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, Above CEO and co-founder Aviv Nahum discussed the cybersecurity shift from static rule-based detection to AI-driven reasoning on the Brilliance Security Magazine Podcast. Previously, on March 24, 2025, Above collaborated with Thales to develop an industry-first content delivery system for Near-Live TV, which leverages Thales’s intelligent ground-to-aircraft integration to provide passengers with timely media content such as news and sports highlights. This followed the February 21, 2025, announcement of Above's FastPath system, designed to transform In-Flight Entertainment (IFE) content updates from a process that typically took up to 90 days to one completed in minutes.
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