video-optimization
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Yang Cai
Yang Cai is the co-founder, chairman, president and CEO of VisualOn, a San Jose video technology company he started in 2003. A computer scientist with a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, Cai built his career in digital media engineering, including work on one of the industry's first real-time software MPEG-2 encoders. At VisualOn he has guided the company from cross-platform media player SDKs into AI-driven video compression, notably the Optimizer content-adaptive encoding engine that cuts streaming bitrates by 40 to 50 percent while lowering energy use.
imgix
imgix is a San Francisco-based visual media platform that optimizes, transforms, and delivers images and video in real time through a simple URL-based API. Founded in 2011 by former YouTube web developer Chris Zacharias, imgix lets developers resize, crop, compress, convert formats, and now apply AI edits such as background removal and generative fill simply by appending parameters to an image URL, offloading image infrastructure to a globally distributed CDN. The company serves tens of thousands of customers, including Unsplash, Kickstarter, Eventbrite, and Porsche, and delivers on the order of billions of image requests a day.
VisualOn, Inc.
VisualOn is a Silicon Valley video software company that helps streaming services and device makers deliver and play back video across every screen. Founded in 2003, its multi-platform media player SDKs power more than 200 million devices, and its AI-driven Optimizer for content-adaptive encoding cuts streaming bitrates by up to 40% on average while preserving picture quality. The company sits in the plumbing of online video - the codecs, players, DRM, and analytics that most viewers never see but rely on every time they press play.