NanoLumens® Completes $13.3-Million Round of New Financing

NanoLumens®, the world’s leader for visualization solutions in any size, shape or curvature, today announced it has secured $13.3-million in new financing from an offering of debt and securities. Euro Pacific Canada Inc. (www.europac.ca) served as the exclusive agent for the offering.  The $5-million debt component of the financing was provided by Wellington Financial LP (www.wellingtonfund.com). 

According to NanoLumens CEO Rick Cope, the new round of funding will be used to accelerate the company’s strategic business and technology development programs. “The next chapter for our global strategy is about to unfold” he said today.  “Working closely with leading global companies, NanoLumens is expanding its visualization platform to incorporate nearly limitless opportunities that join together large-format visualization solutions with native apps, professional services and mobile tech platforms.  Our end result will be an interactive universe of display solutions that not only engage customers, but also simultaneously deliver information and compel commerce.

“What’s more,” Cope continued, “we are going to do this with technology that was born in Canada, is manufactured in America, and is shipping to customers around the world.”

According to Euro Pacific Canada Managing Director Adam Adamou, “Euro Pacific -is committed to repopulating the Canadian public markets with the very best young technology companies in the world.  NanoLumens is a pre-eminent leader in the emerging market of providing customer specific visualization solutions that help marketers to better engage with their customers wherever those customers happen to be.” 

“We are excited to partner with this dynamic tech visionary.  NanoLumens stands at the forefront of creating the future of customer engagement through visualization solutions that can be designed, engineered and manufactured in any shape, size or curvature that clients require.  With an impressive list of customers and tremendous growth over the last three years, NanoLumens is a perfect fit for our growth capital,” said Mark McQueen, President & CEO of Wellington Financial.

NanoLumens’ current clients include a broad range of marketers covering the fields of broadcast, casinos, control rooms, convention centers, DOOH, higher education, hospitality, retail, stadiums, and transportation including AIG, Bally’s, CBS Outdoor, CCTV, CNN, Charles Schwab, Coca Cola, Delta Airlines, Estee Lauder, ESPN, GTE Financial, Holt-Renfrew, Invesco, Macy’s, Nike, Terra, Turner, Universal Studios Florida, Uniqlo, and the new World Trade Center Freedom Tower, among many others. 

NanoLumens Steps Up To Help Gary Sinise Foundation Equip Local Georgia Wounded Warrior's New Home

If there’s one thing that NanoLumens CEO Rick Cope values more than anything else, it is service.  Before he became a hard-charging successful tech industry CEO, Cope served for more than 20 years as an officer in the United States Marine Corps in a career that concluded with him serving as Special Operations Advisor to General Norman Schwarzkopf during the Desert Storm campaign in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq. 

So, it should come as no surprise that, when he heard about the Gary Sinise Foundation’s efforts to build a home in Columbus, Georgia for wounded warrior Mike Schlitz, he knew he had to do something about it.  “I was approached by Joel Berrettini of IT and Media Solutions to see if I could help open up some doors at the major hardware manufacturers we work with,” Cope explained.  “I knew I had to do something because the new home wouldn’t be complete without some HD television displays.” 

NanoLumens donated three LED HD displays for Mike Schlitz’s new home, which was formally dedicated on October 31st. 

“I can’t thank Rick Cope and NanoLumens enough for helping to complete this very important project,” said Berrettini.  “All of us, as Americans, have an obligation to help give something back to the men and women of our Armed Forces who have sacrificed so much to ensure our freedom and way of life.  I know that everyone at the Gary Sinise Foundation appreciates what NanoLumens did.  They stepped up when we needed their help the most.”

NanoLumens' CEO Rick Cope to Speak at Display Week 2014

NanoLumens, the world’s leading manufacturer and designer of indoor LED displays, today announced that its President & CEO, Rick Cope, will be taking center stage at Display Week 2014 in San Diego, California (June 1-6, 2014) where he will make two keynote presentations.  The annual exposition and investor conference will take place at the San Diego Convention Center. 

On June 3, 2014 Cope will speak to attendees of the investor conference on the subject of Advances in Large Area Displays from 1:40PM to 2:30PM. Then on June 5, 2014, Cope will speak at the business conference on the subject of Large Area Flexible Displays.  Information about Display Week 2014 can be found at www.displayweek.org. 

“Our unique ability to enable customers to engage customers in unprecedented new ways is resonating throughout the world of digital signage,” Cope said today.  “No longer is technology standing in the way of imagination.  Customers can realize their greatest marketing dreams by designing and installing flexible displays in literally any size or shape they desire.  My intention at this upcoming conference is to provide attendees with a broad overview of the recent advances in the technology and the applications of flexible displays."

Display Week is the premier worldwide event showcasing advances in electronic display technology. Electronic displays by themselves make up a 100 billion dollar industry, and more importantly serve as the manner in which a majority of consumer electronics companies differentiate themselves. The Display Week Exhibition provides a venue where display technology and product providers can meet with the engineers, designers, and business development decision makers driving the integration of new display technology into products. History has shown that the display innovations that first appear at Display Week are integrated into leading products within months to a few years. 

Cope’s appearance at Display Week 2014 comes at a time when the company is experiencing unprecedented growth in sales in the retail, transportation, DOOH, hospitality, and casino channels.  Pacing NanoLumens’s year of record-shattering growth are major new sales to MAC Cosmetics, Uniqlo, Charles Schwabb, the Chicago Board of Trade, Terra DOOH, Cleveland’s massive I-X Center, WinStar Casino, Northern Lights Casino, Aerospace, and Delta Airlines Flight Museum, among many others.