In the eight editions to date, top companies, cultural institutions and researchers presented their work, and we invited eight start-ups to compete for the ArtTech Prize at the ArtTech Forum. All are examples of the talent emerging from our growing community.
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2025 Winner
PEGGY
Visit websitePeggy is redefining how the world connects with art. Built around a patented AI authentication engine, Peggy allows artists to verify each original work and share in its ongoing value. By combining technology with care for artists and collectors, Peggy brings trust, liquidity, and accessibility to one of humanity’s oldest and most inspiring markets.
Craig Follett is Co-Founder & CEO of Peggy
2025 NomineeEIT Culture & Creativity
EIT Culture & Creativity is the institutional partnership dedicated to helping European cultural and creative sectors and industries (CCSI) to become more sustainable, resilient, and competitive.
Launched in 2023 by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), an EU body, we provide access to funding, knowledge, and tailored support. As part of the largest European innovation network, we build lasting connections between research, industry, academia, and cultural institutions.
EIT Culture & Creativity offers funding for the creative and cultural sector, for example for companies’ innovation projects, as well as through incubation and acceleration programs. In the funding clinic, we will explore different funding opportunities by EIT Culture & Creativity and take a closer look at one specific call, applying it in practice through various exercises.
2025 Nominee
Espadaysantacruz Studio
We are a hybrid design creative studio based in Madrid since 2011. We combine craft innovation technology and creativity.
We create innovation projects that challenges brands and people. Our projects range from Product design, Experience Design, Interactive Installations or New Media Arts.
From the idea to the execution. Every project we do is a new challenge. We adapt and mutate each time to be fast and flexible to make ideas reality.
We believe that exploration and prototyping is the best way to learn from failure and use technology in a creative way. That is why our personal work has been featured in festivals like Kikk festival, MIRA, FILE, Platine, Toolkit…
We work with brands like SAMSUNG, FORD, MCKINSEY, ZARA, ADIDAS, PEPE JEANS, CAROLINA HERRERA, SHISEIDO, UNIVERSAL ROBOTS or PLAY STATION. Together with them we have been awarded with in festivals like Cannes Lions, CLIO, London International Awards, EL SOL, Premios Club de Creativos, EL OJO, FIAP, LAUS or FWA. 2025 Nominee
Artcrush
ARTCRUSH: WHERE ART MEETS URBAN SPACE
Artcrush transforms digital advertising billboards into open-air galleries, bringing curated art to train stations, bus stops & streets where millions see it daily.
Active in 15 countries with 15,000+ screens, we grow 100% yearly by using remnant ad slots at no cost.
Artists gain global exposure, while brand partners like Google & Coca-Cola connect with audiences through culture. We make creativity accessible — redefining where art lives & who sees it.
Mathieu is Founder & CEO of Artcrush
2025 NomineeCreative Europe
Creative Europe (2020-2027) is EU’s funding programme supporting the cultural and audiovisual sectors. The programme offers support for European cooperation and mobility in all cultural fields. In the audiovisual sector Creative Europe supports developing, distributing and promoting European works.
2025 Nominee
Beat Shaper
Beat Shaper is an AI music platform that helps producers accelerate their creative workflow. It generates editable music notation data compatible with standard music production tools, making it easy for users of all skill levels to explore new ideas. The system is trained ethically on proprietary and licensed data. Backed by Austrian innovation grants and a world-class incubator, Beat Shaper aims to set the standard for ethical, creator-friendly, and human-centric generative AI in music.
Taylor Peer is founder of Beat Shaper
2025 Nominee
OnstageAI
OnstageAI, Inc. (USA) has harnessed the power of AI technology and translated it into a production assistant tool for the automation of live classical video production.
2025 Nominee
KTG – ReadEU
KTG Research & Innovation Ltd (Cyprus), through its project ReadEU, is developing a multi-sided discovery platform connecting libraries, publishers, indie authors, and readers with books overlooked by mainstream algorithms.
2025 Nominee
Patternsfrom Agency
Patternsfrom Agency is the biggest pattern design service provider in Northern Europe, established in 2019.
Our aim is to make good and long-lasting design accessible globally by licensing pattern designs, offering design services for improved home textile products and collections as well as highlighting designers’ essential role in the manufacturing and branding process. As an outcome, there will be home textiles that people want to consume for years, and that last good for years.
Jenni Moberg is CEO of Patternsfrom Agency
2025 Nominee
Real Snap
Real Snap is an all-in-one AI visual creative platform that analyzes fashion production sheets to automatically generate garment visualizations, lookbooks, and video content in a single workflow. Powered by a multimodal AI model trained on both text and image data, it learns each brand’s aesthetic to produce high-quality visuals within minutes—without physical shooting. The platform also enables users to intuitively design with artistic elements through a tablet interface, allowing even those without strong visual sensibility to build structured and highly refined creative outputs. Real Snap has already proven its innovation and scalability through collaborative tests with leading K-fashion and global brands.
Jaeyeon Park is CEO of Real Snap
Mika (Jaeyun) Noh is Global Head of Real Snap
2025 Nominee
emergentic.ai
Emergentic.AI is building the authoring layer for agents across media and games. Agents with memory, personality, and goals interact in real time, powering emergent stories, dynamic NPCs, and collaborative workflows. Proven through cultural commissions like The Game of Whispers (LACMA) and enterprise deployments, Emergentic is the most powerful simulation and authoring platform for multi-agent worlds.
Parag K. Mital is founder of emergentic.ai
2025 NomineeArte France
2025 Nominee
CIE Gilles Jobin
Founded in 1995, Cie Gilles Jobin has produced more than 30 choreographic scenic works. Since 2016, the company has extended its scope of activity to digital choreographic projects in the field of virtual and mixed reality (XR). The company’s digital creations explore “new digital territories for choreography” and radiate far beyond the circle of contemporary dance into film and art festivals such as the Venice Biennale or the Sundance Film Festival.
“Cosmogony” is a live digital performance in real time by the Swiss contemporary dance company, Cie Gilles Jobin, featuring 3 dancers being motion captured live at the #Studios44MocapLab in Geneva and screened in real time remotely. The movements of the dancers are captured in Geneva, sliced up into digital ‘bits’ and sent instantaneously through the cyberspace to appear as avatars, on screen and in real time for a live audience, thousands of miles away from the company’s studio.
2025 Nominee
CYBEL’ART
Cybel’Art is a Swiss company offering an innovative approach to its customers’ digital needs. It fuses the physical and digital worlds to create impactful experiences, notably using augmented reality for ArtTech, promotional and artistic products. In 2019, it created the first holographic will in cinematic history thanks to its icologram® protocol, demonstrating its commitment to providing innovative and legal solutions to protect and enhance its customers’ content.
2024 Winner
Gaudio
Visit websiteGaudio is an educational platform which transforms museums into dynamic learning environments, connecting our shared past to current global challenges.
2024 Nominee
NADK
Visit websiteNADK is an editor that offers a catalogue of iconic IP ready creations from the biggest licenses in architecture, design, art, and industry.
2024 Nominee
ArtCentrica
Visit websiteArtCentrica is an online platform that transforms the learning and teaching of art and the humanities through art.
2024 Nominee
Digital Original
Visit websiteDigital Original enables galleries to create exclusive ownership propositions for collectors by converting physical original artwork into unique digital counterpart.
2024 Nominee
StoryDrops
Visit websiteStoryDrops is a location and audio based social media app, where you can leave audio “drops” for your friends, followers and loved ones.
2024 Nominee
Atopia Space
Visit websiteAtopia Space is a metaverse platform focused on arts and culture, providing interactive virtual experiences of world-renowned museums, galleries, concert halls, and theaters.
2024 Nominee
Art.Private.
Visit websiteArt.Private. brings a secure secondary market private sales solution in the art world, where collectors and amateurs can buy and sell via a worldwide network.
2024 Nominee
Singulive
Visit websiteSingulive offers a virtual reality platform where users can experience live music concerts and events.
2024 Nominee
Acrylic Robotics
Visit websiteAcrylic Robotics creates advanced robotic technology and software to produce high-quality, textured paintings at scale.
2023 Winner
SYNEGRAM
Synegram reinvents how we see, understand, and create music — with one simple idea: make music visual and logical. Using Synesthesia and semantic AI, we develop interfaces that help beginners learn faster, while giving professionals a new frontier to explore, compose, and perform music.
2023 Nominee
IONNYK
Visit websiteThese experiences/emotions consist of 1000+ highly curated photographs, stories in direct connection with the news, NFT’s, or personal pictures you own, all displayed at their finest on a proprietary top-notch cordless e-paper digital frame support.
You pick from your IONNYK smartphone app, the current soul/mood you want to display at the highest quality to all on an IONNYK digital frame hung to your wall.
2023 Nominee
Pool Music
Visit websitePool Music is an innovative trading app that empowers music enthusiasts to invest directly in their favorite artists. Our platform provides vital support to artists in their career advancement while offering investors a unique chance to financially benefit from their musical insights. Pool Music addresses the dual challenge of ensuring sustainable, direct financial support for artists and enabling music fans to actively participate in the success of the artists they believe in.
2023 Nominee
InsignERA
Visit websiteInsignERA is a technology company that focuses on creating solutions to improve accessibility for people with hearing impairments. Our flagship product is an application that translates streaming audio into sign language, making it accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals.
2023 Nominee
Well of Art
Visit websiteWe are Well of Art. A technology company that creates solutions for the digital transformation of K-12 art education. Our products include the Glaze software, reflecting a real-life painting process (developed in a three-year R&D project), the gamified learning-by-doing experiences and the artistic adventure game “Garden Creatures”, based in the world of Hieronymous Bosch (premiere 2023). We provide the curruculum-aligned programme of engaging lessons for all levels of K-12 education.
2023 Nominee
muse – The voice of the visitor
Visit websiteMuseums live through their visitors. muse is the voice of the visitor that inspires museums to create better exhibitions, programs and experiences. muse encourages your visitors to be active participants. Through a digital interface and in real time, you gain actionable impulses for a museum beyond the walls. muse makes feedback measurable and thus is the foundation for new strategies. Tailor-made reports, with insightful interpretation.
2023 Nominee
Hello xLAB
Visit websiteHello xLAB is an experience design consultancy made up of trailblazers and creative problem solvers. We’re not your average design company but an end-to-end partner that wields insights, expertise, and fearlessness to explore new frontiers. Realizing your vision and business objectives is no easy feat, but after 35 years of mastering design, innovation, and strategy, we make it look easy. We have the right tools and know-how to craft a quality experience from strategic planning to design production.
2023 Nominee
Holonic Systems
Visit websiteHolonic Systems uses spatial and physical computing to transform real world data into musical information that accompanies users’ activities while guiding them towards their destinations. Our adaptive music applications can be used by consumers, professionals and corporate customers to enhance and augment mobility, commuting, retail experiences and other events with auditory and musical interactions. The Holonic white label platform converts data from smart cities, vehicles, wearables and other sources into highly variable and responsive musical content, created by professional musicians and performed by end users – citizens and consumers. Holonic Systems’ geospatial Auditory AR platform powers the musical dimension of tomorrow’s location-based entertainment now.
2023 Nominee
Atopia Space
Visit websiteAtopia is an award-winning platform that allows you to visit any museum, gallery, heritage site or music ensemble from the comfort of your home – in VR, or simply from your Laptop.
2023 Nominee
Keru Project
Visit websiteKeru Project uses blockchain technology to create the first digital, secure, and sustainable souvenirs. Partnering with cultural institutions and touristic sites, they offer the visitors a way to make collection of the places they visited & to earn exclusive advantages. They want to give everyone the opportunity to preserve their memories in an accessible way while directly supporting our heritage.
2022 Nominee
Digital Kingdom
Visit websiteDigital Kingdom creates elegant entertainment experiences using its passion and expertise in designing video games and interactive solutions. We design and implement custom solutions to communicate, entertain and amaze.
We work for the world of communication, industry and culture. Our products are mainly serious-game, VR/AR, Mapping & Videos. We also work on our own video games.
2021 Winner
DREAM FACTORY
See videoThrough the physical and digital recreation of emblematic setups and stories from cinematographic universes, Dream Factory offers the participants, during an evening, the opportunity to immerse themselves in their favorite characters, setups, and stories. In concrete terms, Dream Factory offers interactive and immersive walking experiences of Immersive Cinema.
2021 Nominee
KINETIX
See videoKinetix empowers 3D creators and studios by providing them with AI-powered tools to accelerate and simplify their production processes.
Their ambition is to unleash the creativity of the community of creators and enable anyone to be able to produce 3D animated content to tell more engaging and immersive stories.
2021 Nominee
MATIS
MATIS multidisciplinary team proposes an innovative authentication approach. Their multispectral camera is based on utility and security. With the use of specific machine learning-derived image processing algorithms, they found a way to drastically reduce the hardware costs and enhance the underdrawing visualization, fitting the needs of the art experts as well as obtaining a robust pigment mapping and identification.
2021 Nominee
ARTPOINT
See videoArtpoint is a creator of digital art experiences for public places. Our ambition is to bring art into living spaces such as hotels, shopping malls, or corporate offices to enrich the public experience and enhance spaces.
We represent over 200 artists and bring you the best of their work through two different solutions.
2021 Nominee
Windowsight
Visit websiteWindowSight is a streaming platform to display visual art on TVs while supporting the artists. Their mission is to provide an accessible, affordable and HQ art experience so everyone can customize their own spaces and can take advantage of the benefits of having art in their daily lives. The platform operates worldwide through a mobile app, where the user has full access and control over all the content, and a TV app where they can display the artworks they choose in high quality in a digital format.
See what artists think about the platform and learn more about on their website below:
2021 Nominee
MYPART
See Abbey Road Studios clipMyPart is an AI-powered song search and matching platform with products that serve both songwriters and creative industry executives. The company is a proud graduate of UMG’s exclusive Abbey Road RED accelerator cohort of 2019 and a MassChallenge Gold Award winner.
Its proprietary ‘Song Mining’ engine conducts a granular analysis of lyrical and musical relevance based on a wide technology stack that combines machine learning (AI), computational linguistics, and digital signal processing.
2021 Nominee
BAVART
See prototypeBavAR[t] aims to be the next platform for Augmented Reality (AR) & Art, and Branding AR outdoor scenography. They bring together Digital Arts and scenography to become a reference in digital galleries, everywhere, for everyone.
BavAR[t] is geolocation augmented reality app including an AR chat. Brands and Artists can upload their 2D and 3D animated creations and then drop them at a given point-of-Interest.
2021 Nominee
SPECTYOU
SPECTYOU is the digital space for German-speaking theatre in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria. They show drama, dance, and performance art as premium content.
SPECTYOU facilitates exciting discoveries and an overview of the entire theatre landscape. They have built the foundation for a central, always up-to-date online theatre hub.
2021 Nominee
PICTIA
See videoPictia is the first ethical image bank dedicated to the protection and management of copyrights using blockchain technology.
Pictia allows photographers to sell their images while keeping the traceability and protection of their copyrights!
For the buyer, it is the guarantee to get original images.
2021 Nominee
Limna
Visit websiteLimna, the world’s first AI-powered art advisor, makes it easier for anyone to confidently buy art, while connecting every kind of buyer with artists and galleries around the world. Limna analyses millions of art world data points in seconds to provide users with clear and transparent price estimates about the art that inspires them.
2020 Winner
InsightART
Visit websiteInsightART is revolutionizing the art world with next-generation x-ray imaging technology previously available only at the cutting-edge of particle physics research. Their mission is to safeguard the world’s artistic heritage with state-of-the-art tools designed to assist art restoration experts and to unmask forgeries.
2020 Nominee
AI Music
Visit websiteAi.music is a royalty-free adaptive music solution for innovative sonic adventurers that care about how they sound. The perfect song or stream, available at the touch of a button, with no disruption to creative flow or user experience. AI Music technology powers user co-creation, to create fully licensed music solutions that meet these changing demands.
2020 Nominee
AORA
Visit websiteAORA is a virtual gallery that is accessible to anyone in the world with an internet connection. It was founded in June 2020 by curator Jenn Ellis and architect Benni Allan. AORA responds to multiple needs: access to the arts, no matter where you are; a curated point of sale and display; extending the healing properties of art; community, bringing together people from multiple disciplines, across the art and technology space.
2020 Nominee
Animatico
Visit websiteAnimatico helps revolutionize the customer experience with interactive avatars. Their intuitive avatar guides are the perfect assistants to customers whether it is to welcome, support or just simply entertain them. Animatico also allows to bring a brand to life and support clients in stores in finding the right products, provide information & entertain them.
2020 Nominee
Little yeti
Visit websiteLittle Yeti is an online platform that creates and publishes personalised story books for children and families.
We develop clever algorithms to create unique children’s books for each child and our goal is to create the most innovative personalised books in the world thanks to our innovative approach.
2020 Nominee
Music traveler
Visit websiteMusic Traveler is an app that allows musicians to book spaces to practice and play all around the world, like an AirBnB for music studios. With Music Traveler, musicians can connect, practice, and play in no time. Having the equipment and services they need at their fingertips helps them stay focused on the music. Sharing spaces means access to what they want at a fraction of the cost.
2020 Nominee
Codex
Visit websiteCodex is a new generation museum experience. We aim to change the museum guides industry by bringing the excitement of an escape room to it
2020 Nominee
Dojo Story
Visit websiteDojo is an augmented audio system, provided by exhibitors to their visitors. The Basel-based startup develops radically simplified IoT products with a focus on the growing markets of storytelling and multichannel marketing applications. Dojo distributes a story through an interactive audio device. The technology enables a new sensory experience with fewer limitations. Delivering location-based audio on demand.
2020 Nominee
AerariumChain
Visit websiteAerariumChain is the cloud service for both owners of artworks and professionals in the field. Through the integration of 3D Scan, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence, AerariumChain makes possible monitoring each work of art over time and in a reliable way.
2020 Nominee
Pinakotag
Visit websitePinakotag enables your artworks to join the world of IOT.
In a time when fine art collections are at the forefront of social and financial investments, a piece’s history becomes a valuation vector. Pinakotag ensures the long-term conservation of your artworks’ memory, through an innovative physical and digital system, allowing the pieces to interconnect globally and create their own social network. 2020 Nominee
CollecOnline
Visit websiteCollecOnline allows enthusiasts, experts, amateurs and investors to organize and protect their collections with a digital toolbox. Art & Antiques, Coins, Minerals, CollecOnline is also a specialized network connecting collectors worldwide.
2020 Nominee
Artbrain
Visit websiteArtbrain’s AI technology helps auction houses and dealers grow their businesses. Artbrain’s technology analyzes customers’ behavior to discover the most relevant matches between the customer base and available items. Based on the discovered matches, Artbrain delivers personal recommendations that magnify business growth.
2020 Nominee
Enlightware
Visit websiteAt Enlightware, we pursue the mission to foster autonomy, creativity and collaboration skills of each individual through digital products. Our first product is Candli, a tool allowing anyone to create their own video game or interactive story in a very simple way. Then just go to cand.li and start creating!”
2020 Nominee
Klassikal
Visit websiteKlassikal connects professionals in classical music.
Klassikal is a common digital space to foster collaboration between professionals
in classical music. Find interesting artists and innovative projects, build up your network and be discovered. 2020 Nominee
Art Mavens
Visit websiteArt Mavens is the leading freelance marketplace for art professionals, a global hub for art professionals and organisations to connect, collaborate and transact. Created for art professionals, by art professionals. As featured in Forbes.
Hire or list as a freelancer here
Join our upcoming townhall here
Follow us on instagram here
2020 Nominee
splashmob
Visit websiteSplashmob allows you to create live mobile sites in story format with all connected devices in sync. “Stories” is one of the fastest-growing media formats. Splashmob works in real-time on any mobile browser, no app needed. Share music, images, video, links. Poll the audience or ask questions. Gather audience data, track engagement in real-time. Put your slides at the fingertips of the audience.
2020 Nominee
ArtValue
Visit websiteArt Value App is an online platform where numerical art is created, distributed and traded. We use blockchain technology to secure the market as well as generate unique artworks. With Art_Value – The Numbers Matter!
2020 Nominee
scriptbakery
Visit websiteScriptbakery is a software that digitizes the acceptance, management, and analysis of texts. With Scriptbakery, manuscripts and exposés can now be processed effectively. Together with the smart analysis tool ALINEA®, which they developed for the challenges of the publishing industry, texts can be accepted, viewed, and evaluated cloud-based alone or in a team from anywhere in the world.
2020 Nominee
embodme
Visit websiteEmbodme presents ERAE TOUCH, a Polyphonic MIDI Controller born out of a desire to combine both sensitivity and versatility in a seamless object. Experimentation on the surface comes flawlessly bringing musicians closer to their original intents and ideas. A captivating audiovisual experience awaits with a colorful and powerful LED panel.
2020 Nominee
Smart Art – Art History Escape
Visit websiteEnjoy beautiful art and Learn something new every day – Smart Art app helps discover art, history, and culture in a fun and interactive way.
2019 Winner
Polkatulk
Polkatulk empowers content distribution by securing copyright determination and tracking, as a one-stop-shop for the content industry: specific DLT addressing the issues of copyright management, Progressive Web Application & encoding script. The first implementation was live with Scenso.tv, the first sVOD platform for all performing arts. Unfortunately, the platform no longer exists.
2019 Nominee
Art-Recognition
Visit websiteArt Recognition provides a tool to evaluate the authenticity of fine art leveraging the latest artificial intelligence methods. The system is fast, non-invasive, and unbiased. Based on photographic reproductions of an artist’s paintings, the tool checks whether the artist’s typical features – their “brushstroke” – correspond to those of the painting in question.
2019 Nominee
Mila
Visit websiteA collective of engineers, neurologists, and designers developed Mila, a serious game designed for children with specific learning disabilities, such as dyslexia, and built around rhythm and language exercises. It is carried by a rich musical universe aiming to lead the child to spontaneously come back on the tool with his parents.
2019 Nominee
CTRLmovie
Visit websiteCtrlMovie is an ecosystem that allows film studios and independent filmmakers to create and produce branched narrative movies. Thanks to the wide range of playback solutions for any size screen, CtrlMovie content can be distributed to movie theaters, home entertainment, mobile, and streaming.
2019 Nominee
Artivive
Artivive is an AR tool that allows artists, museums, and galleries to create new dimensions of art by adding a digital layer to a physical piece. It is an innovative way for audiences to interact with art with a smartphone or tablet, thanks to Artivive app.
Artivive’s vision is to change how art is created and consumed – and build the community around augmented reality art.
2019 Nominee
Roots Studio
Visit websiteRoots Studio digitizes thousands of endangered art from tribal communities into an online library for royalty licensing. They reclaim authorship for minority voices by averaging a 5 – 20x return from the original selling price, working with over 3000 artists in India, China, Panama, Iraq, Jordan, amongst others. Roots Studio has been recognized in PBS Newshour, Stanford Social Innovation Review, MIT Technology Review, TechCrunch, and Forbes 30 Under 30.
2019 Nominee
Feral Horses
Visit websiteFeral Horses is a crowd investment platform that allows everyone to own and invest in the art they love.
In 2021, Feral Horses was acquired by artsquare.io, a fine art & collectibles tokenization platform, in the first Art Tokenization Platforms M&A operation.
2019 Nominee
LARGO
Visit websiteLargo provides data-driven intelligence to the movie industry with the proprietary technologies that show the recipes to success.
Largo’s innovative tool, LargoAI, can discover the potential of a film at very early stages, even at the script level, and provide actionable insides to improve it.
2018 Winner
NomadPlay
Visit websiteNomadPlay won the ArtTech Forum Innovation Competition for its immersive music practice application. NomadPlay is an innovative music platform that allows you to play virtually alongside prestigious musicians and musical ensembles.
2018 Nominee
DOTPHOTON
Visit websiteDotphoton™ is an image compression solution for professional applications, for example, biotech research and labs, for optical systems manufacturers, or for photographers. Their aim is to achieve the highest possible lossless compression ratio for a particular image from a particular image sensor and meanwhile guarantee full image information retention.
2018 Nominee
DEEPART
Visit websiteDeepart uses an algorithm inspired by the human brain. It uses the stylistic elements of one image to draw the content of another. It allows you to turn any image into a piece of art of any style you want, in just a few clicks. First, upload a picture of yours into Deepart’s website, choose a style, for example, Van Gogh, and the algorithm turns your picture into a work of art in the style of the Master.
2018 Nominee
ODOMA
Visit websiteODOMA is AI in the service of Cultural Heritage. They believe that public cultural heritage and private patrimony are highly valuable assets, which can be harnessed via ad-hoc AI technologies and UX Expertise, and they bring both to the table.
ODOMA provides AI technologies to extract, enrich and exploit contents from digitized or digital heritage.
2018 Nominee
DANAE
Visit websiteDigital Art Network and experiences, the platform to collect Fine Art NFTs. Inspired by the Wall Drawings by conceptual artist Sol LeWitt, DANAE is spearheading a new model of valuation and copyright management to protect and promote digital art. As this new market emerges, DANAE is setting new standards that will prioritize the reputation of digital artists.
2018 Nominee
CREAL3D
Visit websiteCREAL3D developed Light-Field imagery, a technology that is the genuine representation of how light exists in the real world, and that is used for AR and VR with fashionable glasses or headsets. Their technology is fusing real and virtual objects, enables natural eye focus, and eliminates eye strain and nausea.
2018 Nominee
VERISART
Visit websiteVERISART is an online service that allows artists to certify digital or physical creations, including NFTs, video, digital art, paintings, print editions, collectibles, and more, and to manage them all from a dashboard. VERISART applies blockchain technology to combine transparency, anonymity, and security to protect your records of creation and ownership.
2018 Nominee
CUSEUM
Visit websiteCuseum 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.
2017 Winner
Smartify
Smartify creates groundbreaking digital experiences for cultural organisations that drive engagement and generate revenue. Through its app- and device-based visitor guides, as well as interactive experiences and creative storytelling, Smartify exists to connect audiences with culture. It works in partnership with attractions of every size, bringing their collections and the stories that make them special into people’s hands.
2017 Nominee
Classeek
Visit websiteWhat if the industry could source a constant stream of top-level talent that bubbles up through data? The field will benefit from following and then anticipating the latest trends and rising musicians.
Classeek developed an algorithm that allows unique data analysis modeling and tracks trends through market data, helping artists and agents find new opportunities and make career decisions.
2017 Nominee
Théoriz Studio
Visit websiteA multi-awarded studio gathering a team of professional engineers, visual artists, and creative developers, combining scientific and artistic research to create beautiful and unconventional experiences with cutting-edge technologies.
2017 Nominee
Rayform
Visit websiteRayform provides a unique technology for artists and designers, allowing them to “sculpt” light. This enables completely new design and storytelling opportunities to create memorable experiences and prevent counterfeiting.
2017 Nominee
Zoe (Former Apelab)
Visit websiteApelab, Inc. decided to concentrate on Zoe, an app that enables creators to build and play 3D interactive experiences, and became Zoe Immersive, Inc. in 2021.
2017 Nominee
iazzu
Visit websiteThe way how people view and buy art is changing as a new generation of buyers matures.
This free app connects art lovers with art exhibitors. The two parties can live-chat about artworks, collectors may visualize pieces in their own rooms via Augmented Reality, and everyone involved benefits from easy 24/7 access to one another – all around the globe.
2017 Nominee
Vochlea
Visit websiteVochlea Music is a creative technology company specializing in fun, easy-to-use software and hardware for music makers. They’ve created an AI Audio Engine that triggers drum samples instantly by making any percussive sound; beatboxing, clicking, clapping, or even the sound of a homemade drum kit.
2017 Nominee
Panthea
Visit websitePANTHEA is the European leader of surtitling solutions for performing arts. It is the only company that offers complete services in this field.
2017 Nominee
Iconem
Visit websiteFounded in 2013 and active in 21 countries, ICONEM specializes in the 3D digitization of cultural heritage sites, monuments, and objects. Their team of experts travels the globe, combining the large-scale scanning capacity of drones and the photorealistic quality of 3D to create digital replicas of our most treasured places, record them for future generations, and champion them today.