Vikas Singhal

Co-Founder & CEO Venera Technologies

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Vikas Singhal is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Venera Technologies, a Noida-based company that automates one of the most tedious and least glamorous jobs in the media industry: checking that video, audio and caption files are actually correct before they go out. Venera’s products inspect media for the defects that ruin a broadcast or a streaming release — dropped frames, audio loudness violations, lip-sync drift, malformed or mistimed subtitles, regulatory compliance failures — and do it at a scale and speed no human QC operator can match. Founded in 2003 with Fereidoon Khosravi, the company sells to broadcasters, Hollywood studios, OTT platforms and post-production houses, and has steadily migrated a product line originally built for on-premise deployment into cloud-native form. Singhal, an IIT Delhi graduate, built the business from the ground up and has led it for more than two decades.

Career Highlights

• Co-founded Venera Technologies in 2003 with Fereidoon Khosravi, now the company’s Chief Business Development Officer.
• Built the business from the ground up, moving from Executive Director of Business Development into the Chief Executive Officer role.
• Developed a product line covering on-premise and cloud-native automated QC: Quasar, Pulsar, CapMate for subtitles and captions, QCtudio for collaborative review, and Qompli for compliance detection.
• CapMate won a Future Best of Show Award at NAB Show 2026.
• Launched Qompli, an AI-native compliance intelligence product for media workflows, in September 2026.
• Shipped AI-powered automated lip-sync detection in Quasar in March 2026 and ADM audio quality control support across Quasar and Pulsar in August 2026.
• Showcased the company’s AI-driven QC platform at IBC 2026.

Professional Journey

Singhal graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and went into software, spending his early career in engineering and specialist development roles before moving into a commercial one. Venera Technologies, founded in 2003, was the point at which he stopped working on other people’s products.

The company was co-founded with Fereidoon Khosravi, and the division of labour between them has shaped it. Khosravi brought four decades of IT and media experience and relationships with Hollywood studios, broadcasters and OTT providers worldwide; Singhal brought the engineering foundation and took the business development function, which in a specialist B2B software company selling into broadcast means learning the customers’ workflows in detail before there is a product worth selling. Venera’s own account is that Singhal developed the business “from grounds-up”, and his early title — Executive Director of Business Development rather than a technical one — reflects where the constraint actually was.

The market Venera chose is narrow and defensible. File-based quality control became a necessity as broadcast moved off tape: once content exists as files moving through automated pipelines, errors propagate silently and are discovered by viewers rather than by operators. Venera built Quasar for automated video and audio QC and Pulsar alongside it, then extended into the areas where media companies were least well served. CapMate addressed subtitles and captions, a domain that is both regulatorily mandatory in many markets and notoriously error-prone. QCtudio addressed the human half of the problem — giving teams a collaborative environment to review and adjudicate what the automated tools flag.

Singhal moved into the CEO role having already run the commercial side, and the company’s trajectory since has been defined by two transitions. The first is architectural: the product line has been rebuilt to run cloud-native as well as on-premise, matching customers who have moved post-production and distribution into cloud infrastructure. The second is the application of machine learning to defect classes that rule-based QC handles badly. In March 2026 Venera shipped AI-powered automated lip-sync detection in Quasar — a defect that had traditionally required human viewing to catch. In August 2026 it added ADM quality control support for next-generation object-based audio across Quasar and Pulsar. In September 2026 it launched Qompli, positioned as AI-native compliance intelligence for media workflows, extending the company from technical correctness into regulatory and editorial compliance.

The work has been recognised in the industry’s own forums rather than the general business press: CapMate took a Future Best of Show Award at NAB Show 2026, and the company presented its AI-driven QC platform at IBC 2026, the two trade events where broadcast technology buying decisions are made. Venera remains a privately held company headquartered in Noida, with Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay as CTO and technology advisory input from Yasir Drabu.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi