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GameStop Refuses to Hit Continue on Its Own Game Over
A mall-era game store that became a stock-market legend is spending its second life buying trading cards, hoarding cash, and daring the market to count it out again.
Fanatics Wants Every Fan Moment - and Every Transaction Around It
The jersey seller has become a sports operating system, linking 100 million-plus fans to merchandise, cards, wagers, events and media. Its next contest is proving that one account can hold all of fandom without flattening what makes fans care.
Courtyard Put the Card Shop in a Vault - Then Added a Buyback Button
The collectible is real. The pack is digital. Courtyard's bet is that the card-shop thrill becomes a much bigger business when storage, resale and even buyer's remorse happen in seconds.
Derek Jeter Wants to Keep Your Cards Out of the Shoebox
The Hall of Fame shortstop and the founder of LegalZoom built a company around a simple frustration: card collecting is a great hobby wrapped in a bad logistics problem. Arena Club grades, vaults, and trades the cards so collectors do not have to.
Every Pokemon Card Runs Through a Belgian Town You've Never Heard Of
The name on the box is Pokemon, Hasbro or Disney. The company that actually prints, cuts and packs the cards is a 250-year-old Belgian manufacturer most players have never heard of.
CollX
CollX is a Philadelphia-area startup whose mobile app lets collectors snap a photo of a sports or trading card and instantly identify it and see its current market value. Built around AI visual search trained on a database of more than 17 million cards, CollX has grown from a quick valuation tool into a full collection-management platform and peer-to-peer marketplace where over 3 million users scan, organize, price, buy, sell, and trade cards. The company monetizes through Pro and Gold subscriptions, marketplace commissions, and referral revenue from hobby partners like PSA, Whatnot, and Fanatics.