Drill & Fasten
Robotic drilling and fastening control.
Aircraft Assembly
Rivetira
Autonomous operations layer for aircraft structural and final assembly — robotic drilling and fastening, AI hole and FOD inspection, predictive shimming.
Overview
What Rivetira does.
Rivetira closes the loop on aircraft structural and final assembly: robotic drilling and fastening, hole and fastener inspection, alignment and predictive shimming, seal and join, line and takt, robotics and quality and conformance, and the as-built twin.
Every aircraft deployment produces labelled join and inspection traces that train the next model, tightening the loop from structure to final assembly.
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Stage | Seed |
| Category | Physical AI |
| Year | 2026 |
| Website | rivetira.com |
| Headquarters | Not disclosed |
| Raised | $2M |
| Investor | 10xC |
| Model | Per-cell software subscription with a conformance-outcome component. |
| Measured by | First-pass join conformance, rework tickets, hole and FOD escape rate, cells expanded per customer. |
Products
One loop, module by module.
Every deployment on rivetira.com writes labelled traces back into the model, so the system generalises across plants, alloys, grades and geometries.
Hole & Fastener Inspection
AI hole and fastener inspection.
Align & Shim
Alignment and predictive shimming.
Seal & Join
Seal and join control.
Line & Takt
Line and takt orchestration.
Robot & Handling
Robotics and handling across the line.
Quality & Conformance
Quality and airworthiness conformance.
Why we invested
The thesis behind Rivetira.
Aircraft assembly is a conformance business where a hole drilled off-spec becomes a rework ticket that costs days, and FOD in a join is found at the final gate. Backlog is long and skilled hands are scarce.
Rivetira moves hole control and inspection into software with an airworthiness-grade audit trail. The buyer is an airframer or tier-one paying in hard currency; the wedge is one drilling or inspection step, and first-pass join conformance is the number that opens the next module.
Who is building it
Ilse Vandermeer
Co-Founder & CEOIlse owns the airframer relationships, the pilot programme and the commercial model.
Tobias Ferrand
Co-Founder & CTOTobias owns the drilling and inspection models, the edge runtime and the airworthiness audit architecture.
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