Callisto Investor Deck · 2026
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AI career platform for artists
Callisto
Find every opportunity an artist deserves.
3,625+
Artists
12,400+
Opportunities
800+
Institutions
60+
Countries
01
Problem

Searching for opportunities manually is exhausting — and costs artists years of their career

15.5
hrs / week
on admin & the search for opportunities
10–0
hours
on a single application
0%
accepted
Guggenheim & peers
Result: missed deadlines, burnout, stalled careers.
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Solution

The artists who can afford it hire an agent.
Everyone else does it alone.

01 · finds The right calls 12,400+ open opportunities, matched to the work
02 · writes The applications Drafted from the artist’s own CV
03 · tracks Every submission Followed through to the result

Callisto is that agent — for every artist,
not just the few.

03
Traction

Artists are showing up — and they stay.

0
sign-ups
V0 bot (1,500) + V1 app (2,125)
+0
new users
in the last 60 days
0%
stickiness
2.5× the 15–25% benchmark
$0
CAC
100% organic — no ad spend
04
Traction · In artists’ words
“
4× Application velocity
This is already my main tool. I used to apply once a month at best — now it’s a couple of applications a week.
Jæn
Jæn @jaendotart
5,298 followers · Saatchi · Disney · Diesel · PayPal
Exhibitions landed
“Callisto helped me land 3 international exhibitions this year — incredible project.”
Astrowur//d
Astrowur//d @AstroWurlddd
6,667 followers
Organic referral
“The tool is so good I share it with my community. I appreciate where your heart is.”
Uh!Caribe
Uh!Caribe @uhCaribe
36.5K followers · Pepsi · Coachella · The Tonight Show
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What we do
We turn chaos
into infrastructure.
Four layers. One platform — the career stack for visual artists.
L1
Aggregate Supply
Every grant, residency & open call worldwide, in one feed.
L2
Personalize Intelligence
Scored & ranked to each artist's profile and fit.
L3
Apply & Manage Workflow
Drafts, submissions & deadlines — tracked end to end.
L4
Create Owned supply
Callisto launches its own residencies, grants & collaborations — supply no one else can list.
ResidenciesGrantsOpen CallsCommissionsAwardsFellowshipsExhibitionsCuratorialPublic ArtStudio ProgramsTravel GrantsBiennialsPrizes
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How it works

One platform.
Full pipeline.

Five steps, one continuous motion — and it never ends on step five. Every week Callisto sends the artist back to discovery for the next opportunity, for their whole career.

38.8%
Weekly stickiness
The artist's
weekly operating loop
2.5× retention
vs. benchmark
01
Profile
A 2-minute setup grows into a living artist CV the whole loop runs on.
set once, feeds everything
02
Discovery
Fresh grants, residencies & open calls from 12,400+ enriched.
new calls every day
03
Evaluation
AI Fit Score 0–100 ranks every new call against the CV.
scored each visit
04
Draft
AI writes the application straight from the CV, per call.
a draft per application
05
Tracking
Deadlines & statuses — the reason they keep coming back.
checked all week → loop repeats
07
Discover

Every grant, residency & open call in one place.

One feed, refreshed every six hours. Filter by medium, deadline, funding, region or eligibility — and only ever see calls you can actually apply to.

Award Marcel Duchamp Prize
Fellowship DAAD · Berlin
Residency Rijksakademie
Grant Pollock-Krasner · $30K
Open Call Manifesta 16
Fellowship Villa Medici, Rome
Prize Hepworth · £30,000
Commission Serpentine
Residency Skowhegan
Callisto discovery feed
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AI Fit Score

Scored for your practice — not everyone's.

Every opportunity gets a 0-to-100 match against your profile, with the reasoning shown line by line. Only the calls that fit your medium, geography, career stage and language.

Your Fit0/100
AI Fit Score breakdown
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Apply & Manage

Draft, polish, and track — to result.

CV Builder
CV Builder
A complete artist CV — sharper matches.
AI Drafts
AI Drafts
Tailored first draft from your CV — in your own voice.
Tracker
Tracker
Every application from sent to result.
Result
Every outcome lands here — and stays.
27 Applied
4 Won
3 Pending
17%
Acceptance rate
the shape of one artist's arc.
3.8h saved per application
Outcome data who applied, who won — Callisto becomes the artist's professional memory.
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Why we win
Web 1.0 catalogs vs. an AI-native solution
ArtRabbit ResArtis Café Callisto
AI matching———Yes
Data enrichmentBasic tags——76%+
Personalized feed———Yes
Opportunity coverageLarge events DBResidencies onlyCalls onlyAll categories
CurationSome curation——AI + editorial
Mobile-firstWeb only——Telegram / iOS / Android
Free to applyYesYes$25–35Yes
Modern UXOKOutdatedOutdatedNative
Our moat

A proprietary dataset of 12,400+ opportunities at 76%+ enrichment, matched against 3,625 artist profiles — a matching model that compounds with every user. A Web 1.0 catalog can bolt on an LLM in a weekend; it can’t replicate the enriched supply + demand-side data flywheel.

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Why Now

The window is open.

Two AI shifts, one moment — and only for a moment.

Force 01 ↘

AI crossed the cost line

Reading an artist’s practice and matching it across thousands of messy listings was a lab demo two years ago. Now it runs cheaply and reliably — one founder enriches 12,400+ opportunities and scores 3,625 profiles on ~$100/mo.

New category, not an improvement.
NOW
↗ Force 02

Human work became the premium

As AI floods every feed with synthetic images, the scarce, rising-value asset is verified human practice — the kind only residencies, grants and institutional open calls can certify. More people enter the field, and every serious one now has to prove they’re human, in front of institutions.

3,625 artists · 38.8% weekly active — demand already pulling, not pushed.
Two years ago Impossible Now Open Soon Crowded
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Market Size
$25B+ flows to artists every year — fragmented across six categories, with no single platform.
One platform
$10B+
Grants
Distributed annually
2,000+
Residencies
Programs worldwide
Institutional
Fellowships
Academic & institutional
Prizes
Competitions
Prizes & awards
Open calls
Exhibitions
Biennials & open calls
Public
Commissions
Public & private sector
55M
Total addressable Artists worldwide
11M
High-intent Apply 3–5× / year
$3.5B+
US only Arts foundation funding
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Go-to-Market

Artists bring artists.

Callisto is useful enough that artists pass it to their communities — and richer supply pulls in more. We’ve reached 3,625 artists on ~$0 paid acquisition.

01 · Community-led Shared, not sold Artists pass Callisto to their communities. “I share it with my community.” — @uhCaribe
02 · Supply flywheel Supply pulls in more Richer supply pulls in more artists, who attract more institutions.
03 · Capital-efficient Proven without spend Organic pull before a dollar of paid — and built to scale.
3,625 artists  ·  ~$100/mo run  ·  $0 paid — to date
We grew without spending — that’s the proof. Capital scales it: deeper product & supply, plus the paid and partnership channels we’re ready to turn on.
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Quality

They don’t just sign up — they engage, and they pay.

0
‘Apply’ clicks
in-app intent to apply
0%
completed onboarding
of new sign-ups
0%
view → save
browse-to-shortlist
0
paid subscribers
early, unprompted
Measured on the active app cohort — 2,125 users.
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Business Model

Land free. Convert intent. Monetize the base. Own the supply.

Acquire · Free Discovery is the funnel AI opportunity discovery, a weekly digest, and 3 Fit Scores a month — free. Artists hit the paywall the moment they want deeper judgment.
Engine 01 · B2C — consumer proven $8/mo · $60/yr · 3-day trial
33 artists already pay — unprompted, on a thin paywall.
~$210 MRR of validated willingness-to-pay.
$8/mo — less than a single application fee.
Value deepens every phase — more analytics & career tools as the base grows.
Engine 02 · B2B — institutions validated The base is the product Institutions pay to reach the artist base. First promoted listing already sold for $200.
The data moat is the two-sided loop.
Own · Originals · upside Asset-light & already happening: a $5,000 brand-funded open call exclusive to Callisto users, plus founder-run residencies — upside beyond the base model.
Two engines — B2C + B2B → $1.07M ARR at M36
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Founder

Kirill Pobedin

Runs both sides of this market — and built the product solo.

Kirill Pobedin
Founder
Art world · operator & network
  • The Frame Society — global collective, hundreds mentored, $250K+ in sales
  • Bali Art Residency — 650+ international applications · 2 documentaries
  • Exhibitions in NYC · Paris · Milan · Bali · Belgium
  • Partners SuperRare, galleries · speaker NFT Paris/NYC · network across 25+ countries
Technical · built what a funded team builds — solo
  • Shipped a full AI-native product alone — enrichment pipeline, semantic matching, AI drafting, the whole app stack (React + FastAPI)
  • The moat is his code: an AI pipeline that structured 12,400+ unstructured listings into matchable data + a transparent fit-score across 27 genres · 8 regions · 7 factors — rule-based, not a black box
  • Production at scale — 50 parsers · Claude API · async Python · Docker · automated deploys
  • ~$100/mo to run — a fundable AI product on a hobby budget
Why me

“I run a grant program myself — I know the pain from both sides: the artist searching for opportunities, and the residency drowning in unqualified applications. Callisto solves both.”

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Creative Director

Nikita Replyanski

Reach and brand credibility across the art & creator world.

Nikita Replyanski
Creative Director
Art & brand · creator powerhouse
  • Phygital artist, 12+ yrs — personal brand with 250M+ views
  • R66 Space — Web3 brand: 100+ drops, $700K+ in sales, world’s first adidas NFT
  • Collabs: adidas · Adobe · Grimes · Asics · G-Shock · Nicola Formichetti · Novaya Tretyakovka
Industry & business
  • Co-founder & designer at Motorica — Russia’s largest prosthetics company (2013–19)
  • 11 years in game dev — Microsoft · Wargaming · Gearbox · Fox3d · 5518
Advisors
VK
Vasiliy Khlebnikov Strategy & Investment
Co-founded Motorica — $4M+ raised, scaled to 12 countries · Rizzoma (300K+ users) · EU · Middle East · India expansion.
LB
Lidiya Borisenko Finance
Fractional COO / Head of Product, 10+ yrs in FinTech · financial models for startups incl. Berkeley SKYDECK · SPB Exchange, Alfa Bank.
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Financial Model
User Growth
Cumulative registered users · 36-month projection
103K
Users at M36
0 22K 44K 66K 88K 110K M1 M6 M12 M18 M24 M30 M36 PRE-SEED BREAKEVEN SEED 2.8K 19.1K 48.1K 103K
Cumulative registered users
279
Paying · M12
948
Paying · M24
2,170
Paying · M36
2.1%
Conversion rate
Profitable by month 102.5× weekly stickiness38.8% retention$364 MRRB2C + B2B revenue$1.07M ARR by Year 33.0×–8.9× returnRevenue-funded
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Financial Model
3-year projection
Built on actual cohort data · 2,125 users · 33 paying · $364 MRR — B2C subscriptions + B2B services
$89.4K
MRR at M36 · $1.07M ARR
$0 $19K $38K $57K $76K $95K M1 M6 M12 M18 M24 M30 M36 BREAKEVEN SEED $328 $8.6K $36K $89.4K
Total MRR
B2C subscriptions
B2B services
$103K
ARR · Y1
$432K
ARR · Y2
$1.07M
ARR · Y3
$357
LTV
Month 10
EBITDA positive
The Ask

We survive without this round.
We don’t win without it.

Profitable by month 10 — the category gets decided in the next ~18 months, and $60K is the speed to own it.
EBITDA-positive · M10 100% of capital → growth · 0% → survival $36K floor — your downside covered
Projected return on this round
0.0×
3.0× – 8.9×
Timing capital, not survival — $60K pulls Seed-readiness two quarters forward into a $1.7M–$5M round: a 3.4×–10× markup on your entry.
Term Sheet
Callisto · Angel Round
RoundAngel
Raise$60K
InstrumentSAFE
Cap$500K
Equity~10.7%
Return3.0× – 8.9×
MilestoneSeed · M15
Use of funds
Product60%
Growth & partnerships25%
Runway reserve15%
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The starving artist is a data problem.
Solve the data, and no artist starves.
$60K Angel round·$500K cap·profitable by month 10·3.0×–8.9× return
Join the round.
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Callisto
Investor pitch · best on desktop

Talent was never the bottleneck. Access was.

Callisto is the AI career studio that turns every grant, residency & open call into one place — matched, drafted & tracked to a result. And it’s already a working business.

3,625artists · ~$0 CAC
38.8%weekly · 2.5× benchmark
$1.07MARR path · profitable M10

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