Special CSL Social Hour, November 13, 2015

Welcome back! We are glad to have Adam Tilton as our guest speaker for this week’s social hour on Friday, November 13 at 3:15PM in 369 CSL. This special session is titled as “Starting a venture backed business”.

Rithmio_AdamTiltonBio: Adam Tilton is the Co-founder and CEO of Rithmio. While pursuing his PhD in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, Tilton and his co-founder Prashant Mehta created technology for pattern recognition and classification. When they discovered their technology enables gesture recognition for motion-sensing devices they started Rithmio. In 2014, Tilton won the Cozad New Venture Competition and was nominated for the Illinois Innovation Prize. In 2015, Tilton closed a $3mm round of funding from Intel Capital and KGC Capital.