We’re proud to share that Noro was named one of the Top 5 Most Investable Startups presenting at Kinect Capital’s 43rd annual Investors Choice Conference in Utah, one of Utah’s longest-running and most highly curated gatherings of startups and investors.
26 startups were selected to pitch an audience of more than 200 other founders, VCs, angels, and family offices. The presenting startups were then independently evaluated by Utah Money Watch, and Noro was ranked among the five most investable startups at the conference.
Noro received a score of 37/40, tying for third overall.
In his assessment, Utah Money Watch's David Politis described the problem Noro is tackling as:
“Making people in different places actually feel as though they are working together.”
He went on to call Noro “a brilliant concept made real. Bravo!”
That recognition means a lot to us because it speaks to the larger problem we’re working to solve.
Work has become increasingly distributed, but the tools we use to connect people across distance still struggle to recreate the trust, energy, body language, and natural interaction of sharing a physical space. Noro is building a new kind of workplace infrastructure around life-size, full-body presence, connecting offices and teams so people can work together more naturally without needing to be in the same place.
Our longer-term vision goes beyond better video conferencing. We believe the future of work will be built around connected spaces that bring together human presence, shared knowledge, and intelligence.
We’re grateful to Kinect Capital, the Investors Choice community, and David Politis for the recognition, and excited about what comes next.