Ohad Harlev

CEO, LyteLoop

When scientist and entrepreneur Ohad Harlev was looking for new ways to store data in 2015, he thought his best idea was out of reach. Instead of keeping hard drives in a large data center, he wanted to store data by moving it back and forth between servers at the speed of light. Four years later, he has turned that dream into reality — and gone a step further.

Harlev’s company, LyteLoop, has developed technology to store data in motion, but not just between servers on Earth. It is planning to use photonics — the science of generating and harnessing light that undergirds technologies critical for everything from smartphones to lasers — to store data in space, by sending it back and forth between satellites.