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TEKUMA PROVIDES ON-DEMAND CURATION TO BRING UNIQUE ART TO SPACE.

We activate your space into an art gallery to enhance and reflect your com-pany’s brand, culture and values. Once your gallery is activated, we create an online profile for the upgraded space for you to share and enable social

engagement with the art.

Tekuma curates and stages Airbnbs with art. We provide a cost effective way to improve the aesthetics and rental appeal of space, allowing Airbnb hosts

to capture higher revenue through more bookings and better ratings.

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more revenuemore art more bookings happy guests

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MOREART

BETTER WORKPLACE

HAPPY CLIENTS

POWERFULBRAND IMAGE

WHAT IS TEKUMA?

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THE SIMPLEST WAY TO STAND OUT ACTIVATE YOUR GALLERY WITH TEKUMA

#SHAREYOURWALLS

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GENERIC E X P E R I E N C E

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““A beautiful and socially engaged work environ-ment reflects the culture of the business, a culture

of everything that motivates and drives people.”

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WHY WORK WITH TEKUMA?

We personalize each space with art to provide a gallery amenity

We are a one stop online platform to curate and distribute the gallery experience

Boost your employees motivation with an authentic workplace

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Impress clients with the authentic art and social impact of supporting artists

Earn additional revenue with every artwork sold to cover your investment

Enhance and reflect your company’s brand and values

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THE TEKUMA PROCESS

Tekuma creates physical art galleries to humanize generic spaces into authentic experiences.

It can be hard to find good unique art that is not expensive. With Tekuma, there is no need for costly interior designers or art advisors. We handle it for you

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Receive space info.

Send art proposal.

Prepare custom cart.

Ship artworks to doorsteps.

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At the request of clients, we create art tags to enable sales and discovery of the artist.

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MEET ONE OF OUR CLIENTSMETIS COMMUNICATIONS

Tekuma worked closely with the Metis team to co-ordinate the art in their new office space. Immediately we impressed them with our startup method to deliver fast results as efficient as possible. We curated each space with a unique theme. After the space was activated into an art gallery, employees shared photos of their workplace on social media and so did the artists that

were represented.

With 23 full-time employees and a global partner network, Metis Communications has been providing superior public relations client service

since 2005. A new startup within the marketing world, it was imperative that their space reflects their spirit and attitude.

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THE METIS PROJECT CONCEPT

We crafted an art proposal suited to Metis’s needs.Our curators carefully looked at their commercial space and their company

brand to enhance employee and client experience.

Their desire to attract millenials was a clear motive to their space into a unique venue for art.

Commerical 1 Office8 Spaces

24 Artworks8 Artists

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CUSTOMIZE 8 ROOMS

At Tekuma we believe every space should be made unique. Our expertise and process is to provide high quality personalization on themes or styles for

every space.

For Metis we exhibited one artist per space

This prompted guests of Metis to explore the whole office and experience a sense of community.

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8 ARTISTS I 8 GALLERIES

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WHAT WAS IN EACH GALLERY?

Tekuma delivers more than just art, we believe in experience.

A gallery is a unique guest amenity that transforms their stay into a memorable experience. They will long to come back to your properties and discover more artists. We integrate technology to enable a social

engagement ike no other. We offer guests the opportunity to purchase the work through the gallery website designed for you.

Selected Artworks

Gallery Website Gallery Book Installation Guide

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A gallery book was designed for the Metis project to highlight the work in the space.

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We provide an installation guide to help you know how and where to install. If you would like, we do offer a white glove installation service

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TESTIMONIALS FROM CLIENTS

Laura Steglich, Inteahouse co-working space‘‘Within an hour, our bare walls were completely transformed. We had not realized our office could look so nice. Our entrepreneurs love working here!’

Christina Andrade, Metis Communications‘‘I cannot express to you how excited the team is about all of the art. It looks great! Our clients love the work too, its amazing to hear our team pitch these artists, it does feel like we have a gallery here.’

Justus Eapan, Northout Office Boston‘The strangest thing happened when you were done with the art installation. My guys started cleaningthe office.’

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MEET SOME OF OUR ARTISTS

Decue Wu, BostonAmong other visual arts, DQ works in fashion, graphic

design, and illustration. Her work has been featured in several blogs and publications including Airbnb, Vogue,

Draw A Dot, and Fashionary Hand.

Jeff Powers, BostonJeff is an artist represented by Art Lifting, a benefit

corporation that provides homeless and disabled artists the opportunity to earn their own income. To

Jeff, art is therapeutic and gives him purpose.

Alessandro Babini, BostonAlessandro is the CEO of Humon, an MIT spinoff

building the next generation of sports wearables to enhance human performance. He often compares his

art to the process of building a startup.

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Tekuma is an emerging award-winning startup founded in 2015 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in

Cambridge, USA

At the intersection of art, technology and real estate.

Our curation platform aims to solve the problem of exhibiting and buying art. Too much talent and creativity goes unseen

and lacks exposure. In the meantime, there is a lot of spaces with walls that could be authentic and unique. By embracing the sharing economy, we want to help people activate their living spaces into vibrant art galleries. Our vision is to build

the world’s largest gallery, unleashing the potential in millions of spaces and artworks.

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MISSION

We want to democratize the arts by creating beautiful galleries everywhere. Bringing more culture to our everyday spaces.

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We were students at the MIT School of Architecture & Center for Real Estate when we were inspired to create Tekuma. The idea stemmed when no one showed up to our final design presentation, this frustrated us as we

had no where to show our hard work. We thought why not just place the work in public spaces..

We got in trouble when we had a pop up gallery in the lobby of MIT’s business school. At midnight we went back to remove the art, but due to the rain we had another idea. Instead, we placed an artwork in every study room and placed a label which said ‘scan the code, pay for the art and take it’ . In a month we sold 7 out of 20. It was then we realized we did not just add value

to the art but to the experience of the space as well.

We embrace the challenge to solve the inefficiency in the art industry today. Traditional galleries have become outdated, quite elitist and are limited in

real estate. With so much creative talent and plenty of walls that need it, we had to do something to connect the two.

OUR STORY

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We bought frames from IKEA. Printed our classmates’ work and hacked MIT Sloan business school with art. These are the tags we used.

THE HACK

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OUR TEAM

We are not your typical art provider.

We are architects, artists, programmers and storytellers. With a background in design, hospitality and real estate, our unique sets of skills allow us to

provide you an art encounter like no other,

Marwan AboudibCEO

Kun QianTechnology

Naomi HebertOperations

Rahul MuchhalBusiness Dev.

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TEKUMA IN THE MEDIA

[Top 7 student-founded startups to watch out for in 2016 by BostInno]

[Featured in Skift’s top daily startup watch] [Winner of the 2016 MIT Creative Arts Venture award]

[Among top 4 MIT startups to be featured in edx’s online entrepreneurship class]

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We are currently accepting pilots globally with retail brands and offices.

If you are an interested company and would like to partner or learn more please contact us at

hello@tekuma.io

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