Helping companies operate at their full potential.
AI has already shown how dramatically it can increase the productivity of an individual. We believe it can do the same for entire companies.
Rithmo exists to make increasingly capable enterprise agents possible, by providing the context infrastructure they need: a current, trusted understanding of the business that people and AI both work from.
We found the problem by trying to solve a bigger one.
We founded Rithmo in 2025 to bring AI’s step-change in individual productivity to entire companies.
Building it surfaced the constraint underneath everything else. A business changes through conversation, in meetings, threads, and calls, faster than its systems can record it. The documents, CRM fields, and playbooks an AI agent reads are often already out of date, and nothing tells the agent which parts it can still trust.
The infrastructure that closes that gap is exactly what an AI agent needs to take on real responsibility inside a company: a current, settled view of what the business has actually decided.
Which is the productivity question we started with, at the scale of an entire organization rather than one person.
Enterprise systems hold what was written down, not what is true today.
Documents, CRM fields, tickets, policies, contracts, and schemas are authored records. They matter, and they are not the whole picture. A business runs continuously: people decide, change direction, create exceptions, resolve ambiguity, and supersede what used to be true.
Agents given consequential work need both. Rithmo reconciles the recorded side of a business against its current resolved state. That is context infrastructure for AI agents: a foundation of agent reliability, and the part of AI agent governance that decides what information an agent is entitled to act on.
Across the company
Rithmo reconciles what a business has actually decided across the systems and conversations that never sync, so an agent is not left acting on whichever slice it happened to retrieve.
Current, not just recorded
Rithmo maintains what the business has actually decided, including what changed, who owns it, what evidence it rests on, and what it superseded.
Ready for AI action
Rithmo gives agents a current, trusted state to check against before they act, so they can be trusted with more, and lets them stop when the business has not actually resolved something.
A track record that predates Rithmo.
Built & sold
NanoThings
Founded 2016 · Acquired 2024
Tim founded the company and invented the NanoTag, the first smart label of its kind, a LoRa device with pharmaceutical-grade temperature monitoring and RSSI location tracking. Its insight was to keep the tag itself location-unaware and resolve position in the cloud from raw signal, so it needed no GPS or Wi-Fi and ran at a fraction of the cost and power. It was the first commercial device to turn raw RSSI into usable location, on a mechanically flexible, waterproof circuit thin enough to live on paper, cardboard, or plastic and cheap enough to throw away.
He built the manufacturing for it too: a hybrid printed-electronics line that fused two industries that had never met, commercial printing and semiconductor pick-and-place assembly, to produce a complex, fully functional device from a circuit printed on paper or polyimide film, something neither had done before. The hard part was never the software but the embedded system, firmware, and RF protocol; he took the LoRaWAN stack, broke it, and rebuilt it for the device, the same move he would later repeat on the wireless protocol behind the DoD system.
Systems architecture
Defense and life sciences
Tim architected a precision indoor asset-localization system deployed in U.S. Department of Defense environments, built on a custom multi-tier wireless protocol spanning edge devices, gateways, and cloud infrastructure. At its core was a neural network that resolved position from raw RSSI signal, learning location out of noisy radio where fixed math could not. It was AIoT before the term existed.
For life sciences he designed a mechanically flexible pharmaceutical smart label with real-time location awareness and two bidirectional radios, Bluetooth and LoRaWAN, certified to fly aboard commercial aircraft. Its onboard protocol adapted in real time, detecting flight, switching to store-and-forward, and continuously tuning power draw, memory, transmit strength, and retries to last a full journey on a label-sized battery. It is now used across major life-sciences supply chains.
Venture & governance
Investor, board member, and fund GP
Raghu spent more than a decade as an investor and board member across AI, enterprise software, IoT, and digital infrastructure. Companies he backed were acquired by Microsoft, Web.com, and YipitData, and another went public. He then became General Partner of a pre-seed fund, building a 22-company portfolio and the operating and governance systems that held it accountable.
That vantage is why he is building Rithmo. From a board seat, across dozens of companies at once, he watched how decisions actually get made, who owns them, and how quietly they get lost, which is the exact failure Rithmo exists to fix. At Rithmo, governance and operating discipline are not adjacent to the product; they are the product. Raghu spent a career installing that discipline in other people's companies, and now builds it into the layer that governs AI agents inside them.
The founders.
Tim Williams
Co-founder & CEO
Tim is a repeat founder and systems architect who has spent his career building complex technology products from the ground up.
He founded NanoThings in 2016, where he helped pioneer smart-label technology for cold-chain tracking and developed the NanoTag, a sticker-like wireless tracker and temperature monitor. NanoThings went through Plug and Play Silicon Valley in 2020 and was acquired in 2024.
Since then he has designed tracking and localization systems for U.S. Department of Defense and life-sciences applications, spanning smart labels, edge devices, gateways, wireless protocols, and cloud infrastructure.
Rithmo is the second company he has taken into Plug and Play, selected for its Enterprise AI accelerator in 2026.
Raghu Bharat
Co-founder & CTO
Raghu is a computer engineer by training and a technical founder who has spent his career building technology and working with companies from their earliest stages through major exits.
He began his career as an engineer at Nokia Siemens Networks, working on real-time signaling and handover behavior in carrier networks. He went on to spend more than a decade investing in and serving on the boards of technology companies across AI, enterprise software, IoT, and digital infrastructure. Companies he backed were later acquired by Microsoft, Web.com, and YipitData, and another completed a public offering.
He later became General Partner of a pre-seed venture fund, where he helped build a 22-company portfolio and the operating and governance systems behind it. He holds a BEng in Computer Science and Engineering and an MBA, both from McGill University.
What AI did for one person, at the scale of a company.
Companies should be able to give AI agents real responsibility across their operations, with people brought in where judgment is needed, not maintaining every agent’s context by hand.
Rithmo exists to help companies operate as close to their full potential as possible.