Rivet Gaming, Inc.
Infrastructure for 'software that thinks,' enabling composable, stateful compute for AI agents, collaborative apps, and durable execution.
At a Glance
- AI Agent Developers
- Startup Founders (YC, a16z)
- Game Developers
- Infrastructure Engineers
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Products & Services
Managed infrastructure for deploying Rivet Actors and agentOS with global edge networking.
Primitives for stateful workloads with in-memory state, infinite scaling, and idle hibernation.
Lightweight open-source OS for AI agents built on WASM and V8, optimized for cost and security.
Durable execution primitives for long-running backend workloads.
Market Position
Open-source alternative to Cloudflare Durable Objects and Redis; focuses on developer-centric local development and self-hostability without cloud lock-in.
Leadership
Founders
Nicholas Kissel
Co-Founder & CEO of Rivet. Previously a Product Manager at Paradox.ai (AI HR solutions) and Addicting Games (multiplayer games like Apes.io). Studied at the University of Arizona.
Nathaniel Flurry
Co-Founder of Rivet. Previously built infrastructure for games like Krunker.io (15M MAU) while in high school. Apple WWDC scholar (2016-2018) and featured in TechCrunch for his visual programming language.
Executive Team
Nicholas Kissel
Co-Founder & CEO
Background in gaming product management at Addicting Games and AI HR solutions at Paradox.ai.
Nathaniel Flurry
Co-Founder & CTO
Expert in high-scale gaming infrastructure and visual programming; former Apple WWDC scholar.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
Started by high school friends Nicholas Kissel and Nathaniel Flurry who launched multiplayer games together. They built a game studio with 4 games and an acquisition, then founded Rivet to make building accessible infrastructure for realtime apps easier.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Managed cloud usage (usage-based pricing) and enterprise support, with the core platform being open-source (Apache 2.0).
Pricing Tiers
Includes $5.00/mo free credit for managed services.
50% off Rivet Cloud for YC and a16z Speedrun companies.
Pay for coordination and state; compute billed by chosen cloud provider.
Target Markets
- AI Agent Developers
- Startup Founders (YC, a16z)
- Game Developers
- Infrastructure Engineers
- AI Agents
- Real-time Collaborative Apps
- Durable Backend Workloads
- Multiplayer Games
- Edge-deployed services
- Apes.io
- Krunker.io
- Various YC and a16z Speedrun startups