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UNPRECEDENTED AUTHENTICITY
Powerful image-authentication software
Our (existing!) software is able to scan and match an artwork’s unique digital fingerprint by capturing its finest textural details. Once this fingerprint is stored on the blockchain, the artwork is essentially unforgeable: this powerful software detects even the most sophisticated fake.
UNPRECEDENTED TRANSPARENCY
A blockchain-powered cataloguing and transaction platform
At the heart of our blockchain-based platform are the artworks’ forgery-proof profiles including their digital fingerprints, history, and provenance. For any transaction, smart contracts and the decentralized nature of the blockchain guarantee the highest security standards. This finally offers the unprecedented transparency the art world has lacked.
UNPRECEDENTED OPPORTUNITIES
Value for the entire arts ecosystem
The best solutions are those that benefit all. Our authentication protocol works for art portfolios large or small, for individual owners or big institutions. For insurers and logistic firms, it makes instant condition reports quick and easy and offers novel track & trace functionality. And not least, it opens the way for artists to earn from resales of their works.
Current Phase:
ICO - STAGE 4
we raised
Start of the phase: 31. October 2018
End of this phase: 31. December 2018
Token rate: € 0.30
PRESS
Whitepaper
An unprecedented standard of transparency, authenticity, and security for the art world.
Hundreds of millions of dollars are lost to art fraud each year. With our powerful image-authentication software, we render artworks forgery-proof. This new authentication standard logs an artwork’s unique fingerprint, its history and provenance on the blockchain – balancing the industry’s need for greater transparency with state-of-the-art security.
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Roadmap
Follow our roadmap and choose the right time for your investment. Various bonuses may be offered based on the time and volume of your investment.
STAGE 1
Tokens on sale for € 0.08
by invitation only
The Closed Group is only available to first investors who are in close contact with 4ARTechnologies. They’re deeply integrated in the project as a whole and give important feedback that helps improve the final product. As a reward for this valuable feedback, they receive tokens at the lowest possible price.
4ART App - Actively running app development
STAGE 2
Tokens on sale for € 0.10
The best time for investors who were not members of the Closed Group and who want to achieve the lowest possible price and highest return for their investment. This is also the best time to purchase larger amounts of tokens.
4ART App - Development is aimed to launch the Alpha version of the App
STAGE 3
Tokens on sale for € 0.20
The 4ART ICO Early Bird provides a good middle ground for investors who wanted to make sure that the ICO was proceeding successfully, but still, want to benefit from higher bonuses than offered during the public crowdsale.
4ART App - Alpha testing is active and further integration of APIs is prepared
STAGE 4
Tokens on sale for € 0.30
4Art ICO End 31. December 2018
The most published sale for the general public. With development running at full speed and support growing, everything is prepared for a massive tide of investors. The first artworks are recorded on the Blockchain using the 4ART App.After the ICO ends, the tokens will be listed on Cryptocurrency Exchanges.
4ART App - Rollout in European Markets in Q1 2019, followed by US markets. Development for more features and optimization
STAGE 5
Initiator / Founders / First Investors
NIKO KIPOUROS
FOUNDER/CEO
As an established arts broker and collector with over two decades of experience, Nikos knows the art world inside out – and he is excited to have found a solution to one of its greatest challenges. With a successful track record as an entrepreneur and investor whose portfolio includes more than 50 companies, Nikos combines excellent business sense with a profound understanding of the art industry and its intricacies.
Rolf Maier 
First Investor
The long-time CEO of a 70-strong insurance brokerage, Rolf is both an impassioned arts collector and experienced manager with great strategic acumen. Having served the art world as an insurance broker for over 35 years, he is delighted to spearhead the development of an innovative service that will enhance security and cut costs for his many trusted partners in the industry.
DESIGNATED DIRECTORS
CHRISTINA KIPOUROS
Trained as an insurance broker, Christina specialises in the field of art investments. With her in-depth understanding of the needs and desires of insurers and artwork owners, she empowers 4ARTechnologies to place customers’ concerns at the heart of both product development and marketing.
DINO LEWKOWICZ
Having served in leading functions on both the hardware and software side of digital industries, Dino Lewkowicz knows how to bring to life great products built around customer needs. He previously worked as CMO for Iteora, a German-Russian mobile Fintech development outfit.
SERGE J. Poliakov
Serge Poliakov develops innovative forms of advertising to create transparency and to give his customers the desired success or the opportunity to reach the right target group at the right time. He supports with his innovative advertising technologies, international network of media specialists and press work in Eastern Europe. Serge combines Western and Eastern European cultures and business practices. His access to decision-makers in the Eastern European art scene, business and politics is second to none.
TEAM
Reinhold Wentsch
With over twenty years experience in marketing, IT and insurance, Reinhold is committed to helping launch product that lives up to its promises of trust, security, and transparency. A self-avowed geek, Reinhold combines serious tech knowledge with ample creativity.
MONJA MAIER
A marketer and PR specialist with a love of the arts, Monja brings to 4ARTechnologies her keen eye for good storytelling as well as a wealth of innovative ideas.
DESIGNATED DIRECTORS FAR EAST
DESIGNATED DIRECTORS
4ARTechnologies Asia
Joachim Haas
Joachim Haas is President and Director of Northwest Oil & Gas Trading Company; he advises companies on entering the stock market, investor relations as well as capital and assets.
Peter Cheung
The founder of Blockchains Limited and Artchain AI Limited, Peter Cheung is one of the pioneers of the field. He draws on twenty years of experience as a private investor and merchant banker with a successful track record in industries such as natural gas, oil, mining, pharmaceuticals and technology.
ADVISORY BOARD
Advisory Board Technology
Thorsten Tritschler
With over 30 years of experience in the security printing sector as part of Atlantic Zeiser, Thorsten is an expert in all areas of authentication - from technology right up to marketing and sales. He advises 4ARTechnologies on how to bring a game-changing technology to a wider audience.
Ali Naqi Shaheen
Ali is a serial entrepreneur, information architect, and business angel whose focus is on driving growth through platforms, customer and employee experience and blockchain technology applications. As Chief Product Officer at eKomi, a Goldman Sachs backed company, he has a successful track record in taking products from zero to toplining the company's revenue; as Technical Co-Founder, he is known for his ability to envision and design complex systems that simplify architecture for growth and speed.
Thomas Obitz
As Managing Director of Atlantic Zeiser, Thomas draws on his expertise in economics and law as well as his natural entrepreneurial spirit. With global experience in leadership and corporate strategy management, he will advise 4ARTechnologies on becoming a successful organization across all its stages of development.
Kai Zeh
With a career that boasts positions such as Director Technology & Client Partner Digital for the Publicis Group, Vice President Customer Success & Operations for eKomi and Development Director within the WPP group, Kai is highly skilled at realizing projects that fuse the latest tech with user-centric innovation. Renowned as a great and inspiring team leader, Kai is as much development director and expert developer in his own right as he is a visionary for leadership and organizational development. Over the course of his career, he has brought over 350 software and hardware solutions to market; his clients have included Volkswagen, Audi, BMW, Commerzbank, Deutsche Post DHL, Ergo, Microsoft, Louis Vuitton, Intelligent Systems Co. and Telekom.
Advisory Board Finance
Kurt Spirig
Kurt Spirig is an expert in investment and asset management and digital innovation strategy. In recognition of his achievements in customer-centric end-to-end systems, he was awarded Expo Cologne’s CRM Award and helped found the Competence Center for Customer-Centric Business Models at the University of Sankt Gallen. In addition to advising major players in banking and finance on developing blockchain eco systems, he recently founded ARTeco, 4ARTechnologies’ strategic partner.
Christian Kendlbacher
Having held executive positions at global corporations as well as in the Swiss public sector, Christian Kendlbacher now advises companies on all matters controlling and finance. He is the CFO of 4ARTechnologies - partner ARTeco.
Advisory Board Art
Raimund Stecker
Raimund Stecker is one of Germany’s leading art historians. Before joining the University of Fine Arts Essen as Professor of Art History, Stecker headed up several museums and foundations. In addition to the consulting services he provides to museums, he serves as a member of various juries and committees, e.g. for Art Cologne.
Andrea von Bredow
Andrea von Bredow is an art historian and master in law having more than 20 years of professional experience in the inter- national art market. Through her various cooperations with the global players of the art world, she has pro found market knowledge within this sector. Since 2000 she has been working as an art expert in Wealth Man- agement at Deutsche Bank AG.
Advisory Board Media
Manfred Meier
Manfred Meier, for many years Chief Editor Entertainment and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Europe’s largest news-paper. BILD had a daily run of 4.3 million at that time. Prior to this he worked as a reporter in cities such as Los Angeles, Moscow and Beijing. His book - The Miracle of Lengede” described one of the world’s greatest mining dramas. He then turned to the TV business industry and advised one of the largest television formats of all time: - “Wetten, dass…” reached up to 20 million viewers. At 4ARTechnologies, Mr Meier takes care of linking up with the worldwide media.
Michael Keusgen
Michael Keusgen has been Managing Director of Siegfried GmbH since July 2003. In this function, he headed perennial media projects, mainly international projects. Siegfried GmbH continuously produces selected documentaries under the direction of Michael Keusgen and through its subsidiary FiletFilm GmbH a larger volume of reports and magazines for various TV stations. He studied Chinese and Geography at the School of Oriental and African Studies SOAS in London.
Advisory Board Legal
Christian Maeder
Christian Maeder is an attorney-at-law and certified tax expert in Switzerland. He advises numerous crypto and blockchain companies in Switzerland from a Swiss regulatory, legal and tax perspective. Christian Maeder worked many years for large international consulting firms before joining Reichlin Hess AG, a law firm in Zug, where he took over the responsibility of the development of the tax and crypto practice.
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