British auction house Christie’s announced the launch of a venture fund focused on technology companies developing products in the art space.
Initially, the Christie’s Ventures team will focus on three areas:
- Web3;
- art-finance digital products;
- solutions that enable unimpeded interaction with art objects.
The fund’s first investments went to LayerZero Labs, which is developing a cross-chain protocol.
As reported, Christie’s has been active in the digital-art segment. In March 2021, at auction, Christie’s sold a NFT by artist Beeple for $69.3 million, in May — nine NFTs from the CryptoPunks collection.
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