# Kiryl Chykeyuk

> Kiryl Chykeyuk is the Belarus-born founder and CEO of HYPERVSN, a display technology company backed by Mark Cuban and Richard Branson. An Oxford engineering PhD, he developed the business with childhood friend Art Stavenka, moving from LED bicycle-wheel advertising to displays that make digital objects appear to float in the air. His work now spans retail media, live venues and conversational digital humans.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at HYPERVSN
- **Organizations:** HYPERVSN, Kino-mo Ltd
- **Nationality:** British
- **Education:** PhD in Engineering Science, University of Oxford
- **Known for:** Co-founded HYPERVSN and led its development from bicycle-wheel displays to modular holographic visual systems., Won the startup category of the 2015 Pitch to Rich competition with Kino-mo., Secured backing from Mark Cuban and Richard Branson.

## Career timeline

- **2011** — Kino-mo founded with Art Stavenka; this is the foundation date on the current company history.
- **2012** — Appeared with Stavenka on BBC Dragons’ Den pitching a bicycle-wheel advertising display; declined investment offers.
- **2014** — HYPERVSN’s tenth-anniversary account dates its initial CES presentation to this year.
- **2015** — Kino-mo won the startup category of Pitch to Rich; a Founders Forum encounter began the Flex manufacturing relationship.
- **2017** — HYPERVSN commercial launch at CES; Flex completed production onboarding by June.
- **2022** — Presented the SmartV platform and introduced a conversational Digital Avatar solution.
- **2023** — HYPERVSN installed a modular display wall in the Sphere atrium in Las Vegas.
- **2026** — Shared details of a 24-store T-Mobile rollout and an AWS retail collaboration.

## Achievements

- Co-founded HYPERVSN and led its development from bicycle-wheel displays to modular holographic visual systems.
- Won the startup category of the 2015 Pitch to Rich competition with Kino-mo.
- Secured backing from Mark Cuban and Richard Branson.
- Built a manufacturing relationship with Flex in Cork, Ireland.
- HYPERVSN supplied the 420-unit display wall in the Sphere atrium.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — HYPERVSN published its Miami International Airport case study, describing holographic digital humans within the airport’s multilingual virtual-assistant service.
- **2026-03** — Retail Technology Innovation Hub covered a Waterloo Formula 1 activation using HYPERVSN technology.
- **2026-01** — Chykeyuk announced HYPERVSN’s AWS collaboration at NRF and described the T-Mobile retail-media rollout.

## Links

- Website: https://hypervsn.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirylchykeyuk

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Last updated: 2026-10-22