Riven Systems
AI and autonomous laboratories for domestic mineral processing.
The product
Riven is building a chemical-intelligence platform for designing, scaling up, and operating critical-mineral processing facilities. The system combines autonomous laboratories, computational process and thermodynamic modeling, and AI to discover separation chemistry and translate it into plant-ready flowsheets.
The thesis
Critical minerals are only useful after difficult separation and refining steps, and Western supply chains lack much of that processing capacity. Riven's approach is intended to replace slow trial-and-error chemistry with automated experiments and models that can reduce development time, stage count, equipment requirements, reagent use, energy consumption, and ultimately the cost of new domestic processing capacity.
How it runs
Riven works with mineral owners and processors on their actual feedstocks and target flowsheets. Its self-driving lab runs large numbers of automated experiments, the results train computational and machine-learning models, and promising chemistries can then be validated with the industrial partner and carried into facility design and operation.
How it earns
Commercializes a hardware-enabled AI and autonomous-laboratory platform through enterprise pilots and partnerships that can expand into scaled, multi-site deployments for critical-mineral producers and miners.
Why it wins
Riven closes the loop between physical chemistry and computation: a self-driving mineral-separation lab generates proprietary experimental data, modeling and AI select promising conditions or molecules, and process-engineering work carries the result toward scale-up. That integrated discovery-to-operations scope is broader than a standalone lab-automation or modeling tool.
Evidence ledger
- Cerberus Ventures · 2026-08-13
August 13 stealth emergence, $7.9 million pre-seed, New York City headquarters, founders and industrial chemistry platform.
https://www.cerberus-ventures.com/perspectives/riven-systems-emerges-from-stealth-to-build-ai-platform-for-critical-minerals-processing - Riven Systems · 2026-10-08
Company describes autonomous laboratories, modeling and AI platform for processing facility design, scale-up and operations.
https://rivensystems.ai/ - Riven Systems · 2026-10-08
Official careers page lists New York City engineering and chemistry roles.
https://rivensystems.ai/careers/ - web · 2026-10-12
Codex-verified support for revenueModel: Riven calls its first product a platform for designing, scaling, and operating mineral-processing facilities. Its first-party commercial-lead posting explicitly describes pricing and packaging for a hardware-enabled platform, enterprise partnerships spanning services, infrastructure and technology, and conversion of pilots into multi-site deployments; the investor release identifies domestic miners and critical-mineral producers as the near-term market.
https://rivensystems.ai/careers/commercial-and-business-development-lead/
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