ZeroRISC
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$15M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$10M
Seed · Jun 2025 · 16 mo ago
Team
12
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · -14% in a year
Hiring now
3
open roles
Backers
2
Cambridge Angels, Fontinalis Partners
The money's age
Due for its next round
16 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
25/100
a new city, in the news
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jun 11, 2025
Raised a round Seed $10M · led by Fontinalis Partners · YahooFinance
Aug 1, 2023
Raised a round Venture round $5M · SEC Form D
2023
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | Jun 2025 | $10M | Fontinalis Partners lead, Fontinalis Partners lead | YahooFinance |
| Venture round | Aug 2023 | $5M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | zeroRISC Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Dominic RizzoExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Cambridge Angels 
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How ZeroRISC hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
ZeroRISC scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 3 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
News
zeroRISC, Nuvoton and Winbond Join Forces to Deliver the First Commercial Product Based on the OpenTitan Open-Source Secure Silicon Platform
Design And Reuse - Catalog of IP Cores and Silicon on Chip solutions for IoT, Automotive, Security, RISC-V, AI, ... and Asic Design Platforms and Resources
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ZeroRISC and Leading Research Institutions Deliver Production-Grade Post-Quantum Cryptography for Open Silicon
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ZeroRISC and Leading Research Institutions Deliver Production-Grade Post-Quantum Cryptography for Open Silicon
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Censys Co-founder Zakir Durumeric and Seasoned Investor David Gammon Join ZeroRISC's Board of Directors
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ZeroRISC Gets $10 Million Funding, Says Open-Source Silicon Security 'Inevitable'
ZeroRISC expands access to production-grade, OpenTitan-based security for everything from IoT to data centers.
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ZeroRISC raises $10M to expand open-source silicon security platform
ZeroRISC raises $10M to expand open-source silicon security platform - SiliconANGLE
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ZeroRISC Closes $10 Million in Seed Funding Led by Fontinalis to Accelerate Commercial Adoption of Open-Source Silicon for Secure Devices
BOSTON, June 11, 2025--ZeroRISC announced the close of its oversubscribed seed round with $10 million in new funding, led by Fontinalis Partners.
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zeroRISC Successfully Implements Post-Quantum Cryptographic Algorithm for Firmware Signing in Chip Provisioning Platform
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zeroRISC, Nuvoton and Winbond Join Forces to Deliver the First Commercial Product Based on the OpenTitan Open-Source Secure Silicon Platform
Design And Reuse - Catalog of IP Cores and Silicon on Chip solutions for IoT, Automotive, Security, RISC-V, AI, ... and Asic Design Platforms and Resources
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zeroRISC Launches with $5 Million in Seed Funding to Deliver First Commercial OpenTitan-based Cloud Security Service for Silicon
Funding round led by Cambridge Angels and other private investors; Nuvoton becomes first commercial integration partner; Company joins OpenTitan project zeroRISC today formally launched with $5
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at ZeroRISC over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
11
Postings analysed
3
Stack modernity
71/100
Languages
Python
Go
SystemVerilog
Frameworks & libraries
UVM
Cloud & platforms
AWS
Azure
GCP
Kubernetes
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Full ZeroRISC tech stack
11 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
People
Dominic Rizzo
Executive Officer, Director
Zakir Durumeric
Director
Gavin Ferris
Director
Robert Mullins
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
39/100
Slowing
Open positions
3
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
67% ▼
Hardware
33% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: Bristol
Oct 2026
Removed Rest API from stack
Sep 2026
Added Rest API to stack
Sep 2026
Added PKI to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
3
Countries
2
Busiest office
Boston
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HQ
3 open roles 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Backend, Hardware
London
United Kingdom
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2 open roles 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Backend
Bristol
United Kingdom
1 open roles 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff
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Jobs
≈ $109k – $214k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Boston
Python
Go
GCP
Azure
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Cybersecurity
PKI
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≈ $91k – $177k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • 6+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • London
Python
Go
GCP
Azure
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Cybersecurity
PKI
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≈ $100k – $193k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • 4+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Boston • Bristol
Python
SystemVerilog
UVM
Formal Verification
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