| Website | art.sy |
| @artsy | |
| Category | Consumer Web |
| Employees | 18 |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Description | Discover fine art. |
| Total | $7.41M |
| Debt, 6/10 | $160k |
| Angel, 11/10 Thrive Capital Eric Schmidt Wendi Murdoch Jim Breyer Jack Dorsey Founder Collective Dasha Zhukova Keith Rabois Alexis Ohanian Charlie Cheever Dave Morin David Kidder Peter Lehrman David Tisch | $1.25M |
| Series A, 11/11 Peter Thiel Thrive Capital Wendi Murdoch Dasha Zhukova | $6M |
Art.sy is a new way to discover art you’ll love, featuring work from leading galleries, museums, and private collections around the world.
Art.sy launched at Disrupt in New York in May 2010 winning the Rookie award.
The site then shifted focus from a general-interest art-buying site to one more focussed on high-end art dealers and collectors. Art.sy signed up powerful New York city art dealer Larry Gagosian as an advisor and is negotiating with other world-class galleries to highlight their artists on Art.sy.
Art.sy is powered by The Art Genome Project, an ongoing study of the characteristics that distinguish and connect works of art. Art.sy evaluates artworks along 200+ characteristics—such as art-historical movements, subject matter, and formal qualities—to create a powerful search experience that reflects the multifaceted aspects of works of art.
Art.sy’s investors and advisors include global leaders in the arts, media and technology. Investors include Dasha Zhukova, founder of Moscow’s Garage Center for Contemporary Culture; Wendi Murdoch, film producer; and Jack Dorsey, creator of Twitter. Advisors include Larry Gagosian, owner of Gagosian Galleries; Marc Glimcher, president of The Pace Gallery; and Joe Kennedy, CEO of Pandora.
