Six specialist products, one expensive problem: the time lost between making a video and getting it seen. Backlight is turning a portfolio of media software into a connected production line.
TVU made the camera mobile. Its next problem is more stubborn: making the rest of live television move without taking an army of engineers along.
A rocket launch, a human genome, a film nobody has finished editing. Quantum makes a business of keeping bulky, irreplaceable data useful - without giving every byte the expensive seat.
The Buffalo-area company does not sell the server or the storage array. It sells the crucial middle - and has spent nearly four decades turning compatibility, predictable throughput and long support cycles into a durable niche.
A retired All-Star started with a video-request app. The useful business appeared when Greenfly stopped chasing clips one at a time and built the plumbing that moves thousands of sports images to the right athlete, sponsor, broadcaster, or feed.