Riven is a professional network for people with a work or university email. Student teams build real projects in the open with professors and company engineers as mentors, and companies hire from work they have already seen.
Sign-up asks for your name, work or university email, a password and your date of birth.
Faculty often learn that a team was stuck at the final review. On Riven, students join with your university’s email domain, each project keeps a progress log, and you can follow all of them from one place, early enough to step in.
The log, the mentors and the open roles live next to each other, so a project’s whole story is one click away.
Updates, milestones and blockers sit in one timeline per project, and each entry reaches the people who need it.
Teams ask professors and company engineers who have room. Each mentor’s limit is checked at the moment a team asks.
Companies post roles beside the projects they follow, and students apply with the resume saved on their profile.
Projects, mentors and hiring share one place on Riven. Here is what that changes for the people building, the people hiring and the people helping.
A transcript says you passed. A project on Riven shows how you think: the plan, the trial that failed and the fix that worked. Everything you build stays on your profile after the course ends, so it keeps working for you.
When a hiring team opens your application, your projects come with it. They read how you worked through a hard problem, which tells them more than a list of skills ever could.
Follow projects from the universities you recruit at and watch how a team handles a problem with no easy answer. When you post a role, applicants arrive with their projects attached, so your shortlist starts from evidence.
A team can lose weeks on a problem an experienced engineer solved years ago. On Riven, blockers go straight to the project’s mentors, and their advice stays in the log, where every team that follows the project can learn from it.
Riven only accepts work and university addresses. Your domain tells us which organization you belong to, so the people you meet here are who their profiles say they are.
You cannot sign up with Gmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo, iCloud, Proton or a throwaway inbox service.
If your domain belongs to an organization on Riven, you confirm where you work or study in one click. If it does not, you can ask an admin to add it.
Mentor, company and institution roles are requested in the app and reviewed by an admin. Until your affiliation is confirmed you can read everything, but you cannot post, comment or apply.
Type the address your company or university gave you. The check runs in your browser and nothing is sent.
Every project keeps a log of updates, milestones and blockers. Each kind of entry reaches different people, so the feed stays worth reading and the mentors hear first when a team is stuck.
Force-torque readings now stream to Parquet, so every grasp can be replayed offline.
Stays in the log for anyone following the project.
First stable grasp on a folded towel: 38 of 40 trials held.
Goes to the feed, where companies and the university see it.
The grasp planner diverges on thin deformables. Damping the contact model did not help.
Goes straight to the project’s mentors, who are the people able to help, and stays out of the feed.
Professors and company engineers decide whether to mentor and how many teams they will take on.
A request never reaches a mentor who is already full, even when two teams ask at the same moment.
A student, professor or company opens a project.
Students apply, or the project’s managers invite them.
The team asks a professor or engineer who has room.
Milestones and launches reach the feed, where companies follow them.
Anyone 18 or over with a work or university email address. New accounts start as students, and other roles are requested from inside the app.
Riven reads your email domain to tell which company or university you belong to. That lets an organization confirm its own people without paperwork, and it keeps anonymous accounts out.
For now you need one to join. If your university gives students an email account, sign up with that address.
Sign up with its email anyway. Inside the app you can ask for your organization to be added, and an admin reviews the request.
You set its visibility, and the database checks that setting on every request.
A team asks from the professors and company engineers who have opted in. Each mentor’s capacity is checked at the moment the team asks.
You can export everything Riven holds about you, saved jobs included, or delete your account from your privacy settings.
Every request runs under the identity of the person making it, and Postgres decides what they can read. A bug in the interface cannot show someone data the database would refuse them.
Sign-up turns away personal providers, and each person’s domain links them to their organization.
Postgres policies decide which rows each person can read, so a page that hides a link is a convenience on top of that check.
Mentor, company and institution roles come by invitation or an admin-reviewed request. Nobody can be invited as an admin.
Consent Age and privacy consent are recorded at sign-up, and you can see and manage both in your settings.
How access worksBring your company or your university. All you need to start is the email you work from.