Kanvas.ai will be the first Baltic NFT marketplace to offer Tezos Art NFTs
Tallinn, Estonia, September 14, 2022, Chainwire
Estonian art startup, Kanvas.aiannounced that it will be the first Baltic art NFT marketplace to offer art NFTs created on Tezos blockchain. The Estonian art startup offers a curated platform for NFT art collectors with support from the Tezos Foundation.
Kanvas.ai is the first art start-up in Estonia that offers artists, collectors and galleries various technical solutions built on the Tezos blockchain that boasts a thriving fvirtual buying and selling environment, collectors’ secondary market, online exhibitions, opportunities to use NFTs and augmented reality technology.
“Our platform offers these opportunities to artists and galleries, and thus the art reaches a much wider audience. With the help of the support, we can develop the technical side related to NFTs and expand to other European countries as well,” said Astrid Laupmaa, co-founder and CEO of Kanvas.ai. “We are excited to now offer art NFTs created on Tezos. Additionally, we look forward to joining the thriving Tezos art community and to becoming part of such a supportive creative ecosystem,” said Laupmaa.
According to Laupmaa, Kanvas.ai has not received any major funding rounds so far, as the company’s focus has been on developing appropriate technology. The Tezos Foundation’s support allows the company to build new technology on the platform, after which Kanvas.ai plans to conduct a larger investment round. The first angel investors of the platform were Sonny Aswani, Marek Pärtel and Julian Kaljuveeactive as investors in the landscape of Estonian startups.
Among other things, the Kanvas.ai platform expands the possibilities for artists with the help of NFT technology. NFT art ensures the authenticity of the work, it also helps artists increase their income. “Using NFT technology solves the problem in the art world where the artist is left out of the sales chain. This allows artists to create a network, communicate with buyers and monitor the movement of their work. On our platform, when artists sell virtual art, they get a 10% commission on each transaction – even if the work is sold on the secondary market, the artist also gets a portion of that, Laupmaa said.
Currently 75 professional artists from all over the world, including Estonia’s Raoul Kurvitz, The wilderness of Kunnapu and Kaupo Kikkas , and 20 collectors have joined the Kanvas.ai platform. The company has also held exhibitions with several local galleries, such as Põhjala Gallery, Telliskivi Creative Campus and Solaris Gallery.
About Kanvas.ai
Kanvas.ai is an Estonian startup that offers artists, collectors and galleries a digital platform for commerce and networking. Kanvas.ai provides the best tools to invest in art by offering the latest technologies in the secondary market, including artindex.
The Estonian startup opens traditional art to the global audience, the NFT market on the Tezos blockchain and allows various payment options, including crypto. Furthermore, Kanvas.ai offers tailored NFT consultation through webinars.
The attached photos above show Kanvas.ai co-founder and CEO Astrid Laupmaa and the Kanvas.ai team taken by photographer Daria Prasko.
About Tezos
Tezos is smart money, redefining what it means to hold and exchange value in a digitally connected world. Tezos is a self-upgradable and energy-efficient blockchain with a proven track record of seamlessly adopting tomorrow’s innovations without network disruption today. For more information, please visit
About the Tezos Foundation
The Tezos Foundation is a Swiss foundation, under the supervision of the Swiss Federal Foundation Supervisory Authority which is part of the Swiss Federal Ministry of the Interior. The Tezos Foundation’s purpose is to promote and develop new technologies and applications, particularly in new open and decentralized software architectures, including the promotion and development of the Tezos protocol and related technologies. For more information, please visit
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