Augmented World Expo (archive) » Frozen Chili Studio

Włodek Laskowski

admin — Thu, 09 May 2013 14:56:04 +0000

Wlodek is like a Nomad: by day, he is a Partner with VC fund, and by night, he is an active Business Angel and entrepreneur – he is currently leading a great AR start-up called Frozen Chili Studio, whose flagship project creates a Tamagotchi-style AR mobile app, re-defining the famous classic and enabling the launch of an innovative AR platform.

Back in 1988 Wlodek never expected to be where he is today, when at 18 years old he escaped from communist Poland to England. Once there, with hard work and strong determination he graduated from the prestigious LSE, upon which he embarked on a successful investment banking career in London. After the City, he joined GE Capital, where as a member of the elite GLDP (Global Leadership Development Program), he worked on top assignments in the US and Europe. Upon leaving the corporate world, Wlodek became an entrepreneur: he co-founded a US-based high-tech start-up Bot Inc. (together with the retired Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet), and led its R&D unit (80+ employees) in Krakow, Poland. After the company was acquired by Ernst & Young Technologies, he established a small investment banking boutique working with both: top-notch European VCs, as well as entrepreneurs seeking exit. Few years ago, Wlodek co-founded a VC Fund (he called it Nomad of course!), where he is currently a Partner in charge of ICT investments. Although he went to the dark side (VC), he never ceased to be an entrepreneur at heart, and so he gets involved with start-ups as an active Business Angel.

Frozen Chili Studio

admin — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 06:34:31 +0000

We are a small start-up company, which is hard working according to the words: “DO MORE OF WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY”. We are geeks who love technology! Especially we find pleasure in inventing, building and implementing the Augmented Reality applications. We strongly believe that soon everything in our world will be Augmented and the surrounding reality will be full of a great implementation of Augmented Reality apps. Special place for our applications we find in marketing campaigns of our clients. We can augment quite everything to make clever and hilarious advertisement. Thanks to our apps we can display content: funny movies, songs, online shops on billboards, newspapers, magazines and even on the facade of the buildings. Furthermore we are planning to build Interactive Augmented Reality Platform (iOS and Andrioid) where users will be able to add their content also noncommercial. Companies will use the platform for advertising. We want to create unique space where smart marketing will meet creative people which will make our urban space more beautiful.

http://www.frozenchilistudio.com/

Kasia (Kate) Zulawinska

admin — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:38:52 +0000

Co-Founder of Frozen Chili Studio. Kate is a multilingual (English, Italian, French, Russian and Polish) whiz kid and a born leader. She lived and worked in Poland, Italy, Germany and Greece. She has an MA of International Relation with specialization of International Project Management. Her varied work experience ranges from senior project manager in the Game Development industry through sole responsibility for organizing International fair and congresses and most importantly she has worked in the Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union as a Liaison Officer (there were 85 highly qualified applicants per one place). This experience made her feel at ease with VIPs as well as to master the official diplomatic protocol. She is fascinated by the IT industry and the multitalented people working in it. With a sheer strength of her personality she pulled a team of IT geeks to create her dream company – and stands proudly at its leader. She pulls the team through difficult, bootstrapping stage thanks to her character and enthusiasm. But most of all, she is driven by passion for truly innovative use of AR which combines learning to play and breaks new ground in marketing, keeping it fun!