Visual intelligence
is in our DNA

Two decades of pioneering visual technology.
Today we operate the most complete visual intelligence platform for space.
Every telemetry log is a compression of reality. We give space back its full resolution.
The information advantage of video over text
3.6
what we express through Video
360mbps
what we express through language
100bps

Pioneers in Vision

Our founding team spent two decades giving industries sight. They built the wireless video infrastructure that untethered Hollywood cinematography — earning Technical Oscars and Emmys along the way. They gave security operations real-time visual awareness at scale, and made 90%+ of the global film industry run on their technology.
When NASA and SpaceX needed broadcast-quality video from orbit, they called the same team. Dragon's first docking with ISS. Falcon 9's first drone ship landing. At one point, 100% of pixels coming from space ran through their equipment.
But beyond launch and the Space Station, space was still blind. 10,000+ satellites in orbit with no video. Mission control still running on scrolling text. That same team founded TRL11 to close that gap — to bring visual intelligence to the highest-stakes operating environment on (or off) Earth.

MEET THE TEAM

Nicol Verheem
Founder & CEO
Highly awarded video technologist; founded Teradek (90%+ global market share), Group CEO Vitec; formerly Video Lead at GE Security and Denel defense
Alex Pertica
Chief Science Officer
SDA at Terran Orbital / Lockheed Martin; Optical Science Group Leader at Lawrence Livermore National Labs ($3.3B budget), 36 years; Aerospace Corporation
COL. GREG GILLINGER
Intelligence Lead
Dir. National Security Council; Dir. Intelligence, 14th Squadron, Space Force; 2IC Air Force Signals Intelligence, Fort Meade
Aneesh Goel
Dir. Business Development
BSc Economics and Planetary Science, Berkeley; co-founded NewSpace at Berkeley; previous experience at OrbitFab and space startups
Ryan Barber
Algorithm Lead
Teradek, Dir. Software and Algorithms; 6 years Brandywine Communications; patents in video and precision timing
Gabe Phan
Dir. Software Engineering
Built teams and infrastructure from scratch across telecomms, video, gaming; architected software at Teradek
Dennis Scheftner
Hardware Lead
17 years Teradek, Dir. Hardware; $500M+ product revenue, 250K units shipped; patents in video and wireless transmission
Nate Carlson
Dir. Operations
Ops Manager, Amazon; Engineering Manager, Canoo; B.Sc. Aerospace Engineering, UT Austin
Rodney Grubbs
Space Imaging Expert
NASA Artemis Imagery Lead; Principal Investigator behind the first live HDTV, UHD, and 3D camera systems flown in space
Jenny Garner
Systems Engineer
Chief Engineer on classified spacecraft programs at Boeing; DOD Top Secret/SCI; B.S. Aerospace Engineering, University of Washington
CONNOR LEMP
Software Engineer
5 years software engineering; Mathematics degree; builds core software systems for TRL11's space video platform

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