for the company, but noted that revenue from marketplace transactions is growing and would overtake subscription revenue eventually.

There is competition for CollX in terms of high-end trading card platform Alt, card scanning app Ludex, and sports card marketplace ComC. Mann believes that his startup is different because it offers a wider range of cards and solutions for collectors.

Mann said that the startup is not yet profitable, but by the end of this year, it will make a decision about if it wants to choose the path to profitability or wants to accelerate user and marketplace growth.

He added that the company plans to roll out features like new product types in marketplaces, full inventory management across marketplaces for the Card Dealer Pro product, 1-click grading submission to grading agneices, and a web version of CollX.