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Venera Technologies provides cutting-edge file-based QC solutions to the digital media industry. Venera’s mission is to improve the operational efficiency of professional content workflows by automating the time-consuming, tedious content QC operations. It offers the most advanced Cloud Native QC services, designed for scale and content security.

Our Values

A brand is not defined only by its success, but also by its core values that drive every team member towards a common goal. Our core values are our lighthouse giving us direction, meaning, and purpose.

Empathy - Understand the Customer

Quality - Better Ourselves

Simplicity - Effortless for Customer

Innovation - Think Original

Trust - Deliver the Promise

Agility - Flexible to customer needs

Our Team

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. And the orchestra of Venera’s success is played by its amazing team. A tight-knit, talented group of people sharing a common vision of delivering great results for our clients consistently.

 

Meet our awesome team!

Vikas Singhal Venera

Vikas Singhal

CEO and Co-founder

Passionate about digital media, Vikas has been instrumental in developing and growing Venera’s business from grounds-up. He graduated from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT) and has over 23 years’ experience in developing and providing tools and services to support the digital media workflows.

Fereidoon Khosravi

Fereidoon Khosravi

Chief Business Development Officer

As a 40 year veteran in Information Technology, digital media and business development, Fereidoon works closely with Hollywood Studios, post production houses, broadcasters, OTT service providers, content aggregators and distributors worldwide, and is responsible for the global reach of Venera’s products and services. Fereidoon holds a Master of Science degree from University of Michigan,USA.

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Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay

Chief Technology Officer

Rajarshi as a CTO drives the technology roadmap of the company. He brings in experience of more than 24 years in the digital media technology domain, and has worked in diverse applications encompassing Video Test & Measurement, Set-top Box, and Digital Cinema. Rajarshi holds a M.S in Mathematics IIT Kanpur, India.

Yasir Drabu

Yasir Drabu

Technology Advisor

Yasir has been an angel investor, co-founder, and software product development partner for multiple companies in the mobility, process automation, digital healthcare, EdTech and real estate tech spaces. Yasir holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Kent State University and has been awarded many research grants.

Allison Wood

Allison Wood

Investor@Venera, CEO – Allison Wood Ventures

AWV is a global investment company that invests in high-potential businesses to help them grow faster. Apart from being an investor, Allison has also worked in several big budget films in and around Austin, and is a Voice Over Talent with audio books on Amazon, Audible and iTunes.

Our Team

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. And the orchestra of Venera’s success is played by its amazing team. A tight-knit, talented group of people sharing a common vision of delivering great results for our clients consistently.

 

Meet our awesome team!

Vikas Singhal Venera

Vikas Singhal

CEO and Co-founder

Passionate about digital media, Vikas has been instrumental in developing and growing Venera’s business from grounds-up. He graduated from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT) and has over 23 years’ experience in developing and providing tools and services to support the digital media workflows.

Fereidoon Khosravi

Fereidoon Khosravi

Chief Business Development Officer

As a 40 year veteran in Information Technology, digital media and business development, Fereidoon works closely with Hollywood Studios, post production houses, broadcasters, OTT service providers, content aggregators and distributors worldwide, and is responsible for the global reach of Venera’s products and services. Fereidoon holds a Master of Science degree from University of Michigan,USA.

Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay

Chief Technology Officer

Rajarshi as a CTO drives the technology roadmap of the company. He brings in experience of more than 24 years in the digital media technology domain, and has worked in diverse applications encompassing Video Test & Measurement, Set-top Box, and Digital Cinema. Rajarshi holds a M.S in Mathematics IIT Kanpur, India.

Yasir Drabu

Yasir Drabu

Technology Advisor

Yasir has been an angel investor, co-founder, and software product development partner for multiple companies in the mobility, process automation, digital healthcare, EdTech and real estate tech spaces. Yasir holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Kent State University and has been awarded many research grants.

Allison Wood

Allison Wood

Investor@Venera, CEO – Allison Wood Ventures

AWV is a global investment company that invests in high-potential businesses to help them grow faster. Apart from being an investor, Allison has also worked in several big budget films in and around Austin, and is a Voice Over Talent with audio books on Amazon, Audible and iTunes.

Industry Affiliation

Venera actively ties up with prominent organizations in digital media industry to stay abreast with the latest trends and best practices of the industry, and to contribute thought leadership in evolution of new technologies & processes.

Community Contribution

Venera supports the vision of AID Noida in helping underprivileged children become the part of the mainstream society by providing high-quality education to the children of slum communities in Noida. They work with a mission to align these children to viable career opportunities according to their skills, strengths and personal interest.

AID Noida

AID Noida is a registered trust in India that works towards imparting quality primary education to underprivileged children and incubate them before they start going to mainstream schools. It also offers support programs to help these children with their academics in mainstream schools and provides assistance in enrolling for professional education according to interest & capability of children.

 

Venera’s team has been associated with AID Noida since 2007 to create awareness about the importance of education in child’s development amongst the indigent population, and contributes its finances and time to various initiatives of the organization.

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AID Noida is a registered trust in India that works towards imparting quality primary education to underprivileged children and incubate them before they start going to mainstream schools. It also offers support programs to help these children with their academics in mainstream schools and provides assistance in enrolling for professional education according to interest & capability of children.

 

Venera’s team has been associated with AID Noida since 2007 to create awareness about the importance of education in child’s development amongst the indigent population, and contributes its finances and time to various initiatives of the organization.

Blog Articles

Our experts and thought leaders share their knowledge of technologies pertaining to QC solutions for digital media industry in these scholarly articles.

What is Cadence and why its validation is important?

Feb 14, 2024

Understanding video cadence (or pull-down) in the broadcast industry can be challenging. In this blog article, we will explain what Cadence (or Pull-down) is along with its practical application, and different pull-down patterns.

Frame Shifting or Blanking Shift Issue Unveiled

Dec 13, 2023

What is frame shifting, it's impact on video quality, and how to overcome the challenge effectively with automated QC tools?

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Understanding Dolby Atmos and its QC challenges

Aug 10, 2023

Dolby Atmos is a revolutionary leap in surround sound technology that takes the audio experience to a whole new level. Learn more about it.

Caption-Audio Synchronization issues due to editing: Automated QC and alignment 

Nov 1, 2023

By leveraging automated QC tools, content creators can ensure precise caption-audio synchronization, and save  time and resources while delivering high-quality, synchronized captions for their videos.

Importance of QC in Audio Phase issues

Aug 29, 2023

Audio phase plays a pivotal role in sound reproduction. Understand the causes of audio phase issues and their QC solution.

What is Cadence and why its validation is important?

Feb 14, 2024

Understanding video cadence (or pull-down) in the broadcast industry can be challenging. In this blog article, we will explain what Cadence (or Pull-down) is along with its practical application, and different pull-down patterns.

Frame shifting or Blanking shift issue unveiled

Dec 13, 2023

What is frame shifting, it's impact on video quality, and how to overcome the challenge effectively with automated QC tools?

Caption-Audio Synchronization issues due to editing: Automated QC & alignment

  Nov 1, 2023

Learn why caption-audio synchronization is important and how to deliver high-quality synchronized captions in your video using automated QC tools

Importance of QC of Audio Phase Issues

Aug 29, 2023

Audio phase is a complex and intricate phenomenon that plays a pivotal role in sound reproduction. Understand the causes of audio phase issues and its solution

Understanding Dolby Atmos and its QC challenges

Aug 10, 2023

Learn about the revolutionary technology of Dolby Atmos that takes your sound experience to a new level.

Subtitle QC

CapMate 101 – Caption/Subtitle Files Verification and Correction Solution

Aug 4, 2022

Many of our customers had been telling us that the process of validating and correcting closed caption files is tedious, time consuming and costly! And that they needed an innovative QC solution...

Group of Pictures

Understanding GOP – What is “Group Of Pictures” and Why is it Important

May 4, 2022

GOP or “Group of Pictures” is a term that refers to the video structure representing how digital video is grouped. But before we get into understanding GOP, let’s start with the basics...

Dialog Gated Loudness

Dialog-gated Audio loudness and why it is important

Apr 13, 2022

Learn what is dialog gated loudness, it’s importance in video content, and how our QC products can help you detect it in an automated manner...