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[solution] WHAT IS TEKUMA?
$ more MORE art ART
more bookings BETTER WORKPLACE
happy HAPPYguests CLIENTS
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Tekuma curates and stages Airbnbs with art. We provide a cost effective way to improve the aesthetics and rental appeal of space, allowing Airbnb hosts TEKUMA PROVIDES ON-DEMAND CURATION TO BRING to capture higher revenue through more bookings and better ratings.
UNIQUE ART TO SPACE.
We activate your space into an art gallery to enhance and reflect your company’s brand, culture and values. Once your gallery is activated, we create an online profile for the upgraded space for you to share and enable social engagement with the art. [confidential] 7
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ACTIVATE YOUR GALLERY WITH TEKUMA THE SIMPLEST WAY TO STAND OUT #SHAREYOURWALLS 5
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““A beautiful and socially engaged work environment reflects the culture of the business, a culture of everything that motivates and drives people.”
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WHY WORK WITH TEKUMA?
We personalize each space with art to provide a gallery amenity We are a one stop online platform to curate and distribute the gallery experience Boost your employees motivation with an authentic workplace
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Impress clients with the authentic art and social impact of supporting artists Enhance and reflect your company’s brand and values Earn additional revenue with every artwork sold to cover your investment
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THE TEKUMA PROCESS
Tekuma creates physical art galleries to humanize generic spaces into authentic experiences. It can be hard to find good unique art that is not expensive. With Tekuma, there is no need for costly interior designers or art advisors. We handle it for you
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Receive space info.
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At the request of clients, we create art tags to enable sales and discovery of the artist.
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MEET ONE OF OUR CLIENTS METIS COMMUNICATIONS With 23 full-time employees and a global partner network, Metis Communications has been providing superior public relations client service since 2005. A new startup within the marketing world, it was imperative that their space reflects their spirit and attitude.
Tekuma worked closely with the Metis team to co-ordinate the art in their new office space. Immediately we impressed them with our startup method to deliver fast results as efficient as possible. We curated each space with a unique theme. After the space was activated into an art gallery, employees shared photos of their workplace on social media and so did the artists that were represented.
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THE METIS PROJECT CONCEPT
We crafted an art proposal suited to Metis’s needs. Our curators carefully looked at their commercial space and their company brand to enhance employee and client experience. Their desire to attract millenials was a clear motive to their space into a unique venue for art.
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1 Office 8 Spaces
24 Artworks 8 Artists
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CUSTOMIZE 8 ROOMS
At Tekuma we believe every space should be made unique. Our expertise and process is to provide high quality personalization on themes or styles for every space. For Metis we exhibited one artist per space This prompted guests of Metis to explore the whole office and experience a sense of community.
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WHAT WAS IN EACH GALLERY?
Tekuma delivers more than just art, we believe in experience. A gallery is a unique guest amenity that transforms their stay into a memorable experience. They will long to come back to your properties and discover more artists. We integrate technology to enable a social engagement ike no other. We offer guests the opportunity to purchase the work through the gallery website designed for you.
Selected Artworks
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Gallery Website
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Installation Guide
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A gallery book was designed for the Metis project to highlight the work in the space.
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We provide an installation guide to help you know how and where to install. If you would like, we do offer a white glove installation service
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TESTIMONIALS FROM CLIENTS
Christina Andrade, Metis Communications ‘‘I cannot express to you how excited the team is about all of the art. It looks great! Our clients love the work too, its amazing to hear our team pitch these artists, it does feel like we have a gallery here.’
Laura Steglich, Inteahouse co-working space ‘‘Within an hour, our bare walls were completely transformed. We had not realized our office could look so nice. Our entrepreneurs love working here!’
Justus Eapan, Northout Office Boston ‘The strangest thing happened when you were done with the art installation. My guys started cleaning the office.’
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MEET SOME OF OUR ARTISTS
Decue Wu, Boston Among other visual arts, DQ works in fashion, graphic design, and illustration. Her work has been featured in several blogs and publications including Airbnb, Vogue, Draw A Dot, and Fashionary Hand.
Jeff Powers, Boston Jeff is an artist represented by Art Lifting, a benefit corporation that provides homeless and disabled artists the opportunity to earn their own income. To Jeff, art is therapeutic and gives him purpose.
Alessandro Babini, Boston Alessandro is the CEO of Humon, an MIT spinoff building the next generation of sports wearables to enhance human performance. He often compares his art to the process of building a startup.
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T E K U M A
Tekuma is an emerging award-winning startup founded in 2015 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, USA At the intersection of art, technology and real estate. Our curation platform aims to solve the problem of exhibiting and buying art. Too much talent and creativity goes unseen and lacks exposure. In the meantime, there is a lot of spaces with walls that could be authentic and unique. By embracing the sharing economy, we want to help people activate their living spaces into vibrant art galleries. Our vision is to build the world’s largest gallery, unleashing the potential in millions of spaces and artworks.
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MISSION We want to democratize the arts by creating beautiful galleries everywhere. Bringing more culture to our everyday spaces.
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OUR STORY
We were students at the MIT School of Architecture & Center for Real Estate when we were inspired to create Tekuma. The idea stemmed when no one showed up to our final design presentation, this frustrated us as we had no where to show our hard work. We thought why not just place the work in public spaces.. We got in trouble when we had a pop up gallery in the lobby of MIT’s business school. At midnight we went back to remove the art, but due to the rain we had another idea. Instead, we placed an artwork in every study room and placed a label which said ‘scan the code, pay for the art and take it’ . In a month we sold 7 out of 20. It was then we realized we did not just add value to the art but to the experience of the space as well. We embrace the challenge to solve the inefficiency in the art industry today. Traditional galleries have become outdated, quite elitist and are limited in real estate. With so much creative talent and plenty of walls that need it, we had to do something to connect the two.
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THE HACK
We bought frames from IKEA. Printed our classmates’ work and hacked MIT Sloan business school with art. These are the tags we used.
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OUR TEAM We are not your typical art provider. We are architects, artists, programmers and storytellers. With a background in design, hospitality and real estate, our unique sets of skills allow us to provide you an art encounter like no other,
Marwan Aboudib CEO
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Kun Qian Technology
Naomi Hebert Operations
Rahul Muchhal Business Dev.
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TEKUMA IN THE MEDIA
[Top 7 student-founded startups to watch out for in 2016 by BostInno] [Featured in Skift’s top daily startup watch] [Winner of the 2016 MIT Creative Arts Venture award] [Among top 4 MIT startups to be featured in edx’s online entrepreneurship class]
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We are currently accepting pilots globally with retail brands and offices. If you are an interested company and would like to partner or learn more please contact us at
hello@tekuma.io
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Activate Your Gallery PAR TNER WI TH TEKUMA
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