WHO WE ARE
We are a team of entrepreneurs and inventors dedicated to pushing the boundaries of hardware, software, and machine learning to unlock the power of human productivity.
We have created a 3D Augmented Interactive Reality™ (AiR™) platform, which combines immersive 3D augmented reality with natural gesture-based interaction.
We work with the world’s leading minds in augmented reality technology to build next-generation productivity applications for high-growth industries such as field service and construction, healthcare, warehousing, oil and gas and more.
WHERE WE'RE GOING
The applications for Atheer’s Augmented Interactive Reality™ platform are limitless.
We see a future where the physical and the digital converge to create a better, safer and more open world. We envision new paradigm for computing and communications that enables everyone - from doctors and designers, to machinists, musicians, shipbuilders and scientists - to work smarter and realize their full potential.
And the enterprise is just the beginning. It’s only a matter of time before Augmented interactive Reality extends into the home and becomes embedded in people’s everyday lives.
MANAGEMENT TEAM
CEO
Alberto is a mobility industry veteran. He most recently led HP’s efforts in tablets and in enterprise mobility software. Before that, Alberto ran a number of businesses at Nokia including the innovative MeeGo effort and the accessories group. Alberto led Vertu, the luxury mobile phone company, during its explosive growth and turn to profitability. He has been a board member at Opera Software and Bang & Olufsen and a partner at McKinsey & Co. Alberto received his Ph. D in computer science from Stanford University.
FOUNDER and CTO
Soulaiman has spent his career trying to understand how the world operates and how to leverage that knowledge to improve everyday life. With that core belief he created Atheer. The goal is to advance human-centric computing technologies and empower users to have technology work with them in ways never thought possible only a few short years ago.
His previous work includes designing cancer tests and treatments as well as creating models for robotics and unmanned arial vehicles. He received his Masters of Science and PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
VP of MARKETING
Ketan comes to Atheer with over 20 years of experience in leading marketing, strategy, alliances, corporate development and engineering at major corporations such as Cadence Design Systems, Sun Microsystems as well as multiple successful start-ups. Prior to joining Atheer, Ketan was VP of marketing, alliances, and mergers & acquisitions at AtHoc, the leader in cloud-based enterprise crisis communication. Previously at Cadence, he managed corporate strategy and led marketing & ecosystem development for a $250M+ product line. Ketan has held technical and management positions at Ambit, Sun and NeXT computers. He has an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley and an MS in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
VP of SOFTWARE
Mario came to Atheer with a host of experience in building distributed systems and software for some of the most popular devices used by millions today. Prior to Atheer Mario served as the Director of Engineering for Samsung Mobile where his efforts took multiple releases of Samsung Knox for the Galaxy and Note smart phones to market. Before that Mario worked on products such as Microsoft Azure, Xbox, Kindle and the Amazon and eBay websites.
Mario received his masters in computer science from the University of Washington.
VP of BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Vishal joins us from Qualcomm, where he held various leadership positions in Sales, Business Development and Product Management. At Qualcomm, Vishal was responsible for the successful launch of several iconic mobile products, software services and mobile video platforms.
Prior to Qualcomm, Vishal spent over 13 years at Motorola. Vishal led sales for Motorola’s Mobile Devices division. Vishal also led sales and corporate strategy for the N. America handset division which had over $9B in revenue and was responsible for award winning products such as the RAZR and the first Motorola Android Device (DROID). At Motorola, Vishal also held various product management and engineering roles in the Mobile, Networks and Multimedia divisions.
Vishal has an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University and a M.S. in Computer Science from the Pennsylvania State University.
BOARD
EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN
Bobby Yazdani is Founder and Managing Partner of Cota Capital, a firm investing in private and public technology companies. Bobby works full time on the development and support of entrepreneurs through Cota Capital. Through his family office Signatures Capital, Bobby has invested in over 100 private companies. In 2014, Bobby was ranked #1 out of 2000 angel investors for successful follow-on funding by CB Insights. Masimo Corporation was Bobby’s first angel investment in 1989.
In 2015, Bobby endowed the Signatures Innovation Fellowship at University of California, Berkeley to support data science projects with commercial promise. Bobby also serves as a founding member of the Persian Tech Entrepreneurs network, and a National Advisory Board Member of The Reset Foundation.
Bobby founded Saba in 1997, taking the company public in 2000. Today, Saba is the leading provider of Human Capital Development & Management Solutions, serving over 30 million people from 2,200 customers across 195 countries and in 37 languages worldwide. Prior to Saba, Bobby worked at Oracle in various R&D; roles.
Bobby has successfully mentored entrepreneurs and invested in over 100 early-stage startups including Aardvark (acq. by Google), Addepar, Atheer Labs, Baarzo (acq. by Google), BaseHealth, Bina Technologies (acq. by Roche), Bonobos, Canary, Clearspring, CleverSense (acq. by Google), Dropbox, FundersClub, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), GuardantHealth, HomeJoy, inDinero, InstaEdu (acq. by Chegg), KeyChain Logistics, KissMetrics, Klout (acq. by Lithium Technologies), Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI), Medialets, NextBio (acq. by Illumina), OpenGov, PassBan (acq. by EMC/RSA), Qwiki (acq. by Yahoo), Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), SoundHound, SweetGreen, ThinkBig Analytics (acq. by Teradata), Uber, Wash.io, Webs.com (acq. by VistaPrint), ZenPayroll and more.
Born in Tehran, Iran, Bobby completed high school in England and received a B.A. in Applied Mathematics at UC Berkeley.
BOARD MEMBER
Noosheen Hashemi, is an investor and philanthropist with a passion for entrepreneurship. Since 1997, she has led her family's support of enterprising nonprofits and social change makers, co-founding The HAND Foundation and PARSA Community Foundation. Hashemi and her husband, Zod Nazem, manage their family office which includes investments in private and public companies.
Hashemi has served on multiple nonprofit boards including Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), New America Foundation and India Community Center. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an independent scholar of diasporas. She writes and speaks about how diasporas' strategic contributions in business, philanthropy, politics and mainstream culture can advance their collective social equity, influence and power. Hashemi was a ten-year veteran of Oracle Corporation where she quickly rose up the ranks to become one of the company's youngest leaders and executives. As Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Quote.com, she helped transform the personal finance industry in the mid 90s. Hashemi enjoys advising young entrepreneurs and start ups to achieve scale through operational and strategic excellence. She and her husband and her two kids live in the SF Bay Area.
BOARD MEMBER
Ullas is the founder of Streamlined Ventures, a seed stage investment firm that focuses on extreme scale business application and application infrastructure software companies for the Web, Mobile Web, Social Web and Enterprise. Ullas has been an active investor for almost 20 years. He has seed and angel invested in over 60 companies, including Critical Path (CPTH), InterTrust (ITRU), iRobot (IRBT), Arbinet (ARBT), Sandforce (acquired by LSI) and CloudVolumes (acquired by VMWare) and has investment experience in another 200 companies through Streamlined Ventures and his prior venture capital firm Globespan Capital. Prior to launching Streamlined Ventures, Ullas was a senior member of the investment team at VC firm Globespan Capital for 12 years, where he invested in companies such as BladeLogic (IPO - BLOG and acquired by BMC Software), Virident Systems (acquired by Western Digital), Pirus Networks (acquired by Sun Microsystems), Revivio (acquired by Symantec) and Nantero. While at Globespan, Ullas helped his colleagues invest in almost 150 companies including market leading companies such as Palo Alto Networks (PANW) and oDesk. Before that, Ullas served as a Senior VP and equity research analyst at First Albany, where he covered the emerging Internet sector in the mid/late 1990s and received top analyst recognition as a Wall Street All Star from Fortune Magazine and The Wall Street Journal. Ullas started his career as an organic chemist and an entrepreneur in that sector.
CEO
Alberto is a mobility industry veteran. He most recently led HP’s efforts in tablets and in enterprise mobility software. Before that, Alberto ran a number of businesses at Nokia including the innovative MeeGo effort and the accessories group. Alberto led Vertu, the luxury mobile phone company, during its explosive growth and turn to profitability. He has been a board member at Opera Software and Bang & Olufsen and a partner at McKinsey & Co. Alberto received his Ph. D in computer science from Stanford University.
FOUNDER and CTO
Soulaiman has spent his career trying to understand how the world operates and how to leverage that knowledge to improve everyday life. With that core belief he created Atheer. The goal is to advance human-centric computing technologies and empower users to have technology work with them in ways never thought possible only a few short years ago.
His previous work includes designing cancer tests and treatments as well as creating models for robotics and unmanned arial vehicles. He received his Masters of Science and PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
FELLOWS & ADVISORS
FELLOW
Allen is a leading expert in the areas of high-dimensional pattern recognition, computer vision, image processing, and sensor networks, and has published more than 50 technical papers and 12 US patents/applications. Prior to Atheer, he served as a Principal Investigator at UC Berkeley. Allen received his PhD in ECE from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
FELLOW
Sina is an entrepreneur at heart. He has over a decade of innovation and development experience in the fields of human vision augmentation, wearable eye display, and intellectual property management. He was the founder and CEO of Neuroptical Labs and Vega Vista, Inc.. He is the author and co-author of over 30 patents in areas such as wearable eye-display, gesture based interface, vision care, and eye surgery.
Sina graduated from Louis Pasteur University, School of Opthalmology and Orthoptic with an advanced degree in optics physiology from EPHE. He also graduated from the Challenge + program from the HEC School of Management.
ADVISOR
For the past 12 years, Andrew has been building new business from exciting technology in the consumer and mobile space. Prior to joining HP, Andrew worked at Skype where he led the revenue team responsible for paid product marketing, acquisition marketing, and web sales seeing users surpass 400M. He has also worked at the technology focused private equity fund Silver Lake Partners focused on operational improvements for large scale technology investments as well as running products for Google, Expedia, and HSBC. Andrew holds a BA from Harvard, an MBA from Stanford.
NEWS & EVENTS
ReadWrite - What Augmented Reality Is—And Isn't
August 4, 2015
Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are becoming hot buzzwords in the tech ecosystem. But what defines and distinguishes augmented reality and virtual reality?
PAN Communications - The Wide World Of Wearables: Looking Toward the Future of Branding
July 9, 2015
While some of these devices rely on input from other controls (Oculus Rift uses gloves and other gaming devices while Recon Jet uses inputs similar to Google Glass, via a touchpad on the side), many of the professional-grade virtual reality headsets make fantastic use of the gestural controls previously described. One of the leaders in this space is Atheer Labs’ flagship Atheer AiR™ SmartGlasses.
Business Wire - Atheer Named Top 100 Global Company to Watch by AlwaysOn
July 8, 2015
Atheer announced it has been selected as a “Global 100 Companies to Watch” by AlwaysOn. The award signifies peer leadership and game-changing technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets.
ABI Research - Augmented World Expo, E3, and the Future of Augmented and Virtual Reality
June 17, 2015
Atheer Labs smart glasses: One of the more impressive gesture-based AR control setups, with accurate hand tracking and fluid movement.
Business Wire - Atheer Adds Intelligent Voice and Head-motion Controls to Gesture-based AiR Smart Glasses Platform
June 9, 2015
Atheer, the company pioneering Augmented Interactive Reality (AiR), combining the power of 3D augmented reality with gesture-based interaction, today announced the latest software release that adds intelligent voice and head-motion input control to the award-winning Atheer AiR™ smart glasses platform.
BusinessWire - Atheer and Industry Leaders Establish Augmented Reality for Enterprise Alliance (AREA)
May 19, 2015
Atheer, the company pioneering Augmented interactive Reality (AiR™) by combining the power of mobile 3D augmented reality with gesture-based interaction, today announced its founding membership in the Augmented Reality for Enterprise Alliance (AREA). The new global member-based organization is focused on accelerating AR adoption through development and expansion of a vibrant technology ecosystem.
FierceMobileIT - Atheer Labs CEO: Enterprise is 'most natural starting point' for smartglasses
May 13, 2015
It's all about finding the right use cases for smartglasses, according to Torres, and his company has found some good ones for enterprises. From doctors using hands-free 3D smartglasses to avoid contamination, to industrial workers using augmented reality to provide see-what-I-see capabilities in a highly technical environment, to oil and gas workers using the technology to work hands-free, Torres thinks Atheer has the right solutions.
Alberto Torres for ReadWrite - The Greatest Potential—And Obstacle—For Wearables At Work
May 8, 2015
The vision for AR as a hands-free experience has inspired numerous players—including my own company, Atheer, as well as Microsoft with its HoloLens—to actively work toward that by developing gesture-based interaction technology.
TechRepublic - 3D smart glasses will transform workflows around the world, says Atheer's CEO
May 8, 2015
Augmented reality... will transform the global enterprise and the way work is done in the future, in nearly every imaginable way. From the warehouse floor to the operating room, augmented reality will unlock human productivity and enable faster, safer, and smarter workflows for everyone.
BusinessWire - Atheer Unveils Communications Console and Unity Integration in AiR OS
April 7, 2015
Atheer today announced a new software update for the Atheer AiR™ OS. Following the recent launch of Atheer’s second generation award-winning Smart Glasses, the Atheer AiR Developer Kit 2 (AiR DK2), the company is now introducing the cloud-based AiR Operations and Communications Console, as well as a plug-in for the Unity 3D Engine.
SPAR Point Group - Atheer's SmartGlasses: Augmented Reality You Can Touch
April 3, 2015
There are a number of see-through augmented reality solutions on the market, but Mountain View-based company Atheer says their SmartGlasses are "the industry's only mobile, gesture-controlled see-through smart glasses." Atheer is showcasing this technology at SPAR International 2015.
Forbes - Smart Glasses Won't Hit The Mainstream Till Our Bosses Start Buying Them
March 20, 2015
Alberto Torres has seen a few corporate tragedies unfold in his lifetime.... from further afield, he saw the rise and fall of Google Glass, another promising technology whose ambitions were further amplified by hype, but whose fate looked sealed earlier this year when Google said it would halt sales of the device.
Healio - Speaker urges ODs to embrace smart glasses technology, educate patients
March 17, 2015
Augmented reality smart glasses provide a live, direct or indirect view of the world, Underwood said, with the display embedded within the lens. Current models include the Atheer One and Shima from Laforge Optical. "If you think about all the things you do with your cell phone - how do you make that a better experience? Atheer has been a leader in that," Underwood said.
Display Daily - Atheer Labs has Unique IP to help Augmented Reality Adoption
March 17, 2015
Atheer Labs (Mountain View, CA) is one of many companies focused on opportunities in the augmented reality space. Art Berman provided a nice overview of the company back in February (Introducing the Atheer Augmented Reality Glasses), and this article provides an update based on a new interview with the company. The key innovations at the company are centered around two items: a gesture interaction paradigm and - advanced visual ergonomics.
InformationWeek - 3 Technologies To Power Up The Industrial Workforce
March 6, 2015
For decades, the industrial workforce in the US has been in decline, with human production increasingly moving offshore, where labor can be had for pennies on the dollar, or being replaced altogether by machines. Today, three areas of development promise to recalibrate the limits of human productivity and pioneer the next industrial revolution: the physical Web, artificial intelligence, and smart glasses.
Wired Insights - Five Ways Smart Glasses Will Revolutionize the Medical Field
February 25, 2015
Smart Glasses have the potential to change every industry, but none more so than the medical field. From family doctors giving regular preventative care to emergency room surgeons performing lifesaving procedures, and everyone in between, the way medical professionals perform their job, and the tools they use to do so, are constantly evolving.
Augmented Reality Trends - Atheer Launches New Version of Augmented Reality Headset
February 7, 2015
The company said that it develops its own smart glasses which “make it possible for users to interact with data in a natural way and collaborate with their peers like never before.” The second version of augmented reality glasses comes with some changes. The gesturing capabilities have seen some refinements which come with the latest SDK. There is a Snapdragon 800 process and the frame is a lighter and more compact one compared to the earlier version. The number of pilot programs which Atheer is running in different industries to modify the product is also expanding.
VR Times - After the HoloLens, Here Comes Atheer
February 6, 2015
Virtual reality and augmented reality technologies are fast maturing, and recently we witnessed the unveiling of Microsoft’s augmented reality glasses called the HoloLens. Now, a startup makes a mark in the VR world with its latest development on virtual and augmented reality.
BusinessWire - Atheer Raises the Bar for Natural Gesture-Based Mobile Computing with Second Generation Smart Glasses Experience
February 5, 2015
Atheer ... today announced its second generation Smart Glasses experience, with the Atheer AiR Developer Kit 2 (AiR DK2) and the expanded AiR Pilot Program. Atheer’s AiR platform has once again raised the bar for gesture-based computing, with the next generation of AiR Gestures and the official release of the AiR OS.
GigaOM - As HoloLens looms, Atheer plans new augmented reality headset
February 5, 2015
Mountain View-based startup Atheer plans to announce today a second developer version of its augmented reality glasses, moving it closer to the long-promised headset it plans to sell to businesses.
VentureBeat - Atheer wants to be the HoloLens of the workplace, releases new SDK
February 5, 2015
Microsoft’s new HoloLens may be the thing that introduces many to augmented reality experiences, but other smaller companies have been building augmented reality applications for work for some time now. One such company is Mountain View, Calif.-based Atheer
Road to VR - Two Companies Working on Products that are Eerily Similar to Microsoft’s HoloLens
January 24, 2015
HoloLens, a newly announced augmented reality device from Microsoft, is definitely turning some heads to the possibility of interacting with floating apps and games. We can’t help but notice though that there seems to be an eerie convergence of technology, leaving us with a serious case of déjà vu. Here we take a closer look at two crowdfunded devices that are working on the same problems as HoloLens: Atheer Labs’s AiR Smart Glasses and ....
iMedicalApps - Google Glass Explorer program ends with its future uncertain
January 16, 2015
But while much of the attention has been focused on Google, it’s worth recalling that what we’re talking about is the technology and less so the specific brand of device. And we’ve seen others take some interesting approaches to wearable smart glasses; Atheer’s smart glasses not only provide a heads up display, but also provide gesture recognition, letting you interact with what you’re seeing.
BusinessWire - Atheer Wins Compass Intelligence Enterprise Product Innovation of the Year Award
January 8, 2015
Atheer, the company pioneering Augmented interactive Reality™ (AiR) by combining the power of 3D augmented reality with gesture-based interaction, today announced it has won the “Enterprise Product Innovation of the Year” award from Compass Intelligence, a leading market intelligence and consulting firm specializing in mobility, IT and M2M industries. Alberto Torres, CEO of Atheer, accepted the award during a special luncheon hosted by Compass Intelligence at the 2015 International CES® trade show in Las Vegas.
eWeek - Google Glass Inspires Other Smart Eyewear Competitors
January 5, 2015
Atheer Labs offers its Augmented interactive Reality (AiR) platform, which includes the company's AiR Smart Glasses and its AiR OS. These smart glasses can be used today by workers to see and interact with digital information on a screen in front of their eyes.
BusinessWire - Media Advisory: Atheer Showcases Gesture-Controlled AiR™Smart Glasses at CES 2015
January 2, 2015
WHAT: Atheer, the company pioneering Augmented interactive Reality (AiR™) Smart Glasses by combining the power of mobile 3D augmented reality with gesture-based interaction, will be showcasing their latest technology through live demos at CES 2015. Atheer invites partners, potential customers, and media to experience first-hand how the AiR platform can be used to improve real-world enterprise workflows.
Businesswire - Atheer Secures Former Nokia and Vertu Design Chief to Lead Design and User Experience
December 11, 2014
With more than two decades of global award-winning industrial design and user interaction experience, Nuovo will work with the team to lead Atheer’s design strategy as it introduces a new class of 3D smart glasses – a platform to power productive workflows for the workforce of the 21st century.
Business Insider - Nokia's Former Design Chief Is Joining The Startup Building A Google Glass Competitor
December 11, 2014
Frank Nuovo, who worked as Nokia's chief of design for 11 years and also founded the luxury smartphone company Vertu, will be joining the startup Atheer Labs as its design chief, Business Insider has learned. Atheer Labs is developing an augmented reality headset for commercial use in hospitals, on construction sites, and other environments in which the hands-free technology makes sense.
Industrial Distribution - Atheer Labs Bringing Augmented Reality To Industrial Workplaces
December 5, 2014
Thanks to companies like Atheer Labs, augmented reality is no longer a thing of science fiction and cinema. It’s being used right now, and Atheer wants to bring the technology to the industrial workplace sooner than you’d think.
Examiner.com - OnMobile shows the future beyond Google Glass
December 1, 2014
One of the key messages taken away from this year’s OnMobile conference was that while Google Glass may never become a widely accepted consumer product (and there has been plenty of recent evidence to support this), technologists are already moving quickly to bring new products to market that will usher us into the gesture-based world.
FOX NEWS - 3-D glasses offer hands-free computing for doctors
November 30, 2014
There’s no shortage of tech companies working on cutting-edge medical innovations and now, one company has developed a new 3-D platform for health care professionals.
GIZMODO Brazil - Um olhar através do Oculus Rift no mundo submerso do petróleo
November 13, 2014
(Original text in Portuguese) GE today opened its first Global Research Center in Brazil: it is in Rio de Janeiro, the UFRJ Technology Park (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), and has a team of 140 researchers and engineers working in innovation.
Businesswire - Atheer Selected to Join Dassault Systèmes Technology Partners Program
November 4, 2014
Atheer, the company pioneering Augmented interactive Reality™ (AiR), combining the power of 3D augmented reality with gesture-based computing interaction, today announced it has joined Dassault Systèmes’ Technology Partners Program.
Automated Buildings - Wearable Technologies: Is this the Next Thing?
November 2, 2014
When you take into consideration that ABI Research expects 90 million wearable devices to ship worldwide by the end of 2014.
FierceMobileIT - Minority Report flashback: Atheer Labs brings augmented reality to the enterprise
October 15, 2014
Watching the demonstration of Atheer Labs' augmented reality goggles here at Compass Intelligence's GoMobile 2014, I had a flashback of Tom Cruise in the movie Minority Report.
WANT TO JOIN US?
We are always interested in the best and brightest talent in user experience and interface, machine learning and image processing, system design and integration, and any human-centric technology.
If you want to join our team, please review the positions we are currently hiring for and apply to the ones that interest you.
