Zatista

What Zatista does

Zatista is a curated online marketplace for original art, founded in 2008 and headquartered in Yardley, USA. The platform aggregates more than 15,000 artworks — including paintings, sculptures, photography, and mixed media — from artists around the world, and serves individual collectors as well as trade buyers such as interior designers. Artworks span price points from under $100 to over $10,000, with the company operating country-specific storefronts for the US, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand.

The platform is built around a self-serve e-commerce model in which artists list original works directly and Zatista earns revenue via commissions on completed transactions. Around the core marketplace, Zatista has layered several services: Art Explorer for visual/discovery-based search, an Art Advisory/Concierge service for personalized selection, an Art Commission offering for custom original work, a Gift Card product, and a Trade Program providing trade-specific terms for interior designers. The technology stack is a standard e-commerce/marketplace architecture with artist-side listing tools and buyer-side catalog browsing and search; no proprietary AI or ML systems are documented.

Zatista is a privately held business operating with a reported 1–10 employees and no disclosed external funding rounds. Its go-to-market is primarily direct-to-consumer and self-serve, supplemented by the Trade Program for professional interior design buyers. Revenue mechanics rely on marketplace take rates on art sales rather than subscriptions or advertising, making top-line directly a function of transaction volume, average selling price, and conversion through the discovery and advisory layers.

Name

Zatista

Legal name

Zatista LLC

Website

https://zatista.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Zatista is a curated online marketplace for original art, connecting thousands of global artists with individual collectors and interior designers via a commission-based e-commerce platform operating in the US, Canada, UK, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Art Marketplace

NAICS

Art Dealers (45992), Art Dealers (459920)

akta.pro primary industry

Collectibles, Art & Antiques C2C (CRAFAKAG)

Keywords

• Online art marketplace
• Original art sales
• Fine art curation
• Art e-commerce
• Interior design art

Headquarters

HQ city

Yardley

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Revenue model

1. Art Sales Commission: Zatista operates as a marketplace for original art, charging artists a commission on sales. The platform enables artists to list and sell original artworks directly to collectors worldwide. Transaction fees are embedded in the pricing model.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Zatista operates an online marketplace where independent artists from around the world list and sell original, one-of-a-kind artworks including paintings, sculptures, photography, and prints. The platform aggregates 15,000+ original artworks, providing collectors with curated access to original art through regional sites in the US, Canada, UK, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand. Revenue is earned via commission on each sale, supplemented by ancillary services such as personal shopping and trade programs.

Product overview

Zatista is an online art gallery and marketplace featuring a curated collection of over 15,000 original artworks. The core platform connects emerging and established artists directly with collectors, offering paintings, photography, mixed media, drawings, digital art, sculptures, and hand printed works. The ecosystem includes complementary services: Art Advisory (personal art concierge), Artist Commission (custom artwork creation), Trade Program (for interior designers), and Gift Cards. The company operates regional variants for Canada, UK, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Art Marketplace
• Art Concierge

Quantifiable outcome

• 14-day free returns with full buyer satisfaction guarantee
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• TrustpilotminorOthersZatista displays Trustpilot reviews on their website to build customer trust and provide social proof of customer satisfaction with the purchasing experience.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Saatchi Art: Online original art marketplace curated for collectors, operates under the Saatchi Gallery brand and offers paintings, photography, sculpture, and prints with similar artist-direct sales model and comparable price bands as Zatista.
• Artsy: Leading online art marketplace connecting collectors with galleries and auction houses, offering original works, editions, and design objects across a wide price range with strong brand recognition similar to Zatista's positioning.
• Artfinder: Online marketplace dedicated to original art from independent artists, allowing direct purchase from creators worldwide with similar curation, price tiers, and artist-onboarding model as Zatista.
• Rise Art: Curated online art gallery featuring original works from contemporary artists, offering advisory services and trade programs that closely mirror Zatista's gallerist support and collector discovery experience.
• Singulart: Online gallery for original contemporary art from international artists, supporting discovery, advisory, and commission requests in a model directly comparable to Zatista's marketplace plus concierge approach.

Broad incumbents

• 1stDibs: Online marketplace for luxury items including a substantial original art category from galleries and dealers worldwide; broader portfolio but overlaps with Zatista on collector, designer, and high-AOV original art sales.
• Artnet: Long-established art marketplace and auction platform combining gallery network, auctions, and price database; overlaps with Zatista's collector-facing original art discovery and pricing transparency mission.
• Sotheby's: Global auction house with growing online marketplace for fine art, ranging from contemporary originals to high-end lots; competes with Zatista at the upper end of original art collectibles and in serving interior designers.

Emerging players

• Minted: Online marketplace for independent artists spanning art prints, original works, and home decor with similar community-of-artists positioning, though stronger in stationery and limited-edition prints than original fine art.
• UGallery: Online gallery selling original art from a vetted roster of independent artists with curated discovery and global shipping; overlapping offering but smaller catalog and brand awareness than Zatista.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/zatista
• Pinterestpinterest.com/zatista
• Xx.com/zatista

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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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