Ted MannCo Founder

United States - Greater Philadelphia

I believe the connected camera is one of the most enabling technologies of our time. And I've built four technology companies, which show that — with coupons, products, parts, and now collectibles.

Currently I'm Co-Founder and CEO of CollX, an app that let's any collector answer the age-old question: "What's it worth?!" We're solving this problem first for sports cards. Scan any card and the CollX app will instantly identify it and give you the market price. From there you can build your collection, connect with other collectors, and buy, sell or trade. We'll expand to trading card games, comics, video games, and other collectibles soon!

Prior to CollX, I co-founded Partium, a SaaS provider of visual search for parts. Our technology was capable of recognizing exact parts, leveraging both computer vision as well as a part-metadata AI. We provided this tech through SDKs, APIs, and white-label apps to solve part-search problems for companies like Home Depot, Deutsche Bahn, Bosch, FindItParts, and IBM.

Prior to Partium, I was CEO of Slyce, the market leader in image recognition and visual search. Slyce has created the first computer vision system for visual product search, has led to customers like Nordstrom, Macy's, Tommy Hilfiger, Neiman Marcus, Best Buy, and Urban Outfitters deploying our image recognition in their apps. I came to Slyce via the acquisition of SnipSnap, the coupon app business I founded. Slyce was acquired by Syte in 2021.

SnipSnap was the first mobile app to let consumers save printed coupons to their smartphone and redeem in store. We utilized several image recognition techniques to instantly transform a scanned paper coupon into a mobile-optimized offer, which could be scanned and redeemed in store. At the time SnipSnap was acquired, it was profitable and we'd grown the app to 5 million users, who redeemed more than 250 million coupons. The company was started at the DreamIt Ventures accelerator in Philadelphia and launched in May 2012.

Prior to starting SnipSnap, I was Digital Development Director at Gannett, where I led development of the company's first hyperlocal network, daily deal websites, and blog operations, in addition to managing the core news websites. I began my time in the news industry as a writer and editor, having worked for publications including The Atlantic Monthly, The Journal News, and InTown Magazine.