Art.world

What Art.world does

Art.world was a London-based art exhibition guide founded in 2015, co-founded by Abe Orden and Marwan SABA, with a reported seed funding round of $275,000 in July 2015 from undisclosed investors. The firm positioned itself as "the world's exhibition guide," offering a mobile app (promoted via Twitter and an Instagram presence @artdotworld_app) targeted at art enthusiasts seeking exhibition discovery and navigation. Operating with a small team of 1-10 employees, Art.world appears to have functioned as an early-stage consumer-facing art-discovery platform rather than a B2B SaaS or marketplace business.

The company's core product offering is not described in technical detail in the available data; no platform architecture, proprietary technology, API surface, or product roadmap is disclosed. The firmographic and Atom.com listing record contains no technology stack, integrations, patents, or third-party platform dependencies, suggesting a lightweight consumer app with limited documented technology moat.

Business model signals are similarly sparse. No recurring revenue, subscription tiers, or monetization mechanics are described for the operating app. The most prominent commercial signal is that the Art.world domain is currently listed for sale on Atom.com's premium domain marketplace (formerly Squadhelp) at $550,000 (one-time buy-now) or $26,355/month for 24 months lease-to-own (totaling $632,520), with AtomPay escrow handling. This listing is consistent with either a winding-down of operations or asset monetization rather than an actively operating venture; no subsequent funding rounds, partnerships, customer logos, or product updates have been disclosed in the available data.

Name

Art.world

Legal name

Art.World

Website

https://art.world

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Art.world is a London-based art exhibition guide app founded in 2015 by Abe Orden and Marwan SABA, serving art enthusiasts with exhibition discovery tools; the Art.world domain is currently listed for sale on Atom.com's premium marketplace at $550,000.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Art Discovery Platform

NAICS

Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions (7121), Museums (71211)

SIC

Services-Mailing, Reproduction, Commercial Art & Photography (7330)

akta.pro primary industry

Art Museums (THAJADAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Custom Application Development (Web/Mobile/Desktop) (BPAEAFAA)

Keywords

• Art exhibition guide
• Exhibition listings
• Art event discovery
• Gallery directory
• Museum listings

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Revenue model

1. Domain Name Sale: One-time purchase of the premium domain Art.world for $550,000. The domain is being sold as a premium digital asset through Atom.com's marketplace platform with secure transaction handling via escrow.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Art.world is a mobile application described as 'The world's exhibition guide,' enabling users to discover and browse art exhibitions and events worldwide. Founded in 2015 in London, UK, the company operates with a small team of 1-10 employees focused on art exhibition discovery through a mobile-first platform.

Product overview

Art.World is a premium domain name listed for sale on Atom.com's premium domain marketplace. It is not a product or service offering but rather a domain asset being offered for purchase at $550,000 (one-time) or $26,355 × 24 months (lease to own). No active product, platform, or service offering exists for this entity.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Art.world Mobile App A mobile application described as 'The world's exhibition guide,' enabling individual users to discover and browse art exhibitions, gallery openings, and museum events worldwide. The app aggregates exhibition information into a centralized discovery platform for art enthusiasts.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Sotheby's: Sotheby's is a major global auction house with exhibition programming, online catalogs, and a digital platform covering fine art, jewelry, and collectibles. It is a broad incumbent comparable to Art World for the exhibition calendar and art discovery use case, with much greater brand recognition, content production, and auction market share.
• Christie's: Christie's is one of the world's leading auction houses, operating sales, exhibitions, and online-only auctions across fine and decorative art categories. It is a broad incumbent whose exhibition programming and online calendar make it a relevant comparable for the exhibition guide use case, even though its primary business is auction-driven rather than editorial.
• Art Basel: Art Basel operates the world's premier art fairs in Basel, Miami Beach, Hong Kong, and Paris, plus a year-round digital content platform covering exhibitions and the global art market. It is a broad incumbent with direct overlap on exhibition discovery and a comparable audience of collectors, galleries, and art-interested consumers.
• Google Arts & Culture: Google Arts & Culture is a digital platform partnering with museums and cultural institutions worldwide to provide online exhibitions, virtual tours, and curated collections. It is a broad incumbent in the digital art and exhibitions space, with vastly greater resources, content depth, and SEO reach than any independent exhibition guide.

Emerging players

• Widewalls: Widewalls is an online art magazine and marketplace featuring editorial coverage of exhibitions, artist interviews, and a curated gallery for buying contemporary art. It is an emerging player with meaningful overlap in exhibition discovery and editorial coverage, though it focuses more on contemporary art and the gallery-buying workflow.
• Singulart: Singulart is an online art gallery selling original works by international contemporary artists, with curated collections, artist features, and editorial content. It is an emerging player with overlap in art discovery and online exhibition presentations, though Singulart's primary business is gallery sales rather than exhibition calendar coverage.
• Saatchi Art: Saatchi Art is an online art gallery featuring works by emerging artists worldwide, with curated collections, editorial features, and exhibition-style presentations. It is an emerging player with partial overlap in art discovery and online exhibition-style merchandising, though its primary business is direct-to-consumer art sales.

Direct peers

• MutualArt: MutualArt provides art market intelligence, exhibition listings, and auction coverage aimed at collectors and art professionals. It directly competes in the art discovery and exhibition information space, with a comparable target user base of collectors and art-interested consumers seeking curated exhibition and market information.
• Artsy: Artsy operates the leading online marketplace and discovery platform for primary and secondary art, including exhibitions, galleries, and auction listings globally. It is the closest direct competitor to Art World's stated concept of an exhibition guide, with similar audience (collectors and art-interested consumers) and overlapping editorial coverage of exhibitions and art fairs.
• Artnet: Artnet provides online art market intelligence including auction results, gallery listings, and exhibition coverage, with a long-running news and editorial arm. Like Art World, Artnet functions as an information and discovery layer for the art market, making it a direct functional peer for exhibition and gallery discovery use cases.

Market position

Competitive moat2 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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

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