How It Began

Charles Yeomans, an experienced entrepreneur and CEO with extensive experience in technology and finance, is joined by Asghar Riahi, a long-time technology product specialist with extensive experience in data storage and management at some of the largest technology companies in Silicon Valley. Asghar has developed a revolutionary idea to reduce data size, offering a novel approach to the problem since the first data compression algorithms in the 1970s. His idea involves combining codebooks with machine learning.

Charles and Asghar live in the same town east of San Francisco and had known each other from their sons having been in the same Boy Scout troop. Asghar asked for a meeting and pitched Charles his idea. Charles was impressed and checked it out with patent attorneys, data scientists at Harvard and Stanford, and agreed to found a company to exploit this extraordinary idea. They formed Atombeam, raised initial funding and quickly added Josh Cooper, PhD, a brilliant mathematician and data scientist who is a professor at the University of South Carolina, as Chief Scientist.  Initial patents were filed, potential customers were interviewed for product market fit and a prototype was built.

Since its inception, Atombeam has been granted or permitted over 45 patents, and several prominent companies have successfully conducted proof-of-concept trials.