Founded 2025
Founders Michael Stanway, CEO Joe Griffith, CTO

The Compression Company is solving the downlink bottleneck in Earth Observation by building bespoke AI compression for every sensor.


Founders

Michael
Stanway

CEO

Michael holds a BSc in Maths and Physics from Scotland’s #1 University and a Master of Research from Imperial College London, where he worked on novel methods for keeping brains alive outside the body.

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Joe
Griffith

CTO

Joe spent 5 years designing novel neuro-inspired ML algorithms for AI compression at world-leading university, Imperial College London. He holds 2 Master’s in AI and dropped out of his PhD to deploy his research commercially.

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