Editor’s note: ExitEvent and WRALTechWire are partnering to share more news about startups in the Triangle. Today, ExitEvent Editor Laura Baverman reports on Daylight Books.
HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. – If the founders of Daylight Books can pull off their latest feat in art industry innovation, then they’ll help dozens of emerging contemporary artists and photographers around the world add new fans and revenue streams for their work.
And they’ll help museums, galleries and upscale lifestyle brands embrace art in the digital world.
It might sound like an ambitious goal for a nonprofit gallery and art photography book publisher in downtown Hillsborough.
But founders Michael Itkoff and Taj Forer have spent the last decade making a name for Daylight among the most celebrated artists and photographers in the contemporary art world. They’ve raised investment for the new business—a multimedia art content platform called Daylight Digital—from Accel Partners partner and former Groupon President Rob Solomon, the San Francisco-based Alchemist Investment Fund and local angels Lee Buck and Peter Bourne.
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