Alexis Vitenas

TQ Ventures is an early-stage venture firm based in New York City and San Francisco, led by Schuster Tanger and Andrew Marks.  We manage $2 billion in assets and are currently investing out of our fourth fund. We’re industry-agnostic with a focus on backing exceptional founders building category-defining businesses. Since TQ’s founding in 2018, we’ve made more than 80 investments globally and built a reputation for using our exceptional network to make enterprise customer introductions that drive significant revenue growth.  We invest from first principles and build deep relationships with our founders based on trust and long-termism.

TQ Ventures is an early-stage venture firm based in New York City and San Francisco, led by Schuster Tanger and Andrew Marks.  We manage $2 billion in assets and are currently investing out of our fourth fund. We’re industry-agnostic with a focus on backing exceptional founders building category-defining businesses. Since TQ’s founding in 2018, we’ve made more than 80 investments globally and built a reputation for using our exceptional network to make enterprise customer introductions that drive significant revenue growth.  We invest from first principles and build deep relationships with our founders based on trust and long-termism.

Founded in 1766, Christie’s is a world-leading art and luxury business. Renowned and trusted for its expert live and online auctions, as well as its bespoke private sales, Christie’s offers a full portfolio of global services to its clients, including art appraisal, art financing, international real estate and education. Christie’s has a physical presence in 46 countries, throughout the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Asia Pacific, with flagship international sales hubs in New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris and Geneva. It also is the only international auction house authorized to hold sales in mainland China (Shanghai). Christie’s auctions span more than 80 art and luxury categories, at price points ranging from $200 to over $100 million. In recent years, Christie’s has achieved the world record price for an artwork at auction (Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvador Mundi, 2017), for a single collection sale (the Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller, 2018), and for a work by a living artist (Jeff Koons’ Rabbit, 2019). Christie’s Private Sales offers a seamless service for buying and selling art, jewellery and watches outside of the auction calendar, working exclusively with Christie’s specialists at a client’s individual pace. Recent innovations at Christie’s include the groundbreaking sale of the first NFT for a digital work of art ever offered at a major auction house (Beeple’s Everydays, March 2021), with the unprecedented acceptance of cryptocurrency as a means of payment. As an industry leader in digital innovation, Christie’s also continues to pioneer new technologies that are redefining the business of art, including the creation of viewing and bidding experiences that integrate augmented reality, global livestreaming, buy-now channels, and hybrid sales formats. Christie’s is dedicated to advancing responsible culture throughout its business and communities worldwide, including achieving sustainability through net zero carbon emissions by 2030.