Vardera

Vardera builds the AI infrastructure layer for physical asset valuation. Our deep learning models identify, appraise, and authenticate high-value physical goods from a single image. We compress what used to require years of specialized human expertise into a sub-second API call — turning a subjective, offline workflow into structured, machine-readable intelligence that any platform can consume programmatically. Enterprises like eBay use Vardera to power accurate identification and pricing across millions of items. We're active across coins, trading cards, comics, toys, and jewelry, with signed contracts and proofs of concept already in production. Our reference dataset — built across 200 million+ items — is the core of our competitive moat, and it compounds with every transaction we process. The problem we're solving is foundational: the physical goods economy has never had a reliable, scalable valuation layer. Marketplaces guess. Insurers estimate. Retailers absorb shrink. We fix that. Think of what Stripe did for payments, or what Plaid did for financial data. We're building that infrastructure for the $8+ trillion in hard assets changing hands as industries built on decades of offline expertise go digital for the first time. We're a team of nine, based in Boston, and backed by Garuda Ventures and Rackhouse Ventures. We're pre-Series A, moving fast, and hiring across engineering, AI research, and operations.