Rivet

Rivet is a company located in San Francisco, CA, specializing in gaming infrastructure. As a participant in Y Combinator’s W23 batch, Rivet offers managed game servers, matchmaking services, and DDoS mitigation tailored specifically for multiplayer game development. The company supports a variety of game engines and frameworks, including Godot, Unity, Unreal Engine, HTML5, and custom solutions. Rivet’s services feature cost-effective auto-scaling, fast deployment with no downtime, and streamlined collaboration tools. Additionally, they provide unified logging and monitoring, and allow customization of hardware, regions, and providers. Rivet’s infrastructure is open-source, encouraging developers to engage with and contribute to their platform. They maintain active communication with their user community through channels like Discord, Twitter, GitHub, YouTube, and LinkedIn, and offer various pricing plans to meet different developmental needs. Rivet is also recognized for powering games such as Apes.io, Ev.io, and Diep.io, with Ev.io winning the 2023 Best eSports & FPS Game by Gam3rs’ Choice Awards.