A hockey player from the Iron Range raised $350,000 from hometown investors and built a digital signage company that ran 25,000 screens. Twenty years later, a Vista Equity Partners firm bought it.
Kitcast is a cloud-based digital signage platform that turns Apple TV - and eight other native platforms - into managed screens for offices, stores, campuses, hospitals, and lobbies. Launched in 2015 as the first digital signage app on Apple's tvOS App Store, it lets teams design, schedule, and push content to any number of displays from one dashboard, with enterprise features like SSO, MDM integration, offline playback, and emergency alerts. Priced from $7 per screen per month, it is trusted by organizations including Walmart, The New York Times, Marriott, and multiple universities.