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Peter Kortenhoeven

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
65 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
656: How to Win VR Gaming Space, $500k Raised, Team of 12, First Release This Year with CEO Peter Kortenhoeven

As you probably hear, all our actors within this universe, or our main characters, end up with O, so Greco, Pillow, Octo.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
656: How to Win VR Gaming Space, $500k Raised, Team of 12, First Release This Year with CEO Peter Kortenhoeven

And...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
656: How to Win VR Gaming Space, $500k Raised, Team of 12, First Release This Year with CEO Peter Kortenhoeven

Yeah, we managed to do it with that particular game.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
656: How to Win VR Gaming Space, $500k Raised, Team of 12, First Release This Year with CEO Peter Kortenhoeven

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
656: How to Win VR Gaming Space, $500k Raised, Team of 12, First Release This Year with CEO Peter Kortenhoeven

Yeah, well, as each startup probably does, it will cost you a lot of money to start with, of course.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
656: How to Win VR Gaming Space, $500k Raised, Team of 12, First Release This Year with CEO Peter Kortenhoeven

So we had a seed funder, which is called Lumo Labs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
656: How to Win VR Gaming Space, $500k Raised, Team of 12, First Release This Year with CEO Peter Kortenhoeven

And Lumo Labs allowed us to continue developing the game because it started out as a...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
656: How to Win VR Gaming Space, $500k Raised, Team of 12, First Release This Year with CEO Peter Kortenhoeven

And then later on with some friends, it became a table kitchen project.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
656: How to Win VR Gaming Space, $500k Raised, Team of 12, First Release This Year with CEO Peter Kortenhoeven

Later on, I met the guys of Manus VR, which is a company who develops VR gloves, which enables you to see your hands within virtual reality.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
656: How to Win VR Gaming Space, $500k Raised, Team of 12, First Release This Year with CEO Peter Kortenhoeven

They wanted to see your hands moving around with a proper demo and I had this concept which I wanted to have hands.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
656: How to Win VR Gaming Space, $500k Raised, Team of 12, First Release This Year with CEO Peter Kortenhoeven

So eventually that turned out to be a demo which we showcased at the GDC and from that moment we founded the company and Lumo came by.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
656: How to Win VR Gaming Space, $500k Raised, Team of 12, First Release This Year with CEO Peter Kortenhoeven

They already assisted me a lot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
656: How to Win VR Gaming Space, $500k Raised, Team of 12, First Release This Year with CEO Peter Kortenhoeven

They gave me some seed money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
656: How to Win VR Gaming Space, $500k Raised, Team of 12, First Release This Year with CEO Peter Kortenhoeven

We're going to charge for these games.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
656: How to Win VR Gaming Space, $500k Raised, Team of 12, First Release This Year with CEO Peter Kortenhoeven

We want to create high-end content.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
656: How to Win VR Gaming Space, $500k Raised, Team of 12, First Release This Year with CEO Peter Kortenhoeven

We start with mobile because personally I think there is a lack on high-quality content for that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
656: How to Win VR Gaming Space, $500k Raised, Team of 12, First Release This Year with CEO Peter Kortenhoeven

For what?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
656: How to Win VR Gaming Space, $500k Raised, Team of 12, First Release This Year with CEO Peter Kortenhoeven

To continue...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
656: How to Win VR Gaming Space, $500k Raised, Team of 12, First Release This Year with CEO Peter Kortenhoeven

For mobile VR.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
656: How to Win VR Gaming Space, $500k Raised, Team of 12, First Release This Year with CEO Peter Kortenhoeven

Got it.