Loren Larsen

About me

I wrote my first commercial software when I was seventeen. I founded a company called Velocity Soft and shipped a product called NewMonic — a memory-resident tool for spelling correction, stenography, and basic language translation. I've been building ever since.

Over the past three decades I've worked across networking, video, and AI — always gravitating toward hard infrastructure problems with real human stakes. I've been fortunate to work alongside brilliant engineers, designers, and product people at every step. None of the things we built were solo efforts — I've always been part of teams doing the hard work together.

The career arc, in broad strokes: I started at IBM building networking products and contributing to IEEE Ethernet standards. Then carrier-grade Ethernet platforms at World Wide Packets (deployed across AT&T, Virgin Media, Comcast). Then HD video streaming at Move Networks — where we helped invent adaptive bitrate streaming and built the player that powered Fox.com, ABC.com, and ESPN360. Then mobile video relay for the Deaf community at Sorenson Communications. Then AI-powered video interviewing as CTO at HireVue, where I led the team from $1M to $70M in revenue through a successful acquisition by the Carlyle Group.

Today I'm focused on AI in healthcare. I co-founded Videra Health, where we use AI and video to help clinicians proactively identify, triage, and monitor at-risk patients. I also co-founded Nomi Health, a direct healthcare company built to cut out unnecessary middlemen from care delivery.

I studied computer science at the University of Utah and Clemson University, where my graduate research with Mary Jean Harrold focused on program analysis and object-oriented software slicing. I was named to Utah's AI 100. I live in Salt Lake City with my family.

Publications

Full list on Google Scholar.

Patents

27 US patents spanning networking infrastructure, video streaming, and AI-powered assessment.

AI & Video Assessment

Competency-based Question Selection for Digital Evaluation Platforms · Performance Model Adverse Impact Correction · Model-assisted Evaluation and Intelligent Interview Feedback (3 patents) · Automatic Interview Question Recommendation and Analysis (2 patents) · Model-driven Candidate Sorting (3 patents) · Model-driven Evaluator Bias Detection · Model-driven Candidate Sorting Based on Audio Cues (2 patents)

Video & Streaming

Messaging Service for Providing Updates for Multimedia Content of a Live Event · System and Method of Minimizing Network Bandwidth Retrieved from an External Network

Networking & Infrastructure

Systems and Methods for Identifying an Access Port · Assigning Packets to a Network Service · Preventing Forwarding of a Packet to a Control Plane · Communicating an Operational State of a Transport Service · Portable Networking Interface Method for Distributed Switching (3 patents) · Forwarding Data Packets Having Tags Conforming to Different Formats · Altering Switch Behavior Based on Statistical Data · Network Switch Assembly and Method · Methods for Selecting an Aggregator Interface · Data Transmission Across a Link Aggregation (2 patents) · Self-tuning Link Aggregation System