RiscZero

formerly RISC Zero

RiscZero is a crypto & web3 company in Seattle, United States, founded in 2021. It has raised $54.0M across 3 rounds, most recently a $40.0M Series A in July 2023.

Unlock the full potential of ZK on every chain.

Employees
51–200
Founded
2021
Business Model
B2B
Total Funding
$54.0M
Last Round
$40.0M Series AJul 2023
Rounds
3

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About

RISC Zero is a Seattle-based zero-knowledge infrastructure company that builds the world's first open-source, general-purpose zero-knowledge Virtual Machine (zkVM), enabling developers to write verifiable software in familiar languages like Rust and C++. The company's flagship product allows arbitrary programs to be compiled to the RISC-V instruction set and executed with cryptographic ZK-STARK proofs, guaranteeing correctness of computation without revealing inputs. RISC Zero also offers Bonsai, a cloud-based proving service providing blockchain-agnostic zk-proving at scale for enterprise and Web3 applications.

Summary

It lists 51–200 employees. It has raised $54.0M in total across 3 rounds, most recently a $40.0M Series A round in Jul 2023. Investors include Bain Capital Crypto, Blockchain Capital and Geometry.

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Funding History

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Series ASeries AJul 2023
$40.0M

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Investors

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