Masterworks.io vs Stamplay

Invest in the world’s most valuable paintings.

For the first time ever, Masterworks.io is allowing investors to buy and
trade shares in great works of art.

Blue-chip fine art has been a superior risk-adjusted asset class for decades, outperforming the S&P 500 by 250% since the year 2000 with low degrees of volatility. However, these great works of art generally cost more than $2 million per painting, making them available only to the ultra- wealthy.

Masterworks takes balance sheet risk to purchase great works of art by collaborating with Christies, Sothebys, and Phillips. After purchasing a painting, we place it in an LLC and file it with the SEC to go public. This allows institutions, accredited and non-accredited investors to purchase shares of multi-million dollar, investment grade artwork.

Through the development of a trading platform that we plan to release in 2019, investors will be able to buy and trade shares in works of art just as they would with companies on the stock market.

Location: New York, United States

IFTTT meets Heroku

Uber isn’t just Uber. It’s Google Maps, Braintree payments, Twilio texts and much more. The best way to do business isn’t to build it all in-house. Top companies are increasingly piecing together a composite of specialized APIs. That lets them concentrate on their unique value-add rather than reinventing the wheel and dedicating 100% of your efforts to what will make you successful.

Stamplay is a cloud service that abstracts away all of the painful stuff that we really shouldn’t have to think about, empowering developers to code only what matters most. It’s like IFTTT and Heroku had a child. Stamplay brings together powerful components and services API in a way that you just need to define rules like: when a user signs up with Facebook, send him a welcome email and add him on my newsletter” or if a user fills this form, charge him 25$ with stripe or paypal”. We let you build rome in a day.