going collaborations; ARRI and Teradek/
met with Pomfort and Apple about our on-
to personally try Drylab Viewer! We also
real enthusiasm the moment someone is able
other users: Initial polite interest turns to
Viewer. The pattern was the same as for
a great place for informal feedback on Drylab
the world's leading DITs in attendance. It was
invitation to the DIT-WIT party, with some of
Andreas was able to secure us an
indie market as bigger than their own.
interesting to note that they regarded the
most important competitors. It was
meeting was with PIX System, one of our
the business landscape. The most exciting
business, and getting an updated picture of
efficient way of meeting people in the
participants from film and TV. It's a very
hectic days in April. NAB gathers 100,000
convention (NAB) in Las Vegas for three
National Association of Broadcasters
NAB: Andreas and Audun travelled to the
attachment for a more detailed summary.
leading DITs, and Apple. See the separate
script supervisors' union), one of the world's
Cinematographers Guild, Local 871 (the
Sciences, the International
Screening Room · Signiant · Moods of Norway · Tapad · Team Downey
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Radiant Images ·
points, including meetings with Netflix, the
Pomfort ·
trip was very successful, with several high
Netflix ·
users, partners and potential customers. The
871 ·
Local
of the US in February and March, meeting
NBC ·
Los Angeles: Pontus and Audun did a tour
New York, St. Louis, San Francisco and
Cinematographers Guild ·
us earlier.
Google · IBM · Innovation Norway (NYC) · Innovation Norway (SF) · International
winning VFX supervisor Dave Stump joined
Dave Stump · DIT WIT · ERA NYC · Facebook · Fancy Film · FilmLight · Geo Labelle ·
with Prince. Navngen helped anonymize names in the process.]
PGA · Carlos Melcer · Chimney L.A. · Dado Valentic ·
contacts for our visit in Los Angeles. Oscar-
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AWS · Apple · Caitlin Burns,
yielded good results, including valuable
Europe with our existing system.
America, and the collaboration has already
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences · Alesha & Jamie Metzger · Amazon
an active member of the Producers Guild of
LA · LVV
accomplished producer based in New York,
3.0, while keeping momentum in
LA · L
NY · SF
Caitlin Burns joining us as a mentor. She's an
towards the US launch with Drylab
NY · SF
New mentor: We are honored to have
are now working eagerly and hard
meetings
interns will consider sticking around!
confirmation about our product. We
meetings
based on the Swift language. We hope our
spring that has given us a lot of
As you can see it has been a hectic
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research, as well as innovative architectures
spring, on machine learning and analysis
well in advance. We hope to see you there!
Vigdis Trondsen, Lea Blindheim, Kristine
invitation will be distributed to all owners
are working as part-time interns during
Suzanne Bolstad, Eivind Bergene, Turid Brun,
launch. Also, two computer science students
will be held on June 16th at 15:00. An
Drylab family: Unni Jacobsen, Torstein Jahr,
warmly welcome our new owners to the
(starting in March), preparing for the US
Annual General Meeting: Drylab's AGM
working on market research until mid-June
users before then.
New owners: We would especially like to
Oslo's Entrepreneurship Program, will be
working hard to get solid feedback from pilot
now finalized.
formalities associated with this process are
highly skilled interns from the University of
in Amsterdam in September, and we are
the International Broadcasters Convention
based in Łódź, the film capital of Poland. Two
the successful completion of milestones. All
organization with two permanent developers
total new capital is 5 MNOK, partly tied to
The launch of Drylab 3.0 will take place at
New team members: We've extended our
agreement with Filmlance International, the
with new developers on board.
Norway. Including the development
the US.
schedule. We expect the delay to decrease,
the 2.05 MNOK loan from Innovation
is around one month behind our original
successful. We raised 2.13 MNOK to match
Norway while beginning to focus more on
Development and launch: Development
New capital: The investment round was
3.0 is slightly delayed.
on a partnership to safeguard sales in
round that closed in January.
were mixed, and our planned beta version of
339 kNOK for all of 2016. We are working
first four months is 200 kNOK, compared to
feedback from many users about the show
mentors and (of course) the investment
the Cine Gear expo in L.A. this year, since
interesting updates on sales, development,
winning The King's Speech. Revenue for the
such as Gareth Unwin, producer of Oscar-
Cine Gear: We have decided not to attend
the American market, but there are also
big news is the beginnings of our launch in
customers in Norway, and high-profile users
meet other potential partners.
ourselves to make this one rather long. The
using us in France. We also have new
connections. We’re also setting aside time to
every two months hereafter, and permit
Canada. Lumiere Numeriques have started
It's a valuable chance to learn and make new
Factory Montreal is our first customer in
San Jose in June, despite not having applied.
happened. We promise to keep them coming
been a while since the last one, and a lot has
their World Wide Developers Conference in
proving value and willingness to pay. Film
Sales: Return customer rate is now 80%,
pleasantly surprised to be invited by Apple to
Welcome to our first newsletter of 2017! It's
you!
WWDC and Silicon Valley: We were very
for investors & friends · May 2017
Aanensen. We look forward to working with
Google and IBM about cloud computing.
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