Top Art Startups in 2024

1stdibs is the premier luxury marketplace for rare and beautiful objects in furniture, fashion, fine art, and jewelry. We connect the world’s most respected dealers with buyers who share in the pursuit of beautiful design. In doing so we strive to define and shape the future of antique, vintage, and contemporary buying-and-selling. We consider ourselves unique among start-ups. We’ve been around since 2001, yet still exhibit strong entrepreneurial DNA that informs how we operate and function as a company. It helps that we are led by a seasoned executive team that has seen it all: CEO David Rosenblatt formerly ran DoubleClick and negotiated its sale to Google for $3.2 billion. Other executives have held senior roles at eBay, Gilt Groupe, FreshDirect, BarnesandNoble.com, MLB.com, Group Commerce, and Venmo. We are backed by prominent venture capital firms like Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, Insight Ventures, and Spark Capital. Alibaba Group has also made a significant investment.

Modyfi brings next-generation tech to design with a high-performance, browser-based application offering AI-powered tooling, non-destructive workflows, frictionless collaboration, and more. We inspire creatives by removing the mundane, making teamwork easy, accelerating the design process, and making the creation of better images faster than ever.

Artsy’s mission is to make all the world’s art accessible to anyone with an Internet connection. We are a resource for art collecting and education. Artsy features the world’s leading galleries, museum collections, foundations, artist estates, art fairs, and benefit auctions, all in one place. Our growing database of 500,000 images of art, architecture, and design by 50,000 artists spans historical, modern, and contemporary works, and includes the largest online database of contemporary art. Artsy is used by art lovers, museum-goers, patrons, collectors, students, and educators to discover, learn about, and collect art.

Vori is the only modern B2B operating system for the grocery industry (think Instacart or DoorDash but for grocery retailers and their wholesale suppliers). Our technology seamlessly connects data across the food supply chain, streamlining operations for grocers and suppliers while democratizing food supply access. Our customers include everyone from Safeway and CVS properties on down to local corner stores.

Minted is a lifestyle brand and design marketplace connecting you with the world’s best artists to create something one of a kind. Minted crowdsources graphic design and artwork from a global community of independent artists and sells these as products addressing the $10 billion stationery market, $48 billion art market, and $100 billion home decor market. Minted’s mission is to enable the design independence of both consumers and artists around the world, and the company is a platform for the strongest emerging artists in the world to be seen and discovered. We aim to build a lasting brand representing the most commercially successful design community in the world. Minted was founded by successful serial entrepreneur Mariam Naficy.

Performing arts institutions generate $16B+ in annual revenue in the United States. CueBox is a venture backed startup based in NYC focused on building a tailored software product for these organizations, so that more people can experience and appreciate the arts. Our product enables arts organizations to run their operations more effectively. We’re looking for passionate and experienced engineers to join our team!

Cuseum helps museums accelerate visitor and member engagement using digital tools. Cuseum's software platform makes it easy for museums, cultural institutions, and public attractions to publish mobile apps, manage their collections, access visitor analytics, and generate new revenue opportunities.

ARTERNAL CRM is a verticalized cloud-based SaaS software catering to art dealers and gallery staff. We have created a sales and marketing process to power transactions that was non-existent. Our database will house the largest number of buyers and sellers globally. With ARTERNAL, galleries leverage data to turn their relationships into revenue.

UnVale is where the next generation of storytellers develop entire worlds of content, grow their audience, and publish the next big hit. Aspiring writers, illustrators, and animators can grow their fanbase from day one as they build the next Star Wars, Game of Thrones, or Marvel Comic Universe. While social media platforms prioritize short-form video content created by influencers, we will be the new community for creatives to do the time-consuming work of worldbuilding and story craft in public. By breaking down long-form content into easy-to-digest pieces, they can grow an audience with every release from day one. A fanbase is the most powerful tool a creator can have. Growing a following is key to successfully self-publishing your work, and it signals to publishers that what you’ve created has captured an audience’s attention. UnVale provides this growth as you develop content, making your creative process a way of being discovered–while keeping you motivated as you develop the next culture-defining story.

We're Creative Fabrica. A fast scaling start-up from Amsterdam. We believe that the way marketplaces sell designs is ok, but not great. We will change that. We want to empower creatives to make a living from their craft while providing the best possible experience for the crafting community. Creative Fabrica is a combination of love for art and a passion for handmade crafts and fonts. We believe that each font and craft is a little piece of art. Likewise, we believe that art should be made available to everyone.