Tag: Sales

  • Outcraft AI raises €2M to support autonomous sales and revenue agents

    Outcraft AI, an agentic AI platform focused on autonomous revenue execution, has raised €2 million in pre-seed funding from Practica Capital. The company also received early backing from venture builder Lost Astronaut. Businesses frequently miss revenue opportunities due to delayed or inconsistent customer engagement. Leads may go cold, free users fail to convert, declined payments read more

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    Outcraft AI raises €2M to support autonomous sales and revenue agents

  • Zell raises €500K to scale AI-powered sales management

    Berlin-based Zell, an AI startup focused on automating sales management workflows, has raised €500,000 in a funding round. The round was co-led by P3 Ventures, SkyDeck Europe, UC Berkeley SkyDeck, Lendlease, and the Cariplo Factory accelerator, alongside a group of international angel investors and venture capital firms, including Mamba Ventures, Nicola Pivaro, Flavio Di Palo, read more

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    Zell raises €500K to scale AI-powered sales management

  • At Art Basel Hong Kong, Blue-Chips Report Flurry of 7-Figure Deals, While Others Lament ‘Slower Than Usual’ Sales

    Editor’s Note:This story originally appeared inOn Balance,the ARTnewsnewsletter about the art market and beyond.Sign up hereto receive it every Wednesday. Cash flowed, but confidence trickled on Day 1 of Art Basel Hong Kong, wherea cross-section of the 240 galleries offered a spectrum ofresponses to one simple question: How are sales? At Hauser & Wirth, MarcPayot,presiding overa read more

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  • Christie’s Triple-Header 20th and 21st Century Evening Sales Nets $265 M., as London Proves It’s Still a Draw to Collectors

    This week has shown that there’s still a lot of money sloshing around London’s art market; Christie’s three-pronged 21st/20th century evening sale on Thursday took £197.5 million ($265 million), one day after Sotheby’s modern and contemporary auction brought £131 million ($175 million). The result marked a 52 percent increase on the house’s equivalent sale last read more

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    Christie’s Triple-Header 20th and 21st Century Evening Sales Nets 5 M., as London Proves It’s Still a Draw to Collectors

  • Catherine Pégard French Culture Minister; Frieze LA Sales

    To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. The Headlines MACRON PICKS PÉGARD. Catherine Pégard, former president of the Chateau de Versailles and a close ally of French president Emmanuel Macron, will become the new French culture minister, reports Le Monde. Unconfirmed guestimates that she would replace the outgoing Rachida Dati weremaking the read more

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    Catherine Pégard French Culture Minister; Frieze LA Sales

  • Agaton raises $10 million to expand its AI platform for sales teams

    Stockholm-based Agaton, an agentic AI platform that uses voice analysis to help enterprise sales teams identify and act on opportunities in customer conversations, has emerged from stealth and raised $10 million in total seed funding. The round was co-led by Inception Fund and Alstin Capital, with participation from seed+speed Ventures and Foundry Ventures. Additional investors read more

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    Agaton raises million to expand its AI platform for sales teams

  • What Would Happen to Auction Houses If Luxury Sales Outstrip Art Sales?

    Editor’s Note:This story originally appeared inOn Balance,the ARTnewsnewsletter about the art market and beyond.Sign up hereto receive it every Wednesday. This story is also part of a new series on the convergence of art andluxury. See all ofour reporting on the topic here. Since I started reporting on the convergence of the art and luxury read more

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    What Would Happen to Auction Houses If Luxury Sales Outstrip Art Sales?

  • ‘Old Masters Are Back!’ New York Sales Set Records for Gentileschi, Michelangelo, and Rembrandt

    Editor’s Note:This story originally appeared inOn Balance,the ARTnewsnewsletter about the art market and beyond.Sign up hereto receive it every Wednesday. As an Old Masters auction started up in a packed room at Sotheby’s new Madison Avenue headquarters on Thursday morning, the auctioneer, David Pollack, made an unusual announcement. By far the top-priced work in the read more

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    ‘Old Masters Are Back!’ New York Sales Set Records for Gentileschi, Michelangelo, and Rembrandt

  • First Art Basel Qatar Closed with Institutional Acquisitions, Mid-Market Strength, and Measured Sales Momentum

    Art Basel Qatar closed its inaugural edition this week with numbers that suggest Doha has quickly established itself as a serious market platform. Getting there required patience. Selling in Doha was always going to unfold differently. The Qatari royal family was given a private walkthrough on Monday, the day before VIP preview began. Sorces toldARTnewsthat read more

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    First Art Basel Qatar Closed with Institutional Acquisitions, Mid-Market Strength, and Measured Sales Momentum

  • Art Basel Qatar Opens with Slow Sales and Plenty of Promise

    Art Basel’s first edition in Doha opened this week with a noticeably different rhythm from the fair’s established outposts in Basel, Paris, Hong Kong, or Miami Beach. The Qatari fair’s format focused on fewer galleries, solo presentations, and a layout that encourages visitors to move slowly. The change was significant and widely praised on the read more

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    Art Basel Qatar Opens with Slow Sales and Plenty of Promise

  • $1 M. Jack Whitten Painting Leads Steady Sales at San Francisco’s FOG Design+Art

    At the FOG Design+Art, a San Francisco art fair set across two piers at the Fort Mason Center, the tone for opening night on Thursday was set by what takes place the event’s environs. There, one can find a slew of valet drivers in white dinner jackets; they’ve returned from picking up cars belonging to read more

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    M. Jack Whitten Painting Leads Steady Sales at San Francisco’s FOG Design+Art

  • Bonhams Posts $970 M. in 2025 Sales as It Tries to Turn the Page

    Bonhams ended 2025 with $970 million in global sales, a headline number that, in another year, might have been received as unambiguously good news. Instead, it arrives trailing a thicket of context: a widely circulatedFinancial Timesreporton a £213 million pre-tax loss, a change in ownership, and renewed scrutiny of how auction houses account for downturns read more

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    Bonhams Posts 0 M. in 2025 Sales as It Tries to Turn the Page

  • Donna raises $4.8M to cut admin work and unlock real insights from field sales teams

    Ghent-based Donna, a proactive AI assistant for field sales teams, has raised $4.8 million in new funding to accelerate international expansion and cement its position in field sales enablement. The round is led by Frontline Ventures, with participation from existing investors and a group of seasoned angel investors. Field sales teams across industries have long read more

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    Donna raises .8M to cut admin work and unlock real insights from field sales teams

  • Lot Watch: The 16(ish) Top Works Hitting the Block at the November Marquee Sales

    nnnnnnn ntPainted on Christmas Day in 1981, just after his 21st birthday,u00a0Crowns (Peso Neto)</em> was produced as Basquiat was vaulted from downtown prodigy to art-world phenomenon. This was the year Basquiat moved from the street into the studio, as well as the year critics and collectors began to grasp the range of his ambition. In read more

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    Lot Watch: The 16(ish) Top Works Hitting the Block at the November Marquee Sales