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The Austrians Who Wrote the Rulebook for How the Internet Plays Video
Stefan Lederer and his co-founders helped write MPEG-DASH during their PhDs. Then they built a company on top of it - and won an Emmy for the encoding tech that keeps modern streaming from choking.
AppX
AppX is a Y Combinator-backed (S21) creator economy SaaS company from India that lets educators, influencers and content creators launch their own branded mobile apps and websites to sell courses, memberships, live classes and digital products - without writing code. It bundles course hosting, payments, community tools, DRM content security and marketing into a single console that creators fully own.
Intertrust
Intertrust is a Berkeley-based trusted computing pioneer that builds the cryptographic plumbing for connected devices, media, and energy systems. Founded in 1990 as the inventor of DRM, it now sells PKI, identity, and data-governance tools to clients like Sony, Philips, LG, and a growing roster of utilities and virtual power plant operators.
Talal Shamoon
Talal G. Shamoon is a Silicon Valley-based CEO, electrical engineer, and computer scientist who has led Intertrust Technologies since 2003. A Cornell-trained PhD, he helped pioneer digital rights management in the late 1990s and has since built Intertrust into a global leader in trusted computing, data governance, and IoT security. Under his leadership, Intertrust's patents and products now underpin billions of licensed devices worldwide, spanning entertainment, energy, and connected infrastructure.