Verse

What Verse does

Verse is a London-based, privately held curated marketplace for digital artworks, founded in 2022 and operating with 11-50 employees. The company serves two primary customer segments — digital art collectors seeking authentic, blockchain-provenance-backed works, and prestige galleries and curators (including Lisson Gallery, The Third Line, Feral File, Artie Galerie, Heft, Fakewhale, PROOF, and Noble Gallery) seeking distribution infrastructure for digital editions. Verse operates a multi-stack platform: primary-release curation through its SOLOS sub-brand and partner galleries, a secondary marketplace viewable on OpenSea and other major NFT venues, on-chain provenance via ERC-721 (and additional support for Tezos, Solana, and Bitcoin rails) plus IPFS for decentralized artwork storage, a self-serve Verse Studio for creators to mint and release works, an iOS Verse Collect app for portfolio management, and a B2B White Label / Verse Tech Suite offering.

The business model is primarily transaction-fee-based: Verse facilitates primary sales from curated galleries and earns a commission on secondary-market trading volume on its platform. Pricing varies by artwork — fixed-price unit pricing ranges from roughly $21.90 (BRUTAL81's OVEREXPOSURE) to $3,500 (Smoke Netscape). The company supplements commission revenue with content marketing (Verse Journal), a Discord community, and email newsletter, and is expanding into platform-as-a-service via its White Label stack. Secondary market indicators show active but modest liquidity — for example, the flagship Human Resources series (10,000 ERC-721s) reports 1,393 owners, 769 active listings, and a highest secondary sale of $2,048 — consistent with a niche but operating digital-art marketplace rather than a mass-market venue.

Verse has raised $2.4M in a single seed round from Venrex in June 2022, with no subsequent funding rounds disclosed. No management team, board, or leadership changes were identified in the source data. The firm shows ongoing operational health through 2024-2026 with regular exhibitions, product launches, and gallery partnerships, but operates in a contracted NFT market on a capital-light footprint.

Name

Verse

Website

https://verse.works

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Verse is a London-based curated NFT marketplace that enables collectors to acquire digital artworks presented by leading galleries and curators, with provenance recorded on the blockchain. It serves digital art collectors and prestige galleries via primary releases, secondary trading, a creator studio, and a mobile collection app.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

NFT Marketplace

NAICS

Art Dealers (45992)

SIC

Security & Commodity Brokers, Dealers, Exchanges & Services (6200)

akta.pro primary industry

Art & 1/1 Digital Art NFT Marketplaces (FSADANAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

NFT Marketplaces & Aggregators (primary/secondary, discovery, cross-market routing) (FSAPAFAB)

Keywords

• Digital art marketplace
• NFT platform
• Blockchain collectibles
• Curated NFT marketplace
• Digital artwork trading

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Artwork Sales Commission: Platform facilitates primary sales of digital artworks from curated galleries and secondary market transactions with marketplace commission on sales volume

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Verse operates a curated digital art marketplace where collectors can acquire NFTs presented by leading galleries and curators, with provenance recorded on the blockchain. The platform supports live primary releases from galleries and a secondary marketplace for resales, accepting payments via Ethereum, Tezos, Solana, Bitcoin, or credit card.

Product overview

Verse is a digital art marketplace that combines a core platform with multiple curated gallery brands and partner galleries. The platform enables collectors to acquire digital artworks with blockchain-recorded provenance through the main Verse marketplace and mobile app (Verse Collect). The ecosystem includes SOLOS as its primary curatorial brand presenting leading artists, while hosting partner galleries such as Feral File (the first code-based art platform, founded 2020), Artie Galerie, Heft, Fakewhale, PROOF, and Noble Gallery. Artists can launch new works through Verse Studio, and collectors can manage their collections via the iOS app.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• SOLOS: A curated gallery/brand dedicated to presenting digital artworks by world's leading artists

Products and services

• Verse Marketplace Curated online marketplace enabling collectors to discover, purchase, and resell digital artworks presented by leading galleries and curators, with provenance recorded on the blockchain. Supports primary releases and secondary trading, accepting Ethereum, Tezos, Solana, Bitcoin, or credit card payments.
• Verse Collect (iOS Mobile App) iOS mobile application for individual collectors to manage, view, and synchronize their digital artwork NFT collections across devices. Available on the Apple App Store.
• VERSE Studio Launch platform for creators to mint and release new digital artworks on the blockchain through the Verse marketplace.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration10 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Lisson GallerycoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorLeading contemporary art gallery with locations in London, New York, and Shanghai presenting digital artworks on Verse platform
• The Third LinecoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorDubai-based gallery presenting digital artworks from Middle Eastern and international artists on Verse
• SOLOScoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCuratorial platform dedicated to presenting digital artworks by world's leading artists, presenting series on Verse
• Feral FilecoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorOnline cultural institution for software art founded in 2020, first platform to support code-based artwork, presenting works on Verse
• Artie GaleriecoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorGallery representing natively digital art with FAFO attitude, presenting artworks on Verse
• HeftcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorNew York-based gallery presenting digital art series on Verse platform
• FakewhaleminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorOnline gallery presenting digital artworks on Verse platform
• ProofcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorDigital art collective focused on unique collector experiences, presenting curated series on Verse
• Noble GalleryminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorGallery presenting digital artworks including neurocolor's Lux Decay series on Verse

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Magic Eden: Leading Solana NFT marketplace. Verse supports Solana natively, and Magic Eden aggregates much of the cross-chain art trading that could otherwise flow through Verse.
• OpenSea: Largest generalist NFT marketplace aggregating listings from curated platforms including Verse. Competes for secondary trading flow and sets the default venue for liquidity, compressing Verse's direct take-rate.

Direct peers

• KnownOrigin: Early-mover curated NFT art marketplace integrated with Verse's secondary listings. Targets the same digital art collector persona with comparable curated-discovery mechanics.
• MakersPlace: Curated digital art NFT marketplace emphasizing authenticated, exclusive works. Listed in Verse's secondary integrations, indicating direct overlap in marketplace positioning.
• SuperRare: Curated NFT marketplace focused on individual digital artworks with a similar artist-by-invitation model. Directly comparable in target collectors (high-end digital art) and curated supply approach.
• Foundation: Curated NFT art marketplace similar to Verse, with invited artists and auction/fixed-price primary releases. Competes for the same gallery-curated digital art collector segment.
• Art Blocks: Leading generative-art NFT platform with a curatorial board, presenting code-based works on Ethereum. Closest direct competitor for Verse's SOLOS-curated generative/algorithmic exhibitions like Botto's ALGORITHMIC EVOLUTION.

Regional players

• Objkt: Largest Tezos-native NFT marketplace. Verse supports Tezos payments; Objkt serves a parallel curated-art community on the same chain. Overlap in generative and 1/1 digital art segments.

Emerging players

• fxhash: Generative-art marketplace on Tezos (and Ethereum). Verse supports Tezos natively, and fxhash overlaps heavily with Verse's algorithmic/generative art use case (e.g., William Mapan exhibitions).

Others

• Feral File: Listed as a partner gallery on Verse and as a separate "online cultural institution for software art." Provides comparable curated code-based exhibitions and overlapping artist roster.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/verse_works
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/verse-works

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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