Rye

Rye (rye.com) is a legitimate, venture-backed e-commerce infrastructure startup that raised $14M (led by a16z) to build a unified shopping API. The project has high real-world utility and technical innovation potential, solving market fragmentation. However, the submission itself contained extremely low-quality data (e.g., 'most people have used my product', 'all time marketcap: null'), which severely penalized the Response Quality and Traction verification scores. The final score reflects the high potential of the actual company balanced against the lack of verifiable evidence provided in the submission.