What it sells
Rivet Actors are the primitive for stateful workloads
Business model breakdown
Buyer: who owns the budget?
UnverifiedEngineering leads / CTOs at AI-agent and app-builder startups; enterprise platform teams for BYOC.
Trigger: what makes them buy now?
UnverifiedNeed durable, stateful, low-cold-start backends per agent or per user, and want an open-source alternative to Cloudflare Durable Objects or Temporal.
Workflow: what inputs become what output?
Define Actors (long-lived stateful processes with realtime and scheduling), agents and workflows via open-source library, deploy on Rivet Cloud, BYOC or self-host.
Economics: what it saves and how it charges
Usage-based cloud (awake actor hours, storage, reads/writes, egress, compute per vCPU-second) on top of plan fees; open-source core with paid Enterprise Edition.
Distribution: how it reaches customers
Open source with self-serve dashboard signup, docs and guides; YC/a16z Speedrun startup deal (50% off 12 months); sales for enterprise.
Funding history and coverage
| Round date | Stage | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Y Combinator Winter 2023 | — | Y Combinator | ycombinator.com |
Profiles summarize public reporting and company websites. Business-model notes are MaxBC's reading of that material, not confirmed facts; unknowns are left blank rather than guessed. Updated 2026-10-12.