Timour Kosters
Founder of Edge City
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder
2024 - Current
Co-Founder & Strategic Advisor
2022
A creative incubator by artists, designers, developers, filmmakers and strategists
Co-Founder & Strategic Advisor
2020
Impact is the digital destination for young people shaping the future. We create and share digestible and socially-impactful content to millions of young people each month, inspiring tangible action. Each month we reach 10M uniques, and garner 65M impressions. We've raised $300,000 for vital causes and organizations and garnered hundreds of thousands of petition signatures. instagram.com/impact
Investment Partner
2022 - 2023
Co-Founder & Advisor
2015 - 2022
OFFLINE is a strategy and creative studio. Currently working on blockchain projects exploring the intersection of art, new media, and tech. Past clients: Adidas, Alexander Wang, BMW, Sony Music, NYC Mayor's Office, Spotify
COO
2019 - 2021
At Kama we are building the sex, love and intimacy superbrand of the future. We see a unique opportunity to design a new culture for sexuality that is current, open and based on acceptance and individuality. We have raised over $5M from a diverse group of the world’s leading VC firms and angels, including AlleyCorp, Female Founders Fund, Raine Group, and Stride. More than a business, Kama is a social movement aimed at turning the biggest taboo into a positive conversation by building an engaged community of like-minded people.
Business Operations Manager / Chief of Staff
2018 - 2019
Worked directly with the CEO and executive team on various special projects and business processes. Areas of responsibility included: * Investor Relations * Internal communications * Strategic Projects * Company vision, mission, and culture Artsy’s mission is to make all the world’s art accessible to anyone with an Internet connection. We are the leading platform for discovering, buying, learning about, and collecting art, with a growing online collection of 350,000+ artworks by 50,000+ artists from leading art fairs, galleries, museums, and art institutions. We believe that together, art and technology can change the world.
Finance
2016 - 2018
Artsy’s mission is to make all the world’s art accessible to anyone with an Internet connection. We are the leading platform for discovering, buying, learning about, and collecting art, with a growing online collection of 350,000+ artworks by 50,000+ artists from leading art fairs, galleries, museums, and art institutions. We believe that together, art and technology can change the world.
Artsy is the largest online art marketplace with more than 1 million artworks by over 100,000 artists.
Raised $100,880,053.00 from Devang Thakkar, Joe Gebbia, Wendi Murdoch, Thrive Capital, Glassdoor, Shumway Capital, L Catterton, Avenir, iHeartMedia and Greg Maffei.
Co-Founder
2017 - 2018
NashHash was a platform for game-theory games with real incentives, built on the Ethereum blockchain. Crypto offers an unprecedented laboratory for experiments to glean insights into psychology and how economic actors make decisions when real incentives are at stake. These insights could then be taken into the real world when designing incentives mechanisms in tokenomic systems.
Investment Banking - Technology, Media & Telecom
2015 - 2016
Piper Jaffray Merchant Banking (PJMB) is a part of the asset management business of Piper Jaffray Companies
Private Equity
2014 - 2015
PinBridge will provide contract, contract to hire, and direct hire placement services.