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Arthena (YC W17) — Quantitative investment in art assets

Arthena is a financial product that gives you access to the alternative asset class with the highest barrier to entry and strongest historical returns. We invest in the most liquid segment of the art market, with the lowest volatility, yielding tremendous growth uncorrelated to traditional investments.

Arthena is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2017 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Quantitative Investment in Art Assets. The founders listed are Madelaine D'Angelo (Founder/CEO), Michael DAngelo (Founder/CTO) (Y Combinator directory entry, November 3, 2016).

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Arthena

New accelerator entry · 2016-11-03 · the record

Winter 2017
batch
12
people
Growth
stage
United States of America
region
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What the record says

BatchWinter 2017
Announced2016-11-03
StageGrowth
StatusAcquired
Team size12
IndustryFintech
Sub-industryFintech -> Asset Management
SectorsInvesting
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedNew York City, NY, USA; New York, NY, USA
HiringNo
Sitehttps://www.arthena.com

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Arthena is a financial product that gives you access to the alternative asset class with the highest barrier to entry and strongest historical returns. We invest in the most liquid segment of the art market, with the lowest volatility, yielding tremendous growth uncorrelated to traditional investments. Arthena’s automated and data driven investment strategy regulates art investment by building traditional fund structures. HNWI’s can now securely and confidently diversify their portfolios into alternative assets focusing on the luxury market. Arthena has designed and built a statistically rigorous model that estimates the value of artwork over time. Since the data we obtain derives from auction records and repeat sales, our model relies on a set of features about each result. These features include include the artist’s name, medium, date of creation, origin of location and size of work. After identifying groups of work that are similar to each other, we calculate the expected ROI and estimated volatility based on the distribution of gains. Using historical auction results to simulate the performance of our funds, we leverage Monte Carlo analysis to determine annualized returns and sharpe ratios. Based on this analysis, Arthena can validate the financial viability of our product and establish statistically rigorous bounds for these estimates.

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