Belarusian project Kino-mo wins British start-up competition
Its authors will receive 150K pounds from the British billionaire Richard Branson.
Belarusians Kiryl Chykeyuk and Artsiom Stavenka with their start-up called Kino-mo have won the prestigious British start-up competition Pitch to Rich 2015, organized by the Virgin Group, owned by billionaire Richard Branson.
At the competition, they presented a 3D-projection screen for projecting three-dimensional images in the air. As a winning prize, the Kino-mo will get a marketing campaign in the amount of 150K pounds, dev.by reports.
Kiryl Chykeyuk (right) and Artsiom Stavenka
In 2008, after graduating from Belarusian universities, Kiryl Chykeyuk and Artsiom Stavenka moved to the UK to continue their studies. Initially, they were developing a digital projector, which used a bicycle wheel as a transparent display. In 2012, this idea got the team the victory in the prestigious TV show Dragon's Den, but the guys refused the 150K dollar investment so as not to transfer the 40% stake in the project to the investors. That same year, their technology got on the list of top 100 best innovative UK projects.
Photo: Andy Fishburn via Twitter, dev.by
