# Courtyard

> Courtyard is a consumer marketplace that turns authenticated physical collectibles into instantly tradable digital inventory. Shoppers open digital mystery packs containing real graded cards, comics, watches or coins, then keep the item insured in Courtyard's vault, list it with no seller fee, trade it, redeem it for delivery or take an immediate buyback. The company hides most of its blockchain plumbing and sells discovery, convenience and liquidity instead.

- **Founded:** 2021
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Nicolas le Jeune (Co-founder and CEO), Paulin Andurand (Co-founder and CTO)
- **Team size:** Approximately 87-90 employees in 2026; LinkedIn lists 87 and Y Combinator lists 90.
- **Products:** Connected Collectibles, Marketplace, Digital Vending Machine, Courtyard Vault, Courtyard mobile apps
- **Notable:** Selected for Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch., Sold $500,000 of physically backed graded Pokémon cards in under four hours in 2022., Raised $7 million in seed funding led by NEA in 2022.

## Products & services

- **Connected Collectibles** — A one-to-one digital ownership record and high-resolution representation for an authenticated physical collectible held in an insured vault and redeemable by its owner.
- **Marketplace** — A marketplace for vaulted collectibles with zero seller fees, instant settlement and no repeated shipping between trades.
- **Digital Vending Machine** — Mystery packs that reveal a real graded collectible with published value bands and an immediate buyback option.
- **Courtyard Vault** — A dedicated Delaware facility designed for collectibles, with insured storage, temperature control, submissions and fulfillment.
- **Courtyard mobile apps** — iOS and Android apps for opening packs, tracking collections, buying, selling and redeeming on a phone.
- **Direct Trading** — Collector-to-collector swaps of one or more vaulted items, optionally balanced with cash, without shipping the underlying objects.

## Achievements

- Selected for Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch.
- Sold $500,000 of physically backed graded Pokémon cards in under four hours in 2022.
- Raised $7 million in seed funding led by NEA in 2022.
- Put more than 500,000 physical collectibles onchain and generated more than 1.9 million transactions during 2024, according to Polygon Labs.
- Reported growth from roughly $50,000 to $50 million in monthly GMV between January 2024 and July 2025.
- Raised a $30 million Series A led by Forerunner Ventures in July 2025.
- Expanded beyond trading cards into comics, watches, coins and sports memorabilia.
- Released mobile apps and surpassed 100,000 Android downloads.
- Launched direct collector-to-collector trading in May 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2025-02** — Announced a dedicated, temperature-controlled Courtyard vault in Delaware to improve redemptions, capacity and collector submissions.
- **2025-07** — Raised a $30 million Series A led by Forerunner and reported $50 million in monthly GMV.
- **2025-08** — Rolled out its mobile app for collecting, marketplace activity and redemptions.
- **2026-05** — Launched direct trading with multi-item swaps, optional cash balancing and instant settlement.
- **2026-06** — Added certified coin packs and used domain experts and third-party grading to enter numismatics.
- **2026-06** — Introduced Courtyard Rewards with tiered perks including packs and shipping benefits.
- **2026-07** — Added authenticated soccer memorabilia as hidden bounties across a Pokémon pack collection.

## Links

- Website: https://courtyard.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/courtyard
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/courtyard_io
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@courtyard_io
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/courtyard.io
- TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@courtyard.io

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Last updated: 2026-08-14