Kitemill with 2019 status and plans for 2020 on Youtube
The latest news on the company's development is now on Youtube. Check out this movie from "Game Changers - Norwegian investor summit 2019", where Kitemill's CEO Thomas Hårklau gives a brief update on the company's development.
The link to the video: https://youtu.be/F1OBkPiSVmQ
In this film, Hårklau gives the status of how far Kitemill has progressed in 2019, and that he looks into 2020 and the plans for the commercialization of the company. In addition, he opened up that the company is ready to receive several new large owners, to ensure this commercialization.
Game Changers is the major international investor summit Acceler8. It was held at Bergen Media Center in the fall of 2019. Kitemill received a lot of attention.
A large number of large investors were present to meet the many technology companies presenting themselves and their products. Among the investor communities and state-owned policy instruments with large delegations were BKK Spring, Horizons Ventures, Argentum, DNB, Innovation Norway, NCE Finance Innovation, Bergen Municipality and Oslo Business Region, just to name a few.
At the investor gathering at Bergen Media Center, Kitemill's stand was also visited by Innovation Norway among others. Senior adviser Ingvild Kjørrefjord and innovation advisor Torunn Stangervåg have both followed Kitemill for a long time.
- In 2015, we started a targeted effort to raise Kitemill to a higher level, where the goal was to obtain international support. We have now achieved this after four years of hard work, Ingvild Kjørrefjord said when Kitemill received an EU grant of NOK 24 million earlier this fall, as the first company in Hordaland.
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