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ACTIVATE YOUR GALLERY WITH TEKUMA THE SIMPLEST WAY TO STAND OUT
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INTRODUCTION
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HOW IT WORKS
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CASE STUDIES
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OUR COMPANY
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WHAT IS TEKUMA?
ART WITH STORY
BETTER ENVIRONMENT
HAPPY CLIENTS
POWERFUL BRAND IMAGE
TEKUMA CURATES YOUR SPACE WITH ART. We transform your space into an art gallery to enhance and reflect your company’s brand, culture and values. More than color on the walls, we bring stories by artists to your space. We are a one-stop shop and provide a cost-effective way to improve the aesthetic and appeal of your properties.
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One of our Airbnb test labs in Cambridge, MA.
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A furnished space
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A curated space
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“A beautiful and socially engaged environment reflects the culture of the business, a culture of everything that motivates and drives people.�
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WHY WORK WITH TEKUMA?
Personalize each space with art to provide a gallery amenity. Improve the value of your property. Help your guests discover local culture and talent.
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Capture higher revenue with more occupancy and better reviews. Earn additional revenue with every artwork sold. Convey your company’s brand and values by sharing your walls.
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NETWORK OF GALLERIES IN BOSTON
Within the Boston area, we have over 70 installed galleries including Airbnbs, offices, coworking spaces, and a 30-apartment building.
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Some of our gallery projects... Flatbook (15 Airbnbs) Compass Furnished Apartments (30 apartments) Metis Communications (office headquarters) Inteahouse (incubator space) Pilot Tekuma Airbnbs (3 apartments)
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Our Process ‘Art Curation’ at Tekuma Why technology? Testimonials
How it works.
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OUR PROCESS
Tekuma creates physical art galleries to transform generic spaces into authentic experiences. We connect artists to space, and turn bare walls into independant galleries.
1. Receive space info.
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2. Send art proposal.
3. Prepare custom cart.
4. Ship artworks to doorsteps.
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At the request of clients, we create art tags to enable sales and allow guests to discover more about the artist.
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WHAT IS ‘ART CURATION’ AT TEKUMA? We craft our art proposals with care. Our art proposals focus on your property and your brand. The proposal can be broken into three components. 1. Select
2. Organize
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1. We select local artists from our database whose stories reflect your company values and whose aesthetics suit your environment. 2. We organize the artworks based on the configuration and function of your space. 3. We send a proposal with concept curation, artworks, artist stories and instructions to set up your art collection.
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Our curators are architecture, design and fine arts graduates. They work hand in hand with our programmers to find the best artist match for your property.
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WHY TECHNOLOGY?
Efficient Curation It is easy to miss out on the latest art content and be overwhelmed with the surplus of available artists. Our platform allows our curators to find the artwork that meets all of your criteria. Art Database Searching for the perfect piece, learning more about the artist, and eventually purchasing an artwork can be difficult and time consuming. Our curators have done all of that work and, with the help of our programmers, are building the largest curated art database. Scaling & Global Access Curated collections are made available to our database on a daily basis. Browse beautifully designed art packages for your property in Singapore or in London.
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Stephen, MIT CS and one of our tech leads, helped implement the latest reactive web-app technology into our artist platform.
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TESTIMONIALS
Eric Flemming, President at Compass ‘‘We needed to attract more millennials and make our guests feel special. We believed in Tekuma’s mission to make art more accessible. Our goal is to innovate within our industry to compete’.’ Bibi Careau, Operations Coordinator at Flatbook ‘‘Tekuma is not your run-of-the-mill art supplier; they offer beautiful and distinctive pieces, specifically catered so that each print has its place and its story. Not only did they enhance some of our spaces, but they did so quickly and efficiently, while maintaining excellent communication with our team. I would recommend Tekuma to anyone (...) looking to give their guests a taste of the local art scene.’’ Compass Guest ‘‘My husband and I stayed for one week in the ARTlab, almost every night we would visit a floor to see the art in the common areas. We can not wait to come back and stay in a new unit with new art.’’
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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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Client: Metis Communications Offices Client: Compass Furnished Apartments Client: Flatbook Airbnbs Deliverables Value Proposition
Case Studies
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MEET ONE OF OUR CLIENTS METIS COMMUNICATIONS
We crafted an art proposal suited to Metis’ needs. Our curators carefully looked at their space and company brand to enhance employee and client experience. Their desire to attract millenials was a clear motive for converting their space into a unique venue for art.
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1 Office 8 Spaces
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We customized 8 rooms. Metis wanted each of its rooms, whether a conference room or recreation area, to have its own identity. We exhibited one artist per space, and sourced different mediums including illustration, photography, 3D scanning and painting. This prompted employees to explore the whole office, read about the artists on display and experience a sense of community.
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8 Artists | 8 Galleries
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Metis Communications
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Metis Communications,
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MEET ONE OF OUR CLIENTS COMPASS FURNISHED APARTMENTS For the last decade, Compass has been a leading provider of both short-term and long-term fully furnished apartments throughout the Northeastern United States. With a strong focus on high quality apartments and “concierge-style” customer service, Compass quickly stood out from the crowd. Today they have over 500 luxury apartments across 4 states.
With growing competition in the hospitality industry and a booming Airbnb ecosystem, it was Compass’ goal to provide an unmatched guest experience. We helped make that a reality with our innovative art curation service.
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We crafted an art proposal suited to Compass’ needs. Our curators carefully looked at their property and company brand to enhance their high-quality guest experience. As a result of our assessment, ARTlab was born, a rebranding of their property into a unique venue for art.
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30 Apartments One Property
180 Artworks 30 Artists
$750-1000 Budget per Gallery
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We customized 30 apartments for Compass. Lowering costs typically entails mass-produced artworks and generic furnishings. At Tekuma, we believe every space should feel unique. Our expertise and services provide high-quality personalization at competitive prices. At Compass, we exhibited one artist per unit, transforming each apartment into a unique component of their property portfolio.
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30 Artists | 30 Galleries
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Compass, 1085 Boylston
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Welcome your guests with beautiful artwork in the lobby. Offer them insightful narratives about each artist as they wait for the elevator.
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Guests should be excited about their stay upon first glance. Common areas offer the perfect opportunity to create a welcoming, engaging, and inspiring guest experience.
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MEET ONE OF OUR CLIENTS FLATBOOK
Flatbook is a professional Airbnb host with more than 500 units in North America. With the tagline ‘Where you want to be’, their short-term rentals offer an authentic stay authentic stays in deep rooted neighborhoods. Displaying Tekuma artists in their Boston apartments was the perfect way to bring local artists and culture into their property.
After Tekuma replaced Flatbook’s existing interiors with 5 prototype units, our team furnished 9 of their varied size apartments with art. We acted quickly, catering to Flatbook’s one month request.
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Flatbook is based in Montreal with apartments all over North America.
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Flatbook, 21 Beacon Street
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Flatbook, 1440 Beacon Street
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Flatbook, 175 Freeman Street
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Flatbook, 300 Harrison Street
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VALUE PROPOSITION
Why did Compass and Flatbook work with us? They wanted to enhance guest experience and boost revenue. Our short-term leasing clients understood that our gallery product is a cost-effective way to increase rental appeal, receive better reviews, increase bookings and collect higher earnings.
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ASSUMPTIONS
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DELIVERABLES
Tekuma delivers more than 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 like no other. We offer guests the opportunity to purchase the work through the gallery website designed for you.
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Gallery Website
Gallery Book
Installation Guide
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Renderings can be provided depending on the scale of the project.
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Sample client mock-up of their main lobby installation.
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Tools Auto Levelling Laser Tip! This is helpful when placing multiple artworks in a row.
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Common Areas 5 artworks framed in white. Frames of 25’’x25’’ or 25’’x37’’.
Tip! Center middle piece with the elevators. Rather than measuring the wall and finding the midpoint, use the elevators as a reference.
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1 Prepare wall surface by removing existing nails.
5 Position height of nails on wall .
Tip! Install sawtooth hanger at both top corners. This will help with the leveling process.
6 Position level laser at desired height if hanging multiple artworks.
3 Measure distance between the two hanging support.
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Wall in front of the elevator.
Position artwork on wall, using the middle point as a reference. It
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Hang art and adjust until it is level by nudging the artwork.
Place art tag in the common area, roughly 3’’ away from the artwork.
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Art placement guidelines, recommended tools, hardware and care instructions are shared with our clients.
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A gallery book was designed for the Compass ARTlab project.
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Our Mission Our Story Our Team Awards In the News
About Tekuma
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OUR MISSION
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. In the meantime, there is a lot of properties that could be authentic and unique. By embracing the sharing economy, we want to help people activate their living spaces into vibrant art galleries.
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We want to democratize the arts by creating beautiful galleries everywhere. We bring culture to 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 sparked the idea of displaying our work in Airbnbs. We embraced the challenge and wanted to solve the inefficiencies of today’s art industry. Traditional galleries 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. We believe that art should be accessible. Tekuma works to ensure that every space can be transformed into an art gallery, where artists’ stories are told and their work is sold.
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HIGHLIGHTED REVIEWS(ART)
Over the past 6 months we leased 3 Airbnbs in Cambridge, MA and proved the impact of art on a listing’s performance through primary market research.
To prove that our product increases revenue, we leased 3 Airbnbs in These today are our test labs for R&D Boston and demonstrated the impact of art on a listing’s performance [confidential] through primary market research and A/B testing. 9 Today, these are our test labs for R&D and initially helped support Tekuma financially.
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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 set of skills allows us to provide you an art experience like no other.
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Marwan Aboudib CEO
Kun Qian Technology
Naomi Hébert Operations
Rahul Muchhal Business Dev.
MIT dual graduate MIT dual graduate McGill University MBA fellowship from degrees in degrees in graduate degree MIT Sloan Architecture and Architecture and in Architecture School of Real Estate; Real Estate; -national awards; Management; 5+ years in the worked at OMA Kengo Kuma 12+ years in sales hospitality industry offices Associates, Paris & and bus. dev. in (Middle East); (Asia); SOM, New York Europe & India; Won awards, Represented Hong Worked at MIT Technology exhibitions for his Kong at the world startup ‘Mapdwell’ entrepreneur and photography work. Chess Olympiads. -world leading was at CPG & Media solar platform. organisation.
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AWARDS
[Winner of the 2016 MIT Creative Arts Venture award] [Top 4 MIT startups featured in edx’s online entrepreneurship class] [Top 7 student-founded startups to watch out for in 2016 by BostInno] [Featured in Skift’s top daily startup watch]
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Where do we find our artists? Why do artists trust us? Meet some of our artists Art samples
Our Artists
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WHERE DO WE FIND OUR ARTISTS?
Top Design Schools Our founding team initially reached out to their alumni communities, to implement an ambassador program at Harvard and MIT’s graduate design programs. Since then, the effort has grown to top design schools in the Northeast.
Organic Outreach We receive requests everyday through various channels (website, online store, social media) and have built a comprehensive artist portal to receive and curate submitted artworks.
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Strategic Partnerships To extend our outreach to artist communities, we partnered with companies whose catalog of art includes artists worldwide. Based in Sweden, 1X is the most exclusive photography platform (less than 5% of submissions are onboarded by their curatorial team). With headquarters in NYC and in Paris, Curioos is the world leading digital art platform. Lastly, Art.com is the world’s largest art distributor.
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WHY DO ARTISTS TRUST US?
We curate their stories We shed lights on their artworks and display cohesive art narratives. Our art presentation is not only a pleasant visual experience, but also an enriching cultural affair. We provide the best technology We invested in building a robust artist platform at the root of our art database. We provide comprehensive tools for our artists to display their work and communicate with our team. We work with the finest craftsmanship We are designers ourselves. Because of this, we understand that framing and printing specifications are of utmost importance for artists. We ensure that our manufacturers follow those guidelines.
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We organize exhibitions and local events for our artists to display their work, meet other artists and get a face-to-face with our team.
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MEET SOME OF OUR ARTISTS
Catherine Sodërberg, New York + Boston Catherine is a graduate of Harvard University’s School of Design, and experiments with sculptural and mathematically derived forms in fashion and jewelry design. Fafa Khan, Montreal Born in Montreal but hailing from Pakistan, Fafa is of Japanese and Finnish decent. She paints, dances and DJs. Her musical work inspires her to create artworks and graphics.
Kwaku Opoku, New York + Ghana Kwaku ‘REEZ’ Opoku is majoring in Integrated Design at Parsons. Art serves as Kwaku’s platform for relaying thoughts, ideas, and having social and political conversations.
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Decue Wu, Boston Among other visual arts, DQ works in fashion, graphic design, and illustration. Her work has been featured by 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.
Alessandro Babini, Boston Alessandro is the CEO of Humon, an MIT spinoff. He often compares his art to the process of building a startup.
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ACTIVATE YOUR GALLERY PA RT N E R W I T H T E K U M A
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We are currently accepting pilots with property operators and developers. If you are interested and would like learn more please contact us at
hello@tekuma.io
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