Pitch deck · teia.cafe Inc. · Pre-seed round
teia.cafe
Blockchain analytics for the art world.
The immutable ledger, translated for creatives – at prices they can afford.
Do Your Own Research, made possible.
Ryan Tanaka, CEO · Johannes Simon, CTO
♫ Recommended listening
The Lost Album for teia.cafe by stereohopper (TEIA Member)
The problem
The blockchain is public. But almost nobody can read it.
Artists
See their work copyminted and sold by strangers, but can’t read the ledger that would prove it, so the public record gives them little protection and few of its benefits.
Collectors
Buy into wash-traded or rugged projects with no way to see it coming, and no way to measure how a portfolio performs over time or against others.
The industry
Confusion breeds accusations, lawsuits and fraud: 38% of NFT trades on major marketplaces show wash trading¹, and four in five free mints were plagiarized, fake or spam², eroding trust in the industry as a whole.
The core issue: the ledger records everything, but reading it takes expertise almost nobody has. Without translation, the record holds no one accountable.
teia.cafe · ¹ Boston University / Research Policy, May 2026 · ² OpenSea, Jan 2022
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The solution
We turn immutable records into analytics people can use.
Trustworthy by design
Every finding links to the public ledger record behind it, so anyone can check it.
Explained, not dumped
Each number comes with why it matters, backed by research, in plain language.
Priced for creatives
Pay per report. No subscriptions or high fees.
Our edge: rare expertise, scaled by AI. A team that has spent five years on Tezos building decentralized systems from scratch, with expertise in art, data analysis, systems architecture and academic research. This unique blend of blockchain, AI, art and traditional methods is what lets our reports offer insights that no one else can replicate.
“comprador intellectuals didactically demarcating the boundaries of visionary insight” by scottxphotography (TEIA Core Team)
teia.cafe · DYOR, made possible.
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teia.cafe · DYOR, made possible.
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The product
One engine, five report types.
Five analytics tools; one tez per report. We provide a unique blend of blockchain data, AI analysis, and traditional research methods to bring research-grade reports to artists and creatives at low costs – presented in plain language for better understanding.
Portfolio
dashboard
Wash-trading
analysis
Token project
audit
Copyright
protection
Baker
inspector
Pick a voice:
“Paper Lanterns” is the vein to work
Sample report · The Mentor
What I see
Of nine drops, “Paper Lanterns” did best: 73% of its editions sold; a typical drop sold 63%.
Why it matters
Artists do their best work once they focus; what sold best is the clearest line you have.
Try this
Treat it as the start of a series: keep subject, medium and price, change just one thing.
How you’ll know
It’s working if the next piece sells more than 46% in its first month.
Liu et al. 2021 · Hsu 2006
Why now
The need for ledger-based data is rising.
73%
of institutions raising crypto allocations¹
Capital is moving on-chain
$87B into crypto ETPs since 2024²; tokenized assets heading past $2T by 2030, from $60B today³. For us: every newcomer needs the ledger explained in plain terms.
55%
of tokenized assets sit dormant and untracked⁴
Regulation now requires the ledger be read
GENIUS Act and MiCA arrived in 2025²; compliance analytics: $2.9B today, $14.6B by 2032⁵. For us: those tools serve compliance desks; we sell the same reading at $2.
60%
of AI projects fail without AI-ready data⁶
AI runs on validated, provenanced data
The EU AI Act requires training-data summaries⁷; licensed-data deals top $250M⁸. For us: ledgers are the cheapest proof of origin; copyright is what artists ask for first.
¹ EY/Coinbase · ² Grayscale, The Block · ³ ⁴ Forbes · ⁵ 360iResearch · ⁶ Gartner · ⁷ EU AI Act · ⁸ Troveo
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Our foundation
Five years in the Tezos art community.
The cards are TEIA’s numbers, not ours: the community-owned DAO that took over hic et nunc in 2022, which our founders helped build (since 2021; dollars at sale-day prices). teia.cafe Inc. is our own company.
880K
works minted
3.6M
sales on-chain
$62M
traded (14M XTZ)
5 yrs
online, no downtime
15+
features we shipped
2.6K
TEIA token holders
1–2K
daily active users
11K
radio visitors/month
60+
media interviews
$30K
raised for TEIA DAO
10 DAO-funded art events in 4 months, 3 continents. 10 more on the way.
g0v Summit, Taiwan #36
#VoicesOfIran, TezCon #34
#BYOBxTeia, Mexico City #31
#Art4LifeTez blood drive #33
Jewelry workshop, Beijing #37
Teia Women in Serbia #43
teia.cafe, our product: five tools on mainnet now, public launch Oct 1, 2026; month-one goal: 100 paid reports.
teia.cafe · DYOR, made possible.
Slides by malicioussheep (TEIA Moderation and Organizational Team)
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Market
Every transaction, multiple reports.
$250K
SOM: Q4 2027 run rate
$26M
Tezos: wallets¹ + 1/1 works¹
$140M
SAM: 2.1M NFT wallets³ × $68
$1B
TAM: ~500M reports a year × $2
Blockchain data allows for multiple reports to be generated per action, while still being validated and verifiable, indefinitely. (i.e. No more “data slop”)
Now
Tezos art, our start. 500K+ wallets¹ × $24 a year = $12M; a yearly $2 scan of 7.2M one-of-one works¹ = $14M.
Next
Every chain. 2.1M wallets trade 18M NFTs a quarter³, ~34 a year each: a $2 report per trade is $68 a year.
Later
The mainstream art market. 41.5M art sales⁴ and 268M new NFTs² a year; via our API, $14.6B of on-chain analytics by 2032⁵.
![failure_[success], by Merchant Coppola](img/art-failure-success.jpg)
¹ TzKT, Sep 2026 · ² CryptoSlam · ³ DappRadar · ⁴ Art Basel/UBS · ⁵ 360iResearch
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Business model
Pay per report: $0.35 now, $2 within a year.
Who pays
Artists and collectors first; marketplaces and platforms through the API (~$300 a month).
How much
1 tez at launch to earn trust, rising to $2 basic / $10 premium within a year (anchors below).
How often
Every mint, sale and transfer is a reason for a fresh report; demand is ongoing.
| Quarter | Basic report | Premium report | Reports / month | API clients | Revenue / month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q4 2026 | 1 tez (~$0.35) | — | first 100 | 0 | <$0.1K |
| Q1 2027 | 1 tez (~$0.35) | — | 100 → 1,000 | 0 | ~$0.3K |
| Q2 2027 | $1 | $5 | 2,000 | 0 | ~$3K |
| Q3 2027 | $2 | $10 | 4,000 | 2 | ~$12K |
| Q4 2027 | $2 | $10 | 6,000 | 5 | ~$21K |
Break-even by the end of Q3 2027, then profitable. Costs ≈ $13K a month: two founders at $75K (the whole engineering team, no hires) plus infrastructure. How those costs scale is on the next slide.
teia.cafe · Anchors: Verisart $1/cert · Dune $65–349/mo · Nansen $150–750/mo
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Team
Two founders who helped build the platform this data comes from.
Ryan Tanaka
CEO / COO · @ryangtanaka
- Founding member, TEIA DAO; raised $30K for its treasury; TezCon Seattle host
- Runs growth: radio.teia.cafe (11K monthly visitors), 60+ media interviews, events on 3 continents
- Composer; former PhD researcher in art history
- Active in crypto since 2013: Ethereum ICO participant, former owner of CryptoPunk 8973
Music: “Cloud of Abundance” ▶
teia.cafe/curations/5
Johannes Simon
CTO · @jorion
- Systems architect; smart contracts
- CTO and European lead, TEIA
- Wrote ~90% of teia.art updates since 2023
- Built 8scribo (2022); co-founder, Tesserart (2024)
- Tech Director, Escape Events Frankfurt 2016–19
In the art world
ratata gallery shows 2021–23; NFT booth, Positions Berlin Art Fair 2022–24; The Frame, Digital ArtMile, Art Basel 2024
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The ask
Raising $200K to prove the model on Tezos, then scale.
$200K
Post-money SAFE · valuations negotiable
Q1 2027
target close
12 months
of runway
Use of funds
Founders & development
75%
Infra, AI & APIs
10%
Events and outreach
15%
Roadmap
- Q1 2027: Google Lens and other image-ID APIs for copyright; 1,000 reports a month
- Q2 2027: market pricing, first API client
- Q3 2027: operating break-even (~$13K a month)
- Q4 2027: 6,000 reports a month; our own image model and a second chain scoped
Backed by: the TEIA community and the Tezos Foundation, past funders of our projects.
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