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

24.11.2025 ETH spinoff finalizes CHF 1.7M funding round (startupticker.ch)
31.07.2024 Ten cleantech startups prepare for Munich (startupticker.ch)
18.06.2024 Swiss startups earn accolades at home and abroad (startupticker.ch)

Milestones/News

01.01.2026 Team scaled to 6.6 FTEs across engineering, data and operations
01.12.2025 Launch of own cloud infrastructure to collect, elaborate and deliver data
01.11.2025 Hired Chief Business Officer
01.10.2025 Winning of Venture Kick stage 2
01.10.2025 Paid pilot with Alpiq
01.05.2025 Deployed satellite enabled sensors with scientists in Greenland, Spain, the USA, Canada, Chile and Thailand
01.05.2025 Paid pilot with Axpo
01.05.2025 Longest continuous deployment exceeds 24 months
01.04.2025 Hired Chief Technology Officer
01.02.2025 aiBooster with WWF
01.10.2024 Paid pilot with EWZ
18.06.2024 Winning of Venture Kick stage 1
01.06.2024 Onboarding for first cofounder
29.04.2024 Winning of polyPITCH
11.04.2024 First product delivered to client (EWZ)
05.12.2023 Winning of BRIDGE PoC
30.11.2023 Winning of Yvonne and Alberto Galbiati Stiftung
26.09.2023 First paid pilot project with EWZ
01.09.2023 Collaboration with the Canton of Ticino to install a sensor network on the Brenno river
31.08.2023 Third prototype built with LoRaWAN integration, database connection, and online platform visualization.
01.08.2023 Collaboration with EAWAG to install a sensor in the Rietholzbach
01.08.2023 13 Letters of Intent
01.05.2023 Collaboration with University of Lausanne to install sensor in Greenland and measure glacial ablation

Videos and Presentations


ETH News video showing the inception of Riverkin