About
Cithorum builds Jam, the software codec; Cithorum Cloud, the sovereign managed cloud running on Jam; and Knowledge Graph platforms that make regulated customer data queryable.
The cost of storage falls slowly compared with the volume of enterprise data. Software compression at the data plane changes the slope without requiring a new hardware cycle.
Cithorum's company shape follows that thesis: license Jam where customers already have infrastructure, run a managed sovereign cloud where customers want the outcome, and build Knowledge Graph platforms where the data itself becomes the product surface.
Original founders
NA
Co-founder, CEO
Commercial lead. Ex-Linklaters Head of Engineering. Owns strategy, fundraising, partnerships, customer surface, and the go-to-market system around Jam, sovereign cloud, and Knowledge Graph platforms.
LM
Co-founder, CTO
Jam codec inventor and systems engineer. Owns compression engineering, deterministic restore, SSD-bound performance, and the core software data plane.
Future additions
SA
Co-founder, Head of Systems Engineering
Knowledge Graph and platform engineering lead. Previously lead developer at EDF Energy, a major UK energy company, and on Office Depot’s global ecommerce platform. Specialist in energy-management software, large-scale SaaS, and data-heavy operational systems.
DM
Co-founder, COO & CFO
Corporate strategy, international business development, financial operations, investor reporting, and fund-management lead. Brings nearly three decades taking AI, robotics, blockchain, and MedTech technologies to market across six continents and 55 countries.
SN
Investor · India tender procurement lead · Commercial advisor
Anchor investor and India commercial channel lead. Advises on tender procurement, state and central-government routes, Karnataka infrastructure relationships, and enterprise introductions.
Jam licensing, global commercial roadmap, and enterprise deployment conversations.
Tender contracting, Udyam-MSE pathway, and Indian public-sector channel.
Canadian-content proof, CCV methodology, KIC mapping, and prime contractor fit.
The codec begins as a storage-systems bet: the bottleneck is the device, not a GPU-heavy encoder.
The research-grade codec gains production engineering, enterprise posture, and commercial direction.
NVIDIA Inception, NATO BRAVE1, ZenLaunchpad CAD $30K, Atreides, SwissVault, RTX, and T-Mobile routes enter the proof register.
JAM+ZSTD compresses 135 GB to 17.2 GB, Jam demonstrates up to 100× backup-tier compression, and M2M TechConnect becomes the live paid customer.
Cithorum is positioned as an international company with strong standing in India and Canada, organised around Jam, Cithorum Cloud, and Knowledge Graph platforms.
The 1 PB cloud pod, Indian public-sector tender channel, Canada ITB prime route, medical grant optionality, and design-partner-led KGs become the operating plan.
Specific dates inside the 2019–2025 build window come from founder recollection. April and May 2026 milestones are documented in the proof archive.
