• 2010

Company Description

Verba offers tools to university book stores to check competing prices on textbooks that they offer to students.

We started Verba as a Harvard student government project. Our goal: to tackle textbook affordability through radical transparency. Since 2010, we've found campus stores to be the best allies in this fight. Here's a look at Verba by the numbers. 350+ CAMPUSES IN U.S. AND CANADA USING VERBA APPLICATIONS 2.3M STUDENT VISITS TO VERBA COMPARE SITES IN FALL 2013 $63M VALUE OF COURSE MATERIALS CHECKED OUT THROUGH COMPARE IN FALL 2013 49K PRICE CHANGES MADE BY CAMPUS STORES AT VERBA'S RECOMMENDATION IN FALL 2013 Today we're a team of sixteen working to help campus stores fulfill their mission to provide students the best possible college retail experience.