# Arena Club

> Arena Club is a Los Angeles startup co-founded by Baseball Hall of Famer Derek Jeter and serial entrepreneur Brian Lee that turns the messy world of trading cards into a single digital app. Collectors submit raw cards, get them graded by AI-assisted computer vision, and store them in an insured vault while a digital 'Showroom' displays the collection and a marketplace lets people buy, sell, and trade the physical cards without ever shipping them around.

- **Founded:** 2021
- **Headquarters:** Los Angeles, California, United States
- **Founders:** Brian Lee (Co-Founder & CEO), Derek Jeter (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** ~130 employees
- **Products:** AI-Assisted Card Grading, Digital Vault, Showroom, Marketplace, Slab Packs
- **Notable:** Launched publicly in September 2022 with Hall of Famer Derek Jeter as co-founder, Raised a $10M Series A led by M13, defy.vc, Lightspeed, Elysian Park Ventures, and BAM Ventures, bringing total funding to ~$20M, Built a patent-pending Slab Packs system that brought published odds and transparency to the repack category

## Products & services

- **AI-Assisted Card Grading** — Collectors submit raw cards and receive grades from a process that combines computer vision and machine learning with expert human graders, with a detailed grading breakdown for transparency.
- **Digital Vault** — Graded and purchased cards can be stored in a secure, insured, temperature- and moisture-controlled facility under 24/7 video surveillance instead of being shipped to the owner.
- **Showroom** — A digital display of a collector's graded and vaulted cards, organizable by player, team, set, or theme - a modern version of the collector's binder.
- **Marketplace** — A fixed-price and auction marketplace for buying, selling, and trading real, physical vaulted cards across sports and entertainment, including Pokemon, Star Wars, Disney, One Piece, and soccer.
- **Slab Packs** — Patent-pending digitized 'repacks' of pre-graded cards with transparent, published odds, adding gamified pack-opening to the platform.
- **Mobile App** — Native iOS and Android app for grading submission, marketplace trading, Slab Packs, and Showroom management.

## Achievements

- Launched publicly in September 2022 with Hall of Famer Derek Jeter as co-founder
- Raised a $10M Series A led by M13, defy.vc, Lightspeed, Elysian Park Ventures, and BAM Ventures, bringing total funding to ~$20M
- Built a patent-pending Slab Packs system that brought published odds and transparency to the repack category
- Grew a marketplace catalog to 400,000+ cards across sports and entertainment
- Signed official partnerships with the Philadelphia Eagles and Fulham FC

## Latest updates

- **2025-01** — Additional funding activity reported; continued platform and partnership expansion.
- **2024-01** — Launched native mobile app (iOS and Android) covering grading, marketplace, and Slab Packs.
- **2024-06** — Expanded Slab Packs into soccer, One Piece, Disney, and Star Wars Galaxy categories.
- **2023-01** — Partnerships with the Philadelphia Eagles and Fulham FC expanded reach into the NFL and UK soccer.

## Links

- Website: https://arenaclub.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/goarenaclub
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/ArenaClub
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arenaclub

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Last updated: 2026-08-14