NanoLumens

NanoLumens

LED display designer and manufacturer
Type	Private
Industry	LED displays
Founded	2006
Founder	Richard Cope
Headquarters	Norcross, Georgia, U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Richard Cope (CEO) Karen Robinson - EVP Sales & Marketing
Products	NanoSlim NanoCurve NanoWrap Studio Pro
Services	Digital signage design and manufacture
Number of employees	50-100
Website	www.nanolumens.com

NanoLumens Inc. is a private American corporation that designs and manufactures digital LED displays. Since its founding in 2006, the company has designed products that target the market gap between consumer flat panel displays and commercial outdoor LED billboards in indoor spaces. The company is best known for creating the world’s first large-format flexible display, the NanoFlex 112”;^[1] but now has a full product line of fixed, indoor LED displays in any size, shape, or curvature. The company is currently headquartered in Norcross, Georgia, a North Atlanta suburb.

History

NanoLumens was launched in 2006 by then and current CEO Richard ‘Rick’ Cope.^[2] NanoLumens now holds over 200 patents on the technology used in their displays.

The company raised more than $10 million from 2006-2009 from angel investors to fund their operations,^[3] and primarily targets the digital out-of-home (DOOH) market, with sales in the U.S. & Canada, and expansion in Europe, the Middle East, Australia, and South America.^[4]

NanoLumens relocated its headquarters at the beginning of 2012 to a new 32,000 square foot office center in the North Atlanta suburb of Norcross after being courted by the Gwinnett Chamber Economic Development Department and the Georgia Department of Economic Development to stay in the area.^[5] The new facility houses the largest digital display showroom in the US. 2012 also marked the company’s first full year of commercial production.

In 2013, NanoLumens released the Studio Pro series, a family of LED digital displays for broadcasters that eliminates moiré. In 2014, the NanoSlim Engage was released.

Awards and Recognition

NanoLumens has been recognized by leading digital signage and business entities:

• Winner: “Best New Generation Display Device, (non-LCD or Plasma)” DIGI Award by Digital Signage Magazine
• Winner: “Breakthrough Technology” at the American Technology Awards presented by the TechAmerica Foundation
• Winner: ”Technology Entrepreneur of the Year” at the Spirit of Endeavor awards presented by the Technology Association of Georgia
• Winner: “The Audience Choice Award” at the Venture Atlanta Conference
• Winner: “Best LED Product, NanoFlex 112″ at the Rental Staging Systems Award at InfoComm 2012
• Winner: “Terman Award” at the TechAmerica Foundation American Technology Awards
• Runner-up: “Consumer Electronics” category, the Technology Innovation Awards presented by the Wall Street Journal
• Featured in Entrepreneur magazine’s “25 New Tech Trends”
• Featured in Forbes magazine’s “America’s Most Promising Companies”
• Named a “Top 10 Innovative Technology Company” by the Technology Association of Georgia

Key Personnel

• Rick Cope, CEO
• Karen Robinson, Executive VP of Business Development
• Gary Feather, Executive VP of Operations
• Rick Bortles, VP of Global Sales
• David DaCosta, VP of EMEA
• Nathan Remmes, VP of Marketing and Business Development

Major Installations

São Paulo Metro Line 4 or Via Quatro

Heralded as the largest digital out-of-home project in the world, large format LED displays were installed on 11 lines of the São Paulo Metro Line, Brazil's newest and most advanced Subway line. ^[6][7]

Walter E. Washington Convention Center

A 7.5-foot tall by 23-foot wide, 6mm pixel pitch digital display was installed to inform the facility's 15.000 daily visitors.^[8]

Winstar World Casino

NanoLumens was contracted by Winstar World Casino to build and install a 4mm NanoWrap cylinder, measuring 6 feet in diameter and 5-feet tall, and a 6mm NanoSlim display that measures 20-inches tall and more than 205-feet long in Winstar’s 4000 ft. gaming center.^[9]

International Exposition Center, Cleveland, Ohio

NanoLumens installed 22 indoor LED displays, ranging from a 30- by 17-foot flat screen to eight- by eight-foot wrap screens, in Ohio's I-X Center. The installs were completed in time for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Fan Fest.^[10]

Seven Clans Casino, Warroad, Minnesota

Seven Clans Casino in Warroad, Minnesota installed NanoLumens NanoCurve and NanoWrap LED displays to inform guests and promote deals, contests and upcoming events. ^[11]

Product lines

NanoLumens produces digital display solutions targeting the Digital Out-of-Home (DOOH) Market for indoor installations. Displays range from 2.5mm to 10mm pixel pitches depending on the model and can be flat, curved, or cylindrical. Markets served include broadcast facilities, the conventions/hospitality industry, casinos, educational institutions, sports venues and retail stores.

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