Harvey Hodd, founder at Rivan: Rivan raised a £25 million Series A

Rivan has just raised a £25 million Series A to scale its synthetic fuel technology, after building and operating the UK’s largest synthetic natural gas plant in under a year.Harvey Hodd, Founder at Rivan, shares how the company built and proved its first plant and is now focused on scaling manufacturing to bring synthetic fuels into the grid at costs that compete with fossil fuels.The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel - check them out here:https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjkSponsors:SurrealDB: The multi-model database for AI agents. Check them out here: https://surrealdb.com/Timestamps:0:00 - Introduction0:22 - £25m Series A announcement0:52 - From hypothesis to working plant2:11 - What Rivan is building4:38 - Customer demand and commercial model6:06 - Energy markets and European context8:54 - Competing with fossil fuels10:10 - Building fast in hardware12:45 - Scaling manufacturing and new facility14:08 - Deployment timelines16:12 - Fundraising and investors17:56 - Challenges and execution19:02 - Building hardware vs software