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Danvas 🖼
display your digital art
setting the scene
you're interested in collecting NFTs and decide to make your first purchase 💲
when you show off your new digital art to your friends, you're met with skepticism 😢
"that's art? it looks like a picture on your phone screen" 🤨
"what's stopping someone from screenshotting that image?" 🤔
"is a non-fungible token a type of mushroom?" 🍄
NFTs are disrupting the art world, but artists and collectors face difficulty sharing and displaying art irl
this week's company brings digital art to the real world with a museum-quality frame
in a sentence
Danvas provides a tech-enabled display that showcases NFTs and digital art
tech-enabled: lighting, sound, and sensors create an interactive viewing experience
display: a luxury, museum-like frame that connects to smart devices
NFTs: a light at the bottom of the canvas verifies ownership
bulleted version: today, the best way to display NFT art pieces are to showcase them on a tv screen, which is equivalent to duct taping a poster to your wall; Danvas' product improves the display of NFT art at any location 🖼
the basics
industry: art, hardware, NFTs
headquarters: Los Angeles, CA 🏄🏻♀️
year founded: 2021
company size: <10 employees 🧳
investors: Greycroft, Lerer Hippeau, Waverley Capital, Vayner/RSE + VaynerX Fund (Gary Vaynerchuk), UTA Ventures, BDMI, BAM Ventures, Watertower Ventures, Rich Greenfield, Jason Nazar, Jon Goldman, Walter Piecyk
amount raised: $12m post seed funding 💰
business model: b2c
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due diligence
what we like
🌉 playing in two sizable markets: Danvas is bridging the $17b NFT-based digital art market with the largely undisrupted, $65b global art market
💥 expansion opportunities: by building solutions for discovering, displaying, and sharing NFTs, Danvas' product roadmap has the potential to take many directions
🌱 growing their own market: by helping digital artists connect with audiences and collectors to showcase their purchases, Danvas will encourage artists to continue creating and collectors to keep buying
potential risks
💰 luxury product: while NFTs make art ownership more accessible, Danvas' product may bring digital art closer to the exclusive art market
1️⃣ and done: collectors only need one frame to display as many pieces as they wish
how will the company keep customers interested after purchasing the frame?
📉 NFT sales growth: the decline of NFT sales volume in recent months makes the market's future growth unclear

weekly cartoon
founder profiles
Hernan Lopez (prev. founder @ Wondery)
Jeanne Anderson (prev. @ Saatchi Art)
comps
why Danvas: Danvas offers a quality, disruptive solution that enables NFT art to be shown how the artist intended; it's easy to picture Danvas driving the transformation of the digital art market 🎨
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