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Vetted

AI shopping assistant that researches reviews, prices, and comparisons to recommend the best products.
Ecommerce 📍 San Francisco, USA Founded 2017
Current Valuation
Private
as of 2022-Q3
PRIVATE

IPO Outlookprivate

Is Vetted going public?
No. Vetted is private and has not filed to go public. There is no S-1 on file.
What is Vetted's valuation in 2026?
No confirmed valuation is on record for Vetted. The roster shows funding and investors where they are public; it does not estimate a mark.
Has Vetted filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Vetted.
Who are Vetted's investors?
Vetted's investors include Insight Partners, Y Combinator.
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.
Vetted (formerly Lustre) is an AI-powered shopping assistant that aggregates reviews from trusted sources, compares prices, and recommends the best products for a shopper's needs. Distributes via mobile apps and a browser extension; positioned against Perplexity Shopping and Amazon's Rufus as a neutral, review-led product-discovery agent.

Company Profile

CEO
Tom Raleigh
Founded
2017
HQ
San Francisco, USA
Employees
~25
Total Raised
$15M
Last Round
Series A — $14M (Aug 2022) · Lead: Insight Partners
IPO Status
private

Fundraising Status

Series A · $14M · 4y ago
privateTotal raised $15M

Latest Funding Round

RoundAmountDateLead InvestorPost-Money
Series A$14MAug 2022Insight Partners—

Vertical Intelligence — AI / ML

No verified Hugging Face organization found for Vetted — no attributable open-model footprint. Closed-weights labs are common; this is a distribution signal, not a capability judgment.
Checked huggingface.co as of 2026-08-20. Re-checked weekly.

Talent Signal

Hiring trend
● First snapshot
trend accrues with monthly sweeps
Open roles
64
via careers page
Product-build share
56%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
product-led hiring — 56% of open roles build product; the rest are go-to-market and G&A.
Actively hiring with no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by month64Aug '26
Open roles by function
Open roles by functionDesign13Ops & People11Engineering11Sales & GTM8Product7Data & ML5Marketing4Finance & Strategy4Support1
■ product-building   ■ go-to-market / G&A
Chargeback Data Analyst (MX)Production Brand Designer (Part-time & REMOTE)Junior Software Engineer JobsRemote Software Engineer JobsRemote Product Manager JobsRemote Data Analyst Jobs
Counted from Vetted's live job board as of 2026-08-17; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.

Founders & Key People

Tom RaleighTim Etler

Investors

Insight Partners · Y Combinator

Products

  • Vetted AI Shopping Agent
  • Browser extension
  • Mobile app (iOS/Android)

Competitors

Perplexity Shopping · Google Shopping · Amazon Rufus · Wirecutter
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Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2022-Q3. Refreshed quarterly.