Real-time river data, as usable as weather data
Riverkin AG
Incorporated
09.04.2024Headquarters
ZurichSupport
Riverkin is building the real-time data infrastructure for rivers and watersheds. Today, flood and sediment risks are managed using sparse, delayed monitoring that fails to capture fast-changing river dynamics, leaving critical infrastructure and capital exposed. Riverkin turns rivers into continuously observable systems by delivering trusted, analysis-ready data at basin scale. This allows infrastructure operators to prevent asset damage, manage water-related risk proactively, and meet regulatory requirements. As this proprietary dataset scales, it forms a compounding data moat that enables more accurate predictive and AI-driven water risk models, unlocking global commercial applications across infrastructure, insurance, and climate risk markets.
News
Riverkin, Orthosens and Tinamu win pitching competitions at START Summit 2026 (startupticker.ch)
Riverkin secures CHF 1.7M to expand pilots in priority watersheds (venturelab.swiss)
ETH spinoff finalizes CHF 1.7M funding round (startupticker.ch)
Swisstech with 26 startups take active role at SLUSH 2025 (startupticker.ch)
Ten cleantech startups selected for Climate Collider in the US (startupticker.ch)
IMD Startup competition announces 27th edition winners (startupticker.ch)
Venture Leaders Cleantech 2024: Captain's blog by Markus Aicheler, CEO of SolidWatts (venturelab.swiss)
Venture Leaders Cleantech build global connections on Munich Roadshow (venturelab.swiss)
InnoBooster startups address health and environmental issues (startupticker.ch)
MassChallenge Switzerland 2024 Awards recognizes four Swiss Startups (startupticker.ch)
Riverkin: The Venture Leader Cleantech offering high-resolution freshwater data (venturelab.swiss)
The Venture Leaders Cleantech 2024 kick-off their Munich roadshow (venturelab.swiss)
A premier award and tickets to advance with industry players (startupticker.ch)
Ten cleantech startups prepare for Munich (startupticker.ch)
Erfahrene Expertinnen und Experten verstärken Startup-Management (startupticker.ch)
Venture Leaders Cleantech 2024: Munich roadshow opens doors for 10 high-potential startups (venturelab.swiss)
Swiss startups earn accolades at home and abroad (startupticker.ch)
21 Swiss startups join MassChallenge Switzerland 2024 Cohort (startupticker.ch)
Milestones news
Team scaled to 6.6 FTEs across engineering, data and operations
Launch of own cloud infrastructure to collect, elaborate and deliver data
Secured CHF 1.7M equity round to expand pilots in priority watersheds (Venturelab announcement)
Hired Chief Business Officer
Winning of Venture Kick stage 2
Paid pilot with Alpiq
Deployed satellite enabled sensors with scientists in Greenland, Spain, the USA, Canada, Chile and Thailand
Paid pilot with Axpo
Longest continuous deployment exceeds 24 months
Hired Chief Technology Officer
aiBooster with WWF
Paid pilot with EWZ
Winning of Venture Kick stage 1
Onboarding for first cofounder
Winning of polyPITCH
First product delivered to client (EWZ)
Winning of BRIDGE PoC
Winning of Yvonne and Alberto Galbiati Stiftung
First paid pilot project with EWZ
Collaboration with the Canton of Ticino to install a sensor network on the Brenno river
Third prototype built with LoRaWAN integration, database connection, and online platform visualization.
Collaboration with EAWAG to install a sensor in the Rietholzbach
13 Letters of Intent
Collaboration with University of Lausanne to install sensor in Greenland and measure glacial ablation
