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harvey hodd

T2 · manager / operator

Serial entrepreneur (first two companies were software) now building Rivan, a UK synthetic fuel startup that has built the largest synthetic natural gas plant in the UK and raised a £25M Series A led by IQ Capital to scale vertically integrated e-methane production for hard-to-abate industries.

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Rivan raises £25M Series A to scale vertically integrated synthetic fuel production

Rivan vertically integrates the entire synthetic fuel value chain — from off-grid renewable energy generation through electrolyzers, direct air capture, and reactor manufacturing — enabling the cheapest e-methane in history and a path to fossil fuel cost parity in Europe within 2-3 years.

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HIGHharvey hodd·Scaling Europe·5 months ago·Rivan raised a £25 million Series A: Harvey Hodd, founder at Rivan· position
Rivan raises £25M Series A to scale vertically integrated synthetic fuel production
Rivan vertically integrates the entire synthetic fuel value chain — from off-grid renewable energy generation through electrolyzers, direct air capture, and reactor manufacturing — enabling the cheapest e-methane in history and a path to fossil fuel cost parity in Europe within 2-3 years.
"Riven is a synthetic fuel producer and our aim is to produce synthetic fuels for any industries who can't electrify. So things like chemical, cement, steel, long-haul aviation, ro…"
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Energy & Power Generationtailwind
Synthetic fuels target hard-to-abate industries with drop-in fossil replacement
E-methane and synthetic natural gas can decarbonize chemical, cement, steel, long-haul aviation, and rocketry overnight as a chemically identical drop-in replacement, addressing sectors where batteries and direct electrification are physically impractical.
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Advanced Manufacturingtailwind
Vertical integration of hardware manufacturing unlocks speed and cost in climate tech
By manufacturing reactors, electrolyzers, and DAC systems in-house at a 20,000 sq ft London facility and new 50 MW/year 'Production Base One', Rivan converts energy production from a geo-locality constraint into an engineering manufacturing problem it fully controls, enabling rapid iteration and cost reduction.
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Geopolitics & Tradetailwind
European energy sovereignty drives demand for domestic synthetic fuel production
With 60-70% of UK energy imported and 60% of Europe's energy imported, synthetic fuel production using domestic renewables offers structural energy security against geopolitical supply shocks and price monopolies, creating a durable policy and commercial tailwind.