To verify health and vaccination data for SEA maritime, Riverr raised US $1M seed funding

Ila Dhond19/02/2022

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Riverr, a Singapore-based digital platform that verifies health and immunisation data, has raised $1 million in initial funding from Kuok (Singapore) Limited’s venture arm, KSL Maritime Ventures, which is devoted to the incubation and commercial success of maritime technology firms.

Enterprise Singapore’s SEEDS Capital also took part as part of the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore’s S$50 million (US $37.15 million) co-investment initiative for maritime businesses.

Riverr, which will be launched in 2020, makes it easier to verify health data across organisations and governments while respecting individual privacy. Patient booking, health records, and payment gateways are among the company’s solutions, which may be white-labeled and integrated into current systems.

Furthermore, its online trust management platform can check all ten data standards for health records that are widely accepted throughout the world, bridging the gap between different systems.

Riverr is launching its platform in industries where cross-border human movements are more common, starting with marine. Secure solutions to digitally check the health information of sailors on a single ship with different nationalities, vaccinations, and medical records are considered to be lacking in the business.

Riverr allows ports authorities and other industry players to rapidly confirm a seafarer’s medical and immunisation records without having to keep or maintain the data themselves, according to Riverr.

Riverr will use the new cash to speed up its go-to-market strategy with healthcare providers in Singapore, the Philippines, India, and Indonesia.

Leading health clinics and labs, including Acumen Diagnostics, Eurofins Clinical Diagnostics, Healthway Medical Group, Minmed Group, and MiRXES, are using the company’s solution to secure the end-to-end process of verifying health data and records, which has seen a spike in attempted cyberattacks during the pandemic, according to the company.