For backers
CAVO is building two connected experiences for backers. The Network is intended to connect you with artists and culturally engaged people for conversation, perspective and opportunity. Through the separate Backing interface, eligible backers could assess an artist-led funding proposition and, under an individual agreement, receive the proportional participation in eligible revenue stated in its terms.
More than one reason to join
Meet artists and culturally engaged members because the work, the person or the conversation interests you. Share judgement, relationships and professional access. When you want defined revenue participation, move into the separate backing interface to consider an artist-led proposition.
The human reason to connect
A striking presence. A way of seeing you have never encountered. The energy of someone at the beginning of an extraordinary career. People are drawn to artists for many reasons: the work, their ambition, personal chemistry or simply a conversation about art. CAVO brings those encounters into a creative network where curiosity can grow into friendship, collaboration or patronage.
Connections develop through mutual interest. Artists choose whom they meet and what they share; financial participation is agreed separately.
What you can bring and gain
Backing is one part of the value. Relationships, knowledge and recognition give serious supporters additional reasons to participate in the network.
Economic capital
Help an artist put a defined career plan into motion. Through a future artist-specific agreement, eligible backers could share in the revenue pool offered, with payments linked to actual eligible earnings and the agreed terms.
Social capital
Build mutually chosen relationships with artists, curators and culturally engaged members, while using your own network to create useful opportunities.
Cultural capital
Encounter serious work early, exchange ideas with its makers and deepen your understanding of the practice while offering informed perspective.
Symbolic capital
Build a reputation for seeing and enabling serious talent early, with any acknowledgement shaped by the artist and the contribution made.
Economic capital · The backing interface
Your percentage of the backer pool matches your percentage of the artist's funding target. If you provide half of the target, you receive half of the percentage offered to backers. If you provide the whole target, you receive the whole offered percentage.
Proportional backing
A £25,000 contribution is 50% of a £50,000 target. It therefore receives 50% of the revenue percentage offered to backers.
In the £100 example, the full backer pool is £8. This contribution receives £4. A £10,000 contribution is 20% of the target and receives £1.60.
Try the arithmetic
Explore how a revenue split works by changing the figures. This calculator illustrates the arithmetic; actual payments depend on eligible earnings and the agreed terms, rather than the figures entered here.
Result for this example
This contribution funds 50% of the target.
Formula: eligible revenue × 80% × percentage offered by the artist × individual share of the funding target.
Across the two interfaces
Built on mutual choice
Why be a CAVO backer
Meet compelling people early. Exchange ideas with artists and other informed members. Help open doors. Build a reputation for recognising work before consensus forms. Where you choose to back a proposition, gain the proportional participation stated in the agreement. Connections grow through mutual interest; revenue participation follows actual eligible earnings.
