Oliver Kharraz’s health tech startup has not only attracted hundreds of millions of dollars in investments but has become the largest provider of its kind. The venture, Zocdoc, has attracted funding from top-tier investors like Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Khosla Ventures, and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff.

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Alto Saxophone - Andrew Smith
Guitar - Roberto Faber Steyer
Piano - Felix Qian and Alicia Elsom

Murmur

The future has an orange background

#NotForSale - ART week 23 the Monday part 1

An event during the ART week 2023 in Basel @ #NotFor$ale Gallery.

Music selected and mix performance by Oliver K

The Future Has A Orange Background - Art Week 2023 The Monday part 2

real deep house

L'aventura opening live set by Oliver K 8/23

L'aventura opening live set by Oliver K 8/23

NYC BABY - Oliver K somewhere in NYC 10/1/23

NYC BABY - Oliver K somewhere in NYC

NF$

Attack, self-asserting statement or provocative attitude? - At a time when art is predominantly defined by its monetary magnitude, Not For $ale appears as a bold assertion or even affront. On two floors of a former machine factory in the center of Basel, entrepreneur and collector Thomas E. Merian has recently opened a generous exhibition and project space. In his presentation of art, he playfully flirts with the categories of "supply" and "demand" in order to counter market-bound mechanisms of value creation - and appreciation - in an insidious way.

With the capricious caper of a denied availability, Not For $ale seems to lure onto a false trail, only to then slyly display both unsellable and sellable items in an engaging mix of privately owned and freely available art works. The broad-based artistic program, which is meant to grow organically like a family, will present a vital alternation between younger and older generations, between lesser-known contemporary positions and established artists of historical magnitude - between more affordable and more expensive works.

Not For $ale does not want to assert itself so much as a commercial hub, but rather to position itself as a place of encounter, of exchange, of shared art experience. Innovative interventions take place in the basement space of the former factory hall, now known as la cave. Furthermore, the interaction with art is celebrated in casual gatherings in the apartment. In the spacious flat, a series of exhibitions was initiated on the occasion of Art Basel 2022 with "a. gesture," which was celebrated as a holistic event. The aim of this is to address art lovers with all their senses, to offer them an agreeable setting for viewing and dialog, to generate an awareness of quality in foregrounding the valorization of art based on its stimulating intellectual content, so that its status as a cultural asset beyond its seemingly predominant importance as a status symbol and luxury item is not neglected.

DJ since 1993
Headliner and pioneer in the local scene of Basel (Switzerland) during the past near 30 years. A well-known and preferred act in his home town. Oliver K. grew up with hip hop, funk, acidjazz and house, which influenced his current music style...His long lasting experience as well as his broad technical knowledge made of him a great artist behind the turntables. His view of music is absolutely not fixed in one direction, so he sees himself as a Musicon and not as a classic DJ who just does his own thing .

Alejandro Cremades is the founding partner at Panthera Advisors which as premier investment banking and financial consulting firm. The firm focuses on small to medium size companies that are looking for M&A advisory as well as support with fundraising efforts. 

Alejandro is a serial entrepreneur that most recently cofounded Onevest, one of the largest online communities of entrepreneurs. At the time of its acquisition, Onevest had close to 450,000 registered active members.

Prior to Onevest, Alejandro was an attorney at King & Spalding where he was involved in one of the largest investment arbitration cases in history with $113 billion at stake (Chevron vs. Ecuador). 

Alejandro guest lectures at NYU Stern School of Business and The Wharton Business School. Alejandro has been included in the Top 30 Under 30 lists of Vanity Fair, Entrepreneur Magazine, and GQ Magazine. Moreover, TechCrunch recently featured Alejandro as one of the expats that is shaping New York’s tech.

Alejandro has been involved with the JOBS Act since inception. He was invited to the White House and the US House of Representatives to provide his stands on the new regulatory changes.

Alejandro is a Forbes contributor as well as the author of the bestselling book The Art of Startup Fundraising. The book is published by John Wiley & Sons and includes a foreword by Barbara Corcoran.

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