Above, a privately owned company headquartered in Portugal, was founded in 2020, employs approximately 20 individuals, and reported $2.3M in revenue as of 2023. Functioning as a tier 3 media tech buyer, the company operates as a joint venture between Inflight Solutions and castLabs. Its main product involves video processing and playout, providing an open, standards-based platform for the encoding, storage, and distribution of encoded video and related metadata through cloud-based services.
On April 26, 2026, Aviv Nahum, CEO and co-founder at Above, discussed the shift from static rule-based detection to AI-driven reasoning in cybersecurity on the Brilliance Security Magazine Podcast. This followed a highlight on March 31, 2026, regarding an investment in Above Security, which noted the irony in increasing enterprise security spending despite sophisticated modern security stacks. Previously, on March 24, 2025, Above collaborated with Thales to develop an industry-first content delivery system, leveraging Thales’s intelligent ground-to-aircraft integration to deliver Near-Live TV and timely media content, such as news and sports highlights, to passengers.