Where does Adam Tilton work?

Adam Tilton is Founder of Driver and Co-founder at Rithmio.

What companies did Adam Tilton found?

Adam Tilton founded Driver, Rithmio.

Where did Adam Tilton go to school?

Adam Tilton studied at Y Combinator; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Engineering); University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (B.S., Mechanical Engineering).

Adam Tilton

Founder

Founder at Driver · Founder at Rithmio

Austin, Texas, United States

FoundedDriver · YC Rithmio

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827 people in our graph share verified history with Adam — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

Chiraag DeoraunlockedAdam: together at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2008–2012)

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Adam: together at Ocient

Adam: together at Nike

About

Adam Tilton previously co-founded Aktive, an embedded machine learning platform acquired by Nike in 2019, and Rithmio, acquired by Bosch Sensortec in 2017. He holds degrees from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in mechanical engineering, computer science, and control and estimation.

Founder at Driver YC W24

Intro paths

Adam went through Y Combinator (Winter 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

Their group partner at YC was Tom Blomfield, Monzo and GoCardless co-founder; Y Combinator partner on leave and Anthropic compute-team member. — the partner who ran Driver's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Adam can intro founders to Driver's investors below.

Driver's investors · 1

Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2024

Co-founders at Driver

Daniel HensleyFounder

Founder at Rithmio

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Rithmio's investors · 5

Fox VenturesChampaign · $50K – $250K checks Hyde Park Venture PartnersChicago · $500K – $3M checks Illinois VenturesChampaign National Science FoundationAlexandria · since 2016 Serra VenturesChampaign · $5M checks

Co-founders at Rithmio

Prashant G. MehtaExecutive Officer, Director, Promoter

Experience

DriverCo-Founder & CEOcurrent2023 — presentAustin, Texas, United States
LevelsSignal Processing Lead2022 — 2023Austin, Texas, United States
NikeFellow, Sr. Dir. of Connected Product Software2019 — 2022
Aktive, Inc.Co-Founder & CEO2018 — 2019Chicago
OcientVice President2017Greater Chicago Area
RithmioCEO and Co-founder2013 — 2016Greater Chicago Area
University of Illinois - Coordinated Science LaboratoryGraduate Research Assistant2010 — 2014Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
University of Illinois - Coordinated Science LaboratoryUndergraduate Research Assistant2009 — 2010Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
National Science FoundationI-Corps Entrepreneurial Lead2013San Francisco Bay Area/Silicon Valley Node

Skills & more

Start-ups18Entrepreneurship30Wearable Computing9Machine Learning14Signal Processing11Numerical Analysis3Algorithms6Robotics2Simulations5Mathematical Modeling3Matlab22Python12

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Adam Tilton?: Adam Tilton previously co-founded Aktive, an embedded machine learning platform acquired by Nike in 2019, and Rithmio, acquired by Bosch Sensortec in 2017. He holds degrees from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in mechanical engineering, computer science, and control and estimation.
Where does Adam Tilton work?: Adam Tilton is Founder of Driver and Co-founder at Rithmio.
What companies did Adam Tilton found?: Adam Tilton founded Driver, Rithmio.
Where did Adam Tilton go to school?: Adam Tilton studied at Y Combinator; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Engineering); University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (B.S., Mechanical Engineering).