# Shortboxed

> Shortboxed is a San Francisco mobile marketplace and auction platform where collectors, dealers, and comic shops buy and sell graded and raw comic books. Founded by lifelong collectors Gene Miguel and BJ Abordo, it replaces much of the listing, payment, support, and shipping friction of general-purpose marketplaces with comic-specific workflows, price data, collection tools, and a double-blind transaction model.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Gene Miguel (CEO and Co-founder), BJ Abordo (CTO and Co-founder)
- **Team size:** 7 employees listed on LinkedIn in 2026; third-party company data also describes fewer than 10 employees, while LinkedIn's company-size band is 11-50.
- **Products:** Shortboxed Marketplace, Raw Comic Verification, Shortboxed Auctions, Price Guide and Fair Market Value Data, Portfolio Manager
- **Notable:** Launched publicly at C2E2 in March 2020., Reached tens of thousands of users and more than 10,000 active books by late 2021, according to a founder interview reported by GoCollect., Raised approximately $4.2 million across seed and debt financing reported through 2022.

## Products & services

- **Shortboxed Marketplace** — Mobile and web marketplace for fixed-price sales of graded and raw comic books, with offers, prepaid shipping labels, payment handling, and customer support.
- **Raw Comic Verification** — A workflow for selling non-encapsulated comics, with raw books verified by Shortboxed before delivery to the buyer.
- **Shortboxed Auctions** — Event-style curated auctions, community auctions, and hosted auction tools for collectible comics.
- **Price Guide and Fair Market Value Data** — Free recent-sales history, fair-market-value ranges, and deal indicators drawing on more than one million recorded comic sales across platforms.
- **Portfolio Manager** — Free collection and for-sale inventory organization with estimated portfolio-value tracking.
- **Shortboxed API** — Dealer inventory integration that lets sellers sync catalog data to the marketplace rather than recreate listings manually.
- **PSA x Shortboxed Grade & Sell** — A direct grading-to-auction pathway in which PSA grades and images comics, then sends them to Shortboxed for auction and payout.
- **Infinity Packs** — An app-based discovery format for graded comics introduced in the 4.3 product line.

## Achievements

- Launched publicly at C2E2 in March 2020.
- Reached tens of thousands of users and more than 10,000 active books by late 2021, according to a founder interview reported by GoCollect.
- Raised approximately $4.2 million across seed and debt financing reported through 2022.
- Expanded from graded-only inventory to raw comics with a verification workflow.
- Added event-style and community auctions in 2024.
- Its first announced API dealer integration synced more than 5,000 graded books within hours.
- Reached a platform audience described by PSA in 2026 as more than 100,000 collectors.
- Maintained a 4.8/5 App Store rating across 849 ratings when checked in August 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — PSA and Shortboxed launched a limited Grade & Sell pathway for comics, with direct transfer from grading to a seven-day Shortboxed auction.
- **2025-11** — The app introduced Infinity Packs as a new way to discover graded comics.
- **2025-03** — Shortboxed published a five-year retrospective and continued its Journey into Shortboxed company-update series.
- **2024-07** — The app added event-style consignment auctions, Community Auctions, and a consolidated auction landing page.
- **2024-02** — Shortboxed announced its inventory API and Reece's Rare Comics as the first dealer partner using it.

## Links

- Website: https://shortboxed.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shortboxed
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/shortboxed
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shortboxed/
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/shortboxed/
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@shortboxedcomics

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Last updated: 2026-08-21