ACFA

Blockchain-based Art Authenticationacfa.io

ACFA is a French blockchain-based platform that issues NFT certificates of authenticity for artworks, serving artists, galleries, collectors, and enterprises with provenance tracking, marketplace, and payment tools.

Company typePrivate
Founded2022
HeadquartersVillefranche-sur-mer, France
Headcount1–10
GTM typeB2B and B2C
OfferingSoftware

What ACFA does

ACFA is a blockchain-based art certification and marketplace platform that issues NFT certificates of authenticity for physical artworks, headquartered in Villefranche-sur-Mer, France. Founded in 2022, the company operates a self-serve platform at acfa.io that serves four user segments — artists, galleries and agents, collectors, and enterprises — with tools for creating tamper-proof certificates, tracking provenance, managing sales, organizing exhibitions, and handling invoices. The platform's core technology is a blockchain-stored NFT certificate that provides non-falsifiable authenticity verification and 100% provenance traceability, enabling artist royalty collection on secondary sales.

The product surface is modular, comprising the core ACFA Platform, an Artwork Marketplace, Artist Dashboard, Gallery Management CRM, Collection Management, Exhibition Management, and Invoice Management modules, supplemented by ACFA Pay, an integrated payment system with 14-day buyer protection escrow. The business model is freemium: registration is free with permanent certificate ownership, and revenue is intended to come from paid premium tools and transaction/marketplace fees via ACFA Pay, though specific pricing is not publicly disclosed. The company is privately held, founder-controlled by Filippo CELI (the disclosed data controller), has not raised any external funding, and operates with minimal public company infrastructure (€1,000 registered capital, 'en cours de création' status). GTM is product-led, supplemented by content marketing, organic social, and art-event partnerships in the European luxury market such as the Vivanoca Charity Gala and La Donna exhibition in Monaco.

ACFA firmographics

Firmographics

Name: ACFA
Legal name: ACFA.IO
Website: https://acfa.io
Company type: Private
Founded year: 2022
Operating status: Operating
Headcount range: 1–10 employees
Short description: ACFA is a French blockchain-based platform that issues NFT certificates of authenticity for artworks, serving artists, galleries, collectors, and enterprises with provenance tracking, marketplace, and payment tools.
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ACFA industry classification

Industry

Product category: Blockchain-based Art Authentication
NAICS: Art Dealers (459920)
SIC: Services-Mailing, Reproduction, Commercial Art & Photography (7330)
akta.pro primary industry: Art & 1/1 Digital Art NFT Marketplaces (FSADANAB)

Keywords

NFT art certificates
Blockchain provenance tracking
Artwork authentication platform
Digital art marketplace
Artist royalty management

Where ACFA is headquartered

Location

Headquarters

HQ city: Villefranche-sur-mer
HQ country: France
HQ region: Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

ACFA business model

Business model

GTM type: B2B and B2C
Offering type: Software
Cost components: Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

Freemium Registration with Premium Tools: Basic registration is free, providing access to certificates that belong to users permanently. Additional advanced tools and services are available for purchase, though specific pricing is not publicly disclosed.
Transaction/Sales Facilitation Fees: The platform facilitates artwork sales with integrated payment processing through ACFA Pay. While no explicit transaction fee percentage is stated, the platform operates payment processing that suggests take-rate economics.

Pricing tiers

Model	Billing	Price
Freemium	Pay-as-you-go	Free Registration - Basic access to NFT certificate creation and storage

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

ACFA product offering

Product offering

Core offering

ACFA operates a blockchain-based platform that issues NFT certificates of authenticity for artworks, enabling artists, galleries, collectors, and enterprises to register and certify artworks with tamper-proof provenance records. The platform combines a self-serve marketplace, integrated payment processing (ACFA Pay) with buyer protection, and tools for managing sales, exhibitions, and invoices across the art ownership lifecycle.

Product overview

ACFA is a unified platform for art authentication and management, built around its core NFT-based certificate of authenticity system stored on blockchain. The platform offers a modular architecture: the core ACFA Platform provides blockchain-based artwork certification, complemented by ACFA Pay for secure transactions, an Artwork Marketplace for buying/selling, Artist Dashboard and Gallery Management tools for professional users, Collection Management for collectors, Exhibition Management for event organization, and Invoice Management for transaction tracking. Registration is free with basic certificate access; paid additional tools are available.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

ACFA Platform

Quantifiable outcome

500+ registered artists and 3,500+ protected works with NFT certificates
+1 more outcomes

Companies that use ACFA

Customer profile

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

ACFA technology and API

Technology

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API: No
API docs
API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

ACFA partnerships and signals

Strategic signal

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

Wevox SARLminorOthersWevox SARL is the hosting provider for the ACFA.io website. The company is based in Langeac, France (Jahon, 43300, Langeac) with a capital of 25,000 euros, SIRET number 50273325600049.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

ACFA competitors and assessment

Company assessment

Broad incumbents

Sotheby's: Sotheby's, through Sotheby's Metaverse and other blockchain initiatives, runs on-chain sales and provenance work — a broad incumbent that can absorb or sideline independent NFT-authentication platforms targeting the same high-end collectors.
Artnet: Artnet operates a global art marketplace plus price/auction databases with provenance records, making it a broad incumbent in art commerce and traceability — adjacent to ACFA's authentication and resale-tracking value.
Christie's: Christie's (including Christie's 3.0) is a major auction house that has launched on-chain sales and provenance initiatives, representing a deep-pocketed incumbent with the inventory and brand to define certification standards in fine art.
Artsy: Artsy is a large online art marketplace with deep gallery and collector relationships; its breadth of inventory and brand make it a broad incumbent competing for the marketplace half of ACFA's proposition.

Direct peers

Maecenas: Maecenas is a blockchain-based platform for fractional ownership and trading of fine art, overlapping with ACFA's blockchain-art marketplace and provenance-tracked artwork transactions.
Artory: Artory maintains a blockchain registry of auction records and provenance data, offering a directly comparable on-chain provenance service for artworks and collectors.
Verisart: Verisart offers blockchain-based certificates of authenticity for artworks and collectibles — directly competing with ACFA's core NFT certification proposition for artists, galleries and collectors.
Codex Protocol (Codex): Codex Protocol builds blockchain-based provenance and title records for fine art and collectibles (notably following its acquisition of Artory), placing it as a head-to-head competitor in on-chain art authentication and registry.

Emerging players

Artmyn: Artmyn creates high-resolution 3D imaging and digital twins for art provenance and condition documentation, an adjacent but comparable authentication/provenance offering for galleries and collectors.
Smartify: Smartify provides artwork identification and provenance tools via mobile scanning, complementing/competing with ACFA's digital certification by addressing the 'identify the artwork' step before or alongside certificate lookup.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

ACFA compliance and trust

Trust signal

Compliance1 record

ACFA financial estimates

Financial estimate

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

ACFA leadership team

Management profile

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

ACFA funding detail

Funding detail

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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

ACFA M&A and investment

M&A and investment

M&A

Investments

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

Frequently asked questions about ACFA

What does ACFA do?

Is ACFA a public or private company?

ACFA is a private company. It is classified as founder individual operated bootstrapped and is currently operating.

When was ACFA founded?

ACFA was founded in 2022. It employs 1 to 10 people.

Where is ACFA based?

ACFA is headquartered in Villefranche-sur-mer, France, in the Europe region.

How does ACFA make money?

Two revenue lines are on record. Freemium Registration with Premium Tools are the primary driver. The others are transaction/Sales Facilitation Fees.

Who are ACFA's main competitors?

Broad incumbents on record are Sotheby's, Artnet, Christie's and Artsy. Direct peers are Maecenas, Artory, Verisart and Codex Protocol (Codex). Emerging players are Artmyn and Smartify.

Does ACFA have an API?

No public API is recorded for ACFA.

What industry is ACFA in?

ACFA's product category is Blockchain-based Art Authentication. Its primary akta.pro industry code is FSADANAB, Art & 1/1 Digital Art NFT Marketplaces. Its NAICS code is 459920 and its SIC code is 7330.