About Cohart

What is Cohart?

Cohart is the AI-powered operating system for the $65B art market. We provide 5M artists and 70K galleries with the modern infrastructure they need to run their businesses end-to-end — starting with payments — at a fraction of the cost of outdated legacy tools.

On the backend, our payments + sales-tax automation power the core workflows of the art economy. On the front end, Cohart becomes an AI-driven social database where artists, galleries, and collectors can showcase work, chat, buy, save, follow, and collaborate — combining the utility of Artlogic with the community and discovery of Instagram and Artsy in one place.

By embedding into the operational backbone of fairs and galleries, Cohart sits at the center of how the global art market transacts.

How It Works

Cohart functions as the art world’s operating system:

• Payments Infrastructure: Our POS automates sales tax filing for fairs and galleries — a major pain point — enabling frictionless transactions and clean, structured back-office data.

• AI-Powered Discovery: We leverage backend transaction data to drive front-end discovery, surfacing artists, galleries, and works the same way Zillow surfaces homes.

• End-to-End Business Tools: Artists and galleries manage inventory, payments, CRM, sales, community, and analytics all in one place.

• Marketplace-Powered Network Effects: As more fairs adopt Cohart’s POS, more exhibitors onboard — giving us high-intent acquisition and rapidly compounding data advantages.

Why Now / Why Us

The art market remains deeply fragmented, analog, and underserved by technology. With millions of creators moving online and Gen Z becoming the fastest-growing collector demographic, the market is undergoing a generational shift that requires modern infrastructure.

Cohart is positioned to become the category-defining OS of this transition.

Our Team

Cohart is a female-founded team with deep credibility in the art ecosystem and proven execution in audience and sales growth.

• Before Cohart, Kendall built viral art shows reaching 100K–200K+ audiences per show.

• Co-founder Shyevin spent 20 years as a gallerist, facilitating $300M+ in art sales.

• Together with our engineering team, we’re building the technology layer the art world has never had — the OS that powers the next era of discovery and commerce.