Art Review Site, Atokore Raises 4.5M Yen From Samurai Fund /Venture Now

Atokore, an operator of user-generated art review site, "Minna no Bijutsukan Atkore", revealed that it conducted an allocation of new shares of 4.5 million yen to Samurai Incubate Fund III.

Atokore was seed venture founded in this September. The founder, Mr. Narita started working for intellectual property database company, PatentBureau, while in Keio University and still is enrolled at the university. ...

Minna no Bijutsukan Atokore was released as alpha at November 10th. The service is a social service allowing users to share features, value, or amusingness  of art such as paintings or buildings. ...

Venture Now 11/14/2011 [jp]

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• It is an art version of Bukupe, book review sharing service, in which Samurai Incubate invests as well.
• http://atokore.com/