Niio

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Niio, a digital art platform, has closed a $15 million Series A funding round and announced a strategic partnership with Samsung Displays. The funding round was co-led by L Catterton, Entrée Capital, and Pico Venture Partners, with additional investors including Saga VC and various art professionals. Niio plans to use the capital to grow its artist community and scale its app-enabled subscription and purchase platform, which is blockchain-based and includes a trading-enabled marketplace for NFTs and other digital art assets. The company aims to make premium digital art easily accessible on any screen. The digital art market is projected to reach $50-$100 billion by 2025.

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Samsung Electronics has announced a partnership with Niio.Art, a digital art platform, to offer access to high-quality digital art on Samsung commercial displays. Users of Tizen-enabled Samsung displays can subscribe to pre-curated art programs, purchase individual pieces, or upload their own art through the Niio.Art player app. The collaboration aims to inspire viewers with meaningful and eye-catching digital art, allowing users to elevate the design of various spaces. Niio.Art features over 15,000 artworks by 6,000 artists and galleries from 82 countries. The partnership will be showcased on Samsung displays in showrooms and exhibitions worldwide.

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Adomni has partnered with Niio to feature Niio artworks on Ubers cartop advertising network. This partnership aims to bring color, positive energy, and creative inspiration to the audiences reached by Uber OOH. Adomni selected Niio for their expertise in curating premium moving image artworks and their extensive content library. The digital video artworks will be curated and powered by Niio, and artists participating in the program will be commissioned and paid. The artworks will be optimized for Uber OOHs screen size and resolution and displayed between ads. Adomni is a programmatic advertising platform that connects brands and agencies with on-the-go consumers via real-world digital screens, while Niio is a digital video and media art platform.

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Niio, a Tel Aviv-based startup, has the biggest digital art collection in the world. Their technology allows streaming of artworks onto any digital screen or canvas. With the impact of Covid-19, Niio has experienced a significant increase in interest from artists, with 500 signing up in just two months. They have a waiting list of 2,000 more artists. Niios customers include Hilton, Marriott, Samsung, and the Virgin Group. The company has also created a collection of virtual art Zoom backgrounds. Niio uses blockchain and AI to ensure privacy and track trends in pricing and consumer choices. They have raised approximately $10 million from investors including Entree Capital and Picot Partners.

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Niio, a popular moving-image art platform, has released a collection of 40 free backgrounds for Zoom users to replace their webcam feed backgrounds. The release is a response to the global pandemic and aims to inject inspiration, creativity, and individuality into peoples daily lives. The backgrounds feature artworks from leading artists, including abstract landscape algorithmic paintings and pieces that blur the relationships between painting and the museum. Niios mission is to provide access to premium digital artworks from a community of artists, and the full versions of the artworks are available on the Niio platform.

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Samsung Electronics and Niio have launched an open-call art competition called the Samsung The Wall x Niio Art Awards. The winner will be exhibited internationally on Samsungs The Wall 4K MicroLED display. The competition includes $15,000 in cash prizes and will take place in the summer of 2020 at ten locations worldwide. The winners will be selected by a panel of renowned experts in visual arts.

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Tel Aviv-based start-up Niio is aiming to do for digital art what Spotify did for music, Amazons Kindle did for books and Netflix did for television. Niio offers a platform for artists to display and sell their works and for customers to buy and display the artworks. The platform is used by two main groups of customers: art world customers such as collectors, galleries, museums, and artistic productions; and the business world, mainly hotels and real estate companies. The company has raised $8 million to date and is currently in the midst of raising $10 million in its first financing round.

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Tel Aviv-based company Niio is installing a moving-image art platform in 300 Marriott Aloft properties across America. Niio allows clients to choose curated collections of digital art from a wide range of artists, galleries, libraries, and collectors. The platform provides a frequently updated videocast on connected display devices via a monthly subscription. Niios digital art collections are also appearing in public spaces such as airports and property-management conglomerates. The company has clients across the globe, including shared workspace provider Meet in Place and various hotel chains. Niio was bootstrapped until a pre-seed round in 2015 and has since received investments from Entrée Capital and PICO Partners. The platform aims to make art more accessible and immersive through digital displays.

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Niio, a leading platform for digital format artwork, partnered with Sino Group, a Hong Kong-based property developer, to bring a digital art installation to Tsim Sha Tsui Centre and Empire Centre in Hong Kong. The installation features the winners of a competition hosted by Sino and Niio, with artworks centered around the themes of artistic blessing and new life. Niio offers a unique way for customers to experience and enjoy digital art in various environments. The exhibition will be on display until February.

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Niio and Cornflake have announced a new partnership to provide seamless access to gallery-level digital art in homes across the UK. The partnership combines Niios secure discovery and display technologies for new media art with Cornflakes hardware offering and installation support. Niio offers a platform for management, distribution, and display of premium new media art, while Cornflake is now offering Niios platform across all its projects. The partnership allows premium new media art to be incorporated into high-end residential, commercial, and public spaces. Cornflake is activating a rotating program of Niio-powered new media art exhibitions in its showroom apartment in London. Existing Cornflake customers can also implement the system to display digital art in their homes. Niios collection of premium video and new media art can be rented, purchased, or accessed through a subscription.

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Australias AV innovator, Corporate Initiatives, is set to launch Niios digital art discovery and display platform at the upcoming FRONT conference in Sydney. Niio is a global platform for the management, distribution, and display of digital artworks. The platform allows artists to store, preserve, and self-publish their artworks across video and new media formats. Corporate Initiatives has partnered with Niio for the distribution and implementation of the digital art platform across various sectors. The partnership will enable Corporate Initiatives to complement its high-end screens and video walls with premium content.

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At the CEDIA 2017 trade show, Meural, Blackdove, Samsung and Niio will be showcasing digital art for every type of consumer. Each solution features curated art collections, both static and moving, to appeal to every audience and pocketbook. The digital art category has blossomed with higher-end solutions, especially in the emerging genre of new media. New-media art encompasses digital technologies such as computer animation, 3D printing, virtual reality, and even biotechnology. The art involves motion or interactivity, which makes it a hit at museums, galleries and prestigious shows.