Sam Bhattacharyya

Building Katana, a tool to help content creators turn podcasts and webinars into short clips they can reuse on social media

I lead the AI team at Hopin, building features like AI Upscaling and Touch Up in Hopin's livestreaming product. I do both product (talking to customers, strategy, project management) and engineering (training AI models, prototyping features).

We developed and patented a novel video-compression technology called "Video Vectorization" which could compress animated & e-learning video by 10x (compared to h264) while improving video quality. We found it difficult to commercialize our new video codec and pivoted to AI Media Processing (e.g. AI Upscaling, Noise Filtering) in 2020.

Our AI Media Processing SDK was 10x more efficient than anything else available at the time, and was used in production by a number of billion-dollar companies, including Hopin, Fuze, Airmeet and Hubilo. In late 2021, we sold Vectorly to Hopin, our largest customer.

After graduating MIT, I started dot Learn as a social-impact venture, building an e-learning app with affordable, data-light video-learning courses which helped 50k+ students in West Africa study for their college entrance exams.

After failing to monetize, we rebranded the company to "Vectorly" in 2018 and focused on commercializing a proprietary video-compression algorithm "Video Vectorization" we had built internally.