The people
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On the TechVancouver stage
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About
Lumen5 takes a piece of writing and builds a video from it: it picks out the beats, matches stock footage and music, and lays out the scenes, so a marketing team can publish video without a video team. Michael Cheng, Christopher Bowal and Nigel Gutzmann started it in Vancouver in 2015; Cheng had earlier co-founded the link tool Sniply. The company won the top prize at the 2019 New Ventures BC competition and says it has passed four million users. Cheng took the TechVancouver stage in May 2018 to argue that 'listen to your customers' is advice that works right up until it doesn't.
Backers
No institutional venture round is publicly documented; press describes the company as largely bootstrapped. It won the $105,000 first prize package at the 2019 New Ventures BC competition.
Quick answers
What does Lumen5 do?
Turns written content into short video. You give it an article or a script and it storyboards and edits a video around it.
Where is Lumen5 based?
Vancouver. It won the 2019 New Ventures BC competition, a British Columbia startup award.
Which stage did Lumen5 speak on?
TechVancouver, in May 2018 — not TechTO. Both stages are in the same archive.