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Funding and backers

Total raised
$14.4M
1 round on record
Latest round
$14.4M
Convertible Note · Mar 2022 · 4 yr ago
Team
7
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · -78% in a year
Backers
2
Figment Capital, RockawayX
The money's age
Long since its last round
54 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
2025 Team shrank to 7 was 32 · US Form 5500 (plan participants) Mar 18, 2022 Raised a round Convertible Note $14.4M · SEC Form D 2021 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
GitHub stars
15 public repositories
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Convertible Note Mar 2022 $14.4M — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity RISC Zero, Inc. its site
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Frank LaubExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Brian RetfordExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Jeremy BruestleExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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Overview

Our Story Founded in 2021 to bring verifiable computation to the masses. How We Started RISC Zero was started in 2021, when we built the first verifiable computation system that supported Rust, C, or C++.

People

Frank Laub
Executive Officer, Director
Brian Retford
Executive Officer, Director
Jeremy Bruestle
Executive Officer, Director
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Seattle United States
HQ

Financials

Total raised
$14.4M
Latest round
Convertible Note
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Convertible Note 2022 $14.4M Details