Rilla

The future of streaming is interactive, audience-driven, and deeply personalised. Rilla empowers rights holders with significant fandom to craft unique experiences while maintaining a global reach. From seamless native commerce to gamified engagement, we’re redefining how fans connect, interact, and transact.

Live streaming is running at a loss. → Streaming is not profitable. Dedicated sports streaming platforms typically generate modest profits or suffer significant losses. → Centralised Content Distribution Networks (CDNs) punish scale. A broadcaster's CDN costs for streaming rise linearly with every new user, driving up expenses as the audience increases in size. → The monetisation potential of streaming is being lost to third parties. The true value of streaming content is leaked to third-party platforms and social media where most interactions are happening. Rilla Network is unlocking the hidden potential of live streaming ecosystems while delivering exponential savings. → Peer-to-peer streaming saves cost Rilla is a low-risk, simple, peer-to-peer (P2P) integration into streaming ecosystems unlocking significant savings (60-90% lower CDN utilisation) while ensuring both data and content protection. → Peer-to-peer networks reimagine the content economy By optimising and incentivising P2P streaming, Rilla unlocks significant savings and creates an active audience ecosystem built on interactivity and transactability without significant marginal cost. → Recapture audience engagement We recapture audience participation and - in return - deliver highly customised experiences and rewards. Join us in reimagining live streaming.

Introducing our Head of Marketing, Tish Laubscher. Tish has over a decade of international experience telling compelling stories and delivering exponential results for global brands.

Introducing our General Counsel, Daniel Gilchrist, a commercial and intellectual property lawyer with global professional experience working for large, multinational companies across sports, technology and broadcasting sectors.

Introducing the newest member of our powerhouse team, Utku Demir. Joining Rilla Network as a specialist in building distributed systems and developer tooling, Utku has over a decade of international experience building software for startups.

Underpinning all of our Rilla Network CEO Hal Smith Stevens' innovative, entrepreneurial endeavours is his impressive rigour and an unshakeable belief that technology should be used to empower — not restrict — others.

A veteran of the media industry, our Rilla Network CCO?Justin Tomlinson’s global career in digital product delivery has spanned international live sports, broadcasting and digital experiences for renowned household brands. JT’s values-driven approach to business has secured him an impressive reputation and a rich network of strong, lifelong contacts in the industry.

For many watchers, the highly anticipated fight became filled with unanticipated video buffering. Further entrenching a flawed streaming model is not the solution.

With a deep background in AI, our CTO Pul Bandara specialises in building high-performing teams and designing innovative solutions to tackle complex engineering challenges. Underscoring his ambitious achievements is a highly pragmatic approach to problem-solving paired with a strong, purpose-driven work ethic.

Introducing our Founding Engineer, Dr Buddhika Laknath Semage. Joining the team as a specialist in reinforcement learning, Laknath brings over a decade of experience in machine learning, startups and academia.