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Company | Socurio | ||
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| http://socurio.com | ||||
| Founded: | 03/01/2010 | |||
| City: | Los Angeles, California | |||
| Country: | United States | |||
| CEO: | Sasha Koehn | |||
| Founders: | Sasha Koehn, Ion Skillrud | |||
| Category: | Web Apps/Tools/Widgets | Funding: | Seed/Friends & Family | |
| Tags: | art, marketplace, artist, community, socurio, socurio.com, | Employees: | 2-5 | |
What does Socurio do?
Socurio is a marketplace and creative community for art and is focused on facilitating interaction between artists and consumers. By providing a simple, fun, and easy to use interface for exploring new art and artists, Socurio strives to educate and expose the traditional art community and those with little art exposure to a vast array of affordable original artistic solutions. Socurio was founded on the mission that “art is for everyone” and it is our goal to continue building our platform to connect artists with buyers in an effort to make a living without giving up their artistic vision.
How are they different?
While there are 100’s of artist community and registry websites, they are completely artist driven and simply allow artists to display their work. Socurio puts the focus on integrating the consumer in the community. Socurio is not another website to post your art and receive “likes” and compliments, it is a platform for artists serious about their art, who are looking for a venue to sell their work in a beautiful, clean, and community curated environment.
Why could Socurio be BIG?
Artists lack the time or resources needed to promote/market their work to consumers. Consumers are often intimidated by the idea of art, don’t know what they like, and opt instead for a mass produced easily accessible alternative. Socurio makes art more accessible to the world by connecting consumers with artists. Within seconds an artist can have an entire collection showcased to a unique targeted consumers. Because Socurio consistently maintains a diverse inventory in both price and style (Socurio supports many mediums of expression) consumers will continue using the marketplace for gifts, home furnishing and even financial investment!
How they plan to make money:
Socurio’s business model is driven by the marketplace which includes a .35 cent posting fee for an artist to sell an item for a 4 month period and a 5% transaction fee when the item is sold.
Our thoughts:
No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!
Please visit their website to learn more: http://socurio.com
