Brice Lecompte, an engineer turned entrepreneur, and Véra Kempf, a serial founder and entrepreneur (with a ardour for the work of photographer Robert Capa), based the web gallery Singulart in Paris in 2017. They understood that there was an enormous untapped curiosity and demand for artwork, a market that conventional galleries have been ignoring. However additionally they knew that success can be constructed on matching on-line accessibility with private service, skilled recommendation and a guiding hand, when required. And on providing artists not simply area however complete assist. It rapidly turned clear that Singulart’s mannequin had huge potential. In 2021, the startup raised €60m in Sequence B investments, the most important single fundraising ever within the artwork business.