Riverside at a glance
Question | Answer | As of |
|---|---|---|
Who owns Riverside? | Its founders, staff and investors led by Oren Zeev and Seven Seven Six; it is private | Nov 2026 |
ARR | More than $100 million | Oct 29, 2026 |
Valuation | Not disclosed | — |
Funding | $80 million in four rounds | Dec 2024 |
Users | 2.3 million creators, 16 million guests, 40 million conversations | Oct 2026 |
Employees | About 160–170 at the last company count; outside estimates say far more in 2026 | Dec 2024 |
CEO | Nadav Keyson, co-founder | Nov 2026 |
Founded | 2020, by Nadav and Gideon Keyson | 2020 |
Headquarters | Palo Alto, California, with research and development in Tel Aviv | 2026 |
Riverside records each participant locally in high quality, so remote podcasts and video interviews look and sound like studio recordings, then edits, clips and publishes them. It began as a podcast recorder and now covers livestreams, webinars, newsletters, social scheduling and AI editing agents. Apple, Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Spotify and The New York Times use it.
Riverside passes $100 million ARR (October 29, 2026)
“News! Riverside crossed $100M ARR,” Nadav Keyson posted on LinkedIn on October 29, 2026, adding that it serves 2.3 million creators and that 42% of Apple’s top 100 podcasts use it. “Next milestone: $1B ARR and we’re 10% there” (LinkedIn). Three days earlier Riverside had launched a team of AI agents for video: a producer, editor, clipper and marketer (Riverside).
Riverside.fm is now Riverside
In May 2026 the company dropped the “.fm”: riverside.fm now redirects to riverside.com, a domain it bought in 2025. “We didn’t change the name for a new identity. We changed it because the old one had become too small,” Keyson said (PR Newswire). A month later Riverside 2.0 added newsletters, social scheduling, in-person multicam recording and an MCP server (Riverside).
Who owns Riverside?
Riverside is private. The Keyson brothers and staff own it alongside its investors: Oren Zeev led the seed, the Series B and, through Zeev Ventures, the Series C; Alexis Ohanian’s Seven Seven Six led the Series A; Lachy Groom and Sam Lessin also invested, and creators such as Casey Neistat and Marques Brownlee invested as angels.
What is Riverside’s revenue?
More than $100 million in annual recurring revenue as of October 29, 2026, the only ARR figure Riverside has published. In December 2024 it was not yet profitable and aimed to be by the end of 2026 (TechCrunch); it hasn’t said since.
Riverside ARR (annual recurring revenue)
Date | ARR | Said by |
|---|---|---|
Oct 29, 2026 | $100M+ | Nadav Keyson |
2020 | Hoped for $4,000 a month in revenue | The founders, recalling the launch |
Riverside MRR (monthly recurring revenue)
Riverside doesn’t publish MRR. $100 million ARR works out to about $8.3 million a month (our calculation).
How much has Riverside raised? Funding and valuation
$80 million in four rounds, the company says, although the announced rounds add up to $77 million. Riverside has never disclosed a valuation; at the Series C Keyson said only that it had gone up.
Round | Date | Amount | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|
Series C | Dec 9, 2024 | $30M | Zeev Ventures, with Seven Seven Six and Sam Lessin |
Series B | Apr 26, 2022 | $35M (Globes) | Oren Zeev, with Lachy Groom and Seven Seven Six |
Series A | Apr 22, 2021 | $9.5M (TechCrunch) | Seven Seven Six, with Zeev Ventures and creator angels |
Seed | Nov 5, 2020 | $2.5M (PR Newswire) | Oren Zeev |
Riverside operates in the US as RiversideFM, Inc. and in Israel as Riverside.FM Ltd. (Riverside).
What does Riverside do? Products
The brothers first built Debater.tv, a platform for online political debates, then turned its technology into a podcast recorder. They launched it in spring 2020, just as COVID lockdowns began: “We had great timing,” Gideon Keyson said (CTech).
Date | Launch |
|---|---|
Oct 26, 2026 | Riverside Agents: producer, editor, clipper and marketer agents |
Jun 30, 2026 | Riverside 2.0: newsletters, social scheduling, multicam, MCP (TechCrunch) |
May 20, 2026 | Renamed Riverside; moves to riverside.com |
Aug 2025 | Co-Creator, an AI editing agent |
Feb 12, 2024 | Integration with Spotify for Podcasters (TechCrunch) |
Jul 2023 | Magic Clips, AI short clips (Riverside) |
Apr 2022 | iPad app; Anchor partnership |
Apr 2021 | iPhone app |
Spring 2020 | Launch |
Riverside pricing
Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly |
|---|---|---|
Free | $0 | — |
Pro | $29 | $24 a month |
Grow | $39 | $34 a month |
Webinar | $99 | $79 a month |
Business | Contact sales | — |
Pro adds 4K recording and the AI editing agent; Grow adds livestreaming, newsletters and social scheduling (Riverside).
Riverside vs Descript, StreamYard and Zencastr
Descript, which bought the rival remote recorder SquadCast in 2023 (Sounds Profitable), is Riverside’s closest competitor in recording and editing. StreamYard, the livestreaming studio Hopin sold for $250 million (The Pragmatic Engineer), now belongs to Bending Spoons. Zencastr, Restream and Podcastle also compete.
Who is the CEO of Riverside?
Nadav Keyson, who co-founded Riverside with his younger brother Gideon, its CTO. They grew up in Amsterdam, the sons of parents who met at Tel Aviv University, and built Riverside’s first version as Gideon’s coding-bootcamp project (CTech).
Person | Role |
|---|---|
Nadav Keyson | Co-founder and CEO |
Gideon Keyson | Co-founder; CTO, also described as chief product officer |
Abel Grünfeld | VP of marketing |
Nadav Keyson’s bio and contact routes: Riverside CEO Nadav Keyson: email, LinkedIn and bio.
Where is Riverside based?
Riverside says it is headquartered in Palo Alto, California; its research and development is in Tel Aviv, and many staff work remotely (PR Newswire). It had seven employees in 2020, about 100 in 2022 and roughly 160–170 in December 2024, the last figure it gave.
Key events
Date | Event |
|---|---|
Oct 29, 2026 | Passes $100M ARR |
Oct 26, 2026 | Riverside Agents |
Jun 30, 2026 | Riverside 2.0 |
May 20, 2026 | Renamed Riverside; moves to riverside.com |
Dec 9, 2024 | $30M Series C |
Apr 26, 2022 | $35M Series B |
Apr 22, 2021 | $9.5M Series A |
Nov 5, 2020 | Out of stealth with a $2.5M seed |
2020 | Founded and launched by Nadav and Gideon Keyson |
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