Rivan raises $34M
Rivan announced a Seed round of $34M on 20 April 2026. The company operates in Climate & Energy and is based in United Kingdom. It was founded by Harvey Hodd, Founder & CEO.
Founder
Harvey Hodd
Founder & CEO, Rivan
Outreach angles
- -Harvey Hodd is a serial founder whose last two companies Blueprint and Relo were acquired by Klaviyo in 2022 and Relay Commerce in 2024.
- -He pivoted from SaaS and ecommerce into deep tech climate, founding Rivan in 2024 to tackle European energy sovereignty with synthetic fuel.
- -Rivan's GBP 25M round led by IQ Capital with Plural brings in angels like Thomas Wolf of Hugging Face and Markus Villig of Bolt to scale a 1MW Wiltshire plant into Europe's largest synthetic gas facility.
Signals
SeedClimate TechDeep TechHardwareSecond-Time FounderB2B
Round details
Company: Rivan
Domain: rivan.com
Amount: $34M
Stage: Seed
Industry: Climate & Energy
Country: United Kingdom
Announced: 20 April 2026
Other Climate & Energy raises
Recently funded in United Kingdom