About AVPN

AVPN was founded in 2021 with a clear mission: make professional-grade video preservation accessible to every institution that needs it — from national archives to independent film makers.

Our Mission

Video is humanity's richest record, yet billions of hours sit on decaying tape, fragmented hard drives, and obsolete formats. We built AVPN to solve this at scale — combining the durability of cold storage with the convenience of cloud-native streaming and retrieval.

Leadership

Rachel Harding Co-founder & CEO

Previously VP Engineering at BBC Digital Archive. 18 years in media preservation technology.

David Lindqvist Co-founder & CTO

Ex-principal engineer at AWS S3 Glacier. Led storage durability initiatives across multiple regions.

Aisha Patel VP Product

Former head of product at Frame.io. Specialises in media workflows and collaborative tools.

Company

AVPN Ltd. is registered in England and Wales (company number 12847593). Our registered office is at 71 Queen Victoria Street, London, EC4V 4AY. We operate data centres in London, Frankfurt, Virginia, and Singapore.

Investors & Partners

We are backed by leading technology investors and work closely with standards bodies including the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA), the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI), and the Open Preservation Foundation.