America is in an overstock and returns crisis. Every year 8.4 billion pounds of products are returned to online sellers, according to the National Retail Federation. The typical solution from retailers is to send the roughly 17% of their inventory made up of returns to a landfill, regardless of the condition of the products.

It’s a problem that sellers have little incentive to solve. Since dumping product can be written off as the cost of doing business in profit and loss statements, companies don’t invest in a complex reverse supply chain or inspect items for potential resale value.

But recommerce site Rebel just raised a $25 million series B round to fuel its work building a resale network for retailers—and the software to power it. The funding round was led by Jay-Z’s MarcyPen Capital

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