From Flying Start to Exciting Growth: Richard Mairs Update

When Richard Mairs first shared his If we can, you can story a year ago, it was also a bit of a fond farewell to this side of the pond as he had just been awarded a place on the prestigious NCGE Kauffman Scholarship as a ‘Flying Start Global Entrepreneur”. It included training with NESTA here in the UK, before heading to America for 6 months to study at Harvard, Stanford and MIT, and visit innovative companies such as Google, Cisco and Adobe. We asked Richard if he would mind keeping in touch and letting us know how he got on.

And keep in touch he did. We received a great email from Richard once he returned from his adventures and things certainly have moved on from the last time we spoke.

Before jetting away, Richard was running Gizmo Visual Studios in Middlesbrough, a multimedia studio and consultancy all about inspiring creativity. Richard set out to do this by combining cutting edge technology and visual media to both inspire and educate people about the creative thinking process.

During Richard’s time in America, he met his new business partner, Jonathan Lloyd, a fellow Global Scholar. They decided to combine forces and are together now running Falling Pixel Ltd (http://www.fallingpixel.com/). Falling Pixel is a high quality 3D asset marketplace and proudly sits as the leading marketplace in Europe.

They supply their services to a range of industries that demand high quality content from architectural visualisation to interactive education and even military simulation.

Richard says, “Supplying these resources saves companies time in the development process, development costs and allows smaller companies to actively compete on a higher level, enabling them to create bigger and better projects through outsource of content .”

At the moment Richard and Jonathan are both working hard to continue to growth of both the marketplace and newer arms such as 3D Request ™ and FPLabs which they will be working on in the coming months. Labs focuses on research and development of new technology in areas such as augmented reality, real time rendering and stereoscopics. They are also looking to work with Universities and strategic partnerships to strengthen their offering.

Richard commented, “It’s still early days having only been trading three years but we are excited about the future and the new direction of the company.”