Our company
About Tercero.
Tercero Technologies is a defense-focused artificial intelligence startup founded in 2019 to focus on edge AI software and hardware research, development, and integration for intelligent sensors and autonomous vehicles.
We are particularly focused on how field programmable gate array (FPGA) technology can be used in edge AI applications for Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations (EMSO) in forward-deployed sensor systems and unmanned systems.
The team behind the technology
Our leadership.
Carl P. Evans III, JD, MBA
Founder
Carl is a roboticist and former Silicon Valley technology lawyer who returned to his technical roots to launch Tercero, an edge artificial intelligence startup. During his years as an engineer and engineering manager, Carl grew increasingly frustrated with the lack of progress in bringing hardware-accelerated machine learning and autonomy to commercial and defense embedded applications. So, like any entrepreneur would do, he left his job to launch a startup focused on solving that problem using field-programmable gate arrays, or FPGAs.
Prior to launching Tercero in 2019, Carl managed a 40-person off-road autonomous vehicle division of a midsize defense contractor, ran technical and legal operations for his previous technology startup, and practiced as an intellectual property and M&A lawyer in Silicon Valley and Chicago. In his legal practice, he advised technology startups and Fortune 500 technology companies on matters including commercial contracts, open-source licensing, and IP-related due diligence. He is also a registered patent attorney. Earlier in his engineering career, Carl participated in the first DARPA Grand Challenge autonomous vehicle competition and helped develop QinetiQ’s TALON robotic system.
Carl earned his MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, his law degree from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, his master’s degree with a focus in robotics and autonomous vehicles from the University of Florida’s Center for Intelligent Machines and Robotics, and his undergraduate degree in Electromechanical Engineering from Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston. He currently serves on the board of directors of the National Advanced Mobility Consortium (NAMC) and on the advisory board of Northwestern Law’s Bluhm Legal Clinic.