Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA) Acquires Genamint
April 21, 2021
Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA), a division of Collectors Universe, has acquired Genamint, Inc., a machine-vision software company that provides real-time card diagnostics, measurements and card fingerprinting to scale and improve trading-card grading. Genamint founder Kevin Lenane joins PSA as VP of Product Management and the Genamint team will integrate with PSA to help increase throughput, accuracy and tracking of provenance amid record submission volumes.
- Buyers
- Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA), Collectors Universe / Collectors Holdings, Inc.
- Targets
- Genamint, Inc.
- Industry
- Software
- Location
- New York, United States
- Transaction Type
- Buyout
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