Professor Seagull's Smartshop and Psychedelic Gallery

What Professor Seagull's Smartshop and Psychedelic Gallery does

Professor Seagull's Smartshop and Psychedelic Gallery (legal entity SF SMARTSHOP LLC) operates a single brick-and-mortar retail location at 1351 Grant Avenue in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood, combined with a nationwide e-commerce storefront at sfsmartshop.com built on Foxycart and gated by 21+ age verification. The company functions as a hybrid smartshop and art gallery, offering an unusually broad catalog spanning ceremonial cacao, medicinal mushroom tinctures and powders, adaptogenic and nootropic supplements (including the proprietary Harmonia blend), yerba mate, kratom, ethnobotanical herbs, ayahuasca vine varieties, sacred plants and incense, alcohol-alternative functional beverages and elixirs (Healthy High, Peak State, DROMME, Three Spirits), as well as psychedelic/visionary art, books, and branded merchandise.

The business is privately held, bootstrapped, and founder-operated, with Benjamin Manton identified as Managing Editor and no disclosed institutional capital. Distribution is direct-to-consumer only: walk-in retail at the Grant Avenue gallery plus USPS Priority shipping subject to jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction compliance screening (most notably kratom, which is excluded from multiple states and municipalities). The company runs a horizontal persona segmentation (wellness consumers, spiritual/psychedelic enthusiasts, art collectors, mindful socializers) and monetizes entirely through one-time unit purchases; no subscription, contract, or wholesale revenue model is in place.

The art-gallery component is positioned as a community anchor rather than a profit center, with an artist-friendly revenue split (70% to artists, 40% commission retained to fund space and programming) and event programming including film screenings. Marketing is primarily organic and content-led via Facebook, Instagram, an email newsletter, on-site educational content, and in-person events. No mobile app, API, AI/ML capabilities, patents, or third-party logistics partnerships are disclosed.

Name

Professor Seagull's Smartshop and Psychedelic Gallery

Legal name

SF SMARTSHOP LLC

Website

https://sfsmartshop.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Professor Seagull's is a San Francisco North Beach smartshop and art gallery selling ethnobotanicals, nootropics, ceremonial cacao, medicinal mushrooms, kratom, and psychedelic art direct-to-consumer via one retail location and a nationwide e-commerce site.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Herbal and Ethnobotanical Retail

NAICS

Health and Personal Care Retailers (456), Art Dealers (45992), Other Specialty Food Retailers (44529)

SIC

Retail-Misc General Merchandise Stores (5399), Medicinal Chemicals & Botanical Products (2833)

akta.pro primary industry

Spiritual, Metaphysical & Inspirational Gifts Retail (CRALAJAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Functional & Wellness Beverage Shops (Shots, Adaptogens, Vitamin/Collagen Drinks) (THAFAKAJ), Gourmet & Fine Food Stores (CRAHAGAG)

Keywords

• Ethnobotanical retail
• Nootropic supplements
• Herbal apothecary
• Psychedelic art gallery
• Ceremonial cacao

Headquarters

HQ city

South San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Product Sales - Botanical and Herbal Products: Primary revenue stream from selling botanical products including nootropics, herbs, ceremonial cacao, tinctures, medicinal mushrooms, seeds, and plant-based wellness products. One-time purchase model for individual products.
2. Product Sales - Art and Merchandise: Revenue from selling psychedelic art pieces, books, magazines, apparel (hoodies, t-shirts), mugs, and gift cards through both online and physical retail channels.
3. Event Revenue: Revenue generated from community events such as film screenings held at their physical gallery space at 1351 Grant Avenue, San Francisco.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Professor Seagull's Smartshop is a San Francisco-based specialty retailer (smartshop) that curates and sells ethnobotanical herbs, nootropics, adaptogens, medicinal mushrooms, ceremonial cacao, yerba mate, kratom, sacred plants, and incense. The same location also functions as a Psychedelic Gallery featuring visionary and psychedelic artworks sold primarily through the gallery space, with 70% of art sales going directly to artists.

Product overview

Professor Seagull's Smartshop and Psychedelic Gallery is a San Francisco-based smartshop and gallery specializing in plant medicines, nootropics, ceremonial botanicals, psychedelic art, and wellness products. The business operates through a unified online platform offering: (1) Ceremonial Cacao products including elemental blends (Earth, Fire, Water, Air, OG) and the All Four Elements collection; (2) Functional Beverages including Healthy High drink line, Peak State mushroom coffees, and DROMME functional spirits; (3) Three Spirits Botanical Elixirs (Livener, Social Elixir, Nightcap); (4) Anima Mundi botanical apothecary products including adaptogens, nootropics, and lucid dreaming tonics; (5) Medicinal Mushroom tinctures and powders (Lion's Mane, Chaga, Reishi, Cordyceps); (6) Yerba Mate selection from Argentina and South America; (7) Kratom varieties; (8) Traditional ethnobotanical herbs; (9) Sacred plants and incense; (10) Banisteriopsis Caapi vine varieties; (11) Psychedelic art gallery sales; (12) Publications and books on psychedelics and plant medicine; (13) Food Over Drugs herbal teas; (14) Rawmio functional foods; (15) Branded merchandise. The store emphasizes quality sourcing, transparency, and community education around plant-based wellness.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Ceremonial Cacao Products

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Market position

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/professorseagulls
• Instagraminstagram.com/professorseagullssmartshop
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/professor-seagull-s-smartshop-and-psychedelic-gallery

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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