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Kwok: KAV has an estimated $15M to $20M R&D moat over potential rivals
“Right now, We have probably like a 15 or twenty million dollar R&D moat between us and them.”
CavSports' 3D-printed helmet gives a two-minute edge in 60km races
“It will give a cyclist a two-minute, effectively, head start on a sixty-kilometer race. It has the highest safety ratings possible, independently verified and tested.”
Kwok: Developed hockey helmet 10x better at concussion reduction, adopted by Sharks
“So I do what engineers do and developed a hockey helmet that was about 10 X better statistically at reducing concussion risk. San Jose Sharks adopted it. A number of hockey teams started adopting it.”
Kwok: $3M seed round will bring KAV Sports to profitability by year-end
“We're doing a three million dollar seed race that is to get us a profitability at the end of this year.”
Kwok: KAV uses sub-$1,000 3D printers deployable within 24 hours
“Now we have a model where printers are under a thousand dollars. We can procure them in two days. We can set them up in a day.”
Kwok: Legacy helmet brands take 3–4 years to develop what KAV builds in four weeks
“The helmet I just showed you, that's four weeks into development. A helmet like that typically would take three or four years for the big brands to launch.”
Kwok: KAV Sports has sold about $645,000 worth of product to date
“We sold today about 645,000 dollars worth of product.”
Kwok: Cycling accounts for 50M of 65M annual sports helmets
“The sports space is about sixty-five million helmets a year. About 50 of those are in cycling. Football is about a million, whereas some of the other activities that we're sequencing first just have larger markets.”
Kwok: Construction and safety helmet market is 500M units annually
“There's other interesting things happening within the safety and construction market. Those are about five hundred million units a year.”