ZeroRISC, a Boston-based cloud security startup, has raised $10 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round to accelerate the adoption of production-grade open source silicon security solutions built on OpenTitan designs.
Investment and Industry Support
The funding round was led by Fontinalis Partners, with participation from Fundomo, Analog Devices co-founder Ray Stata, SemiAnalysis founder Dylan Patel, SBXi, Chelpis, Bond Street LLC, and angel investors. This brings ZeroRISC’s total funding to $15 million.
Advancing Open Source Silicon Security
ZeroRISC’s solutions focus on silicon supply chain integrity, device management, and ownership control. The company was founded by members of the original OpenTitan team at Google, including CEO Dominic Rizzo.
Integrity Management Platform (IMP)
ZeroRISC’s Integrity Management Platform (IMP) enables device consumers to define security policies independently, rather than relying on manufacturers or operating system developers. The platform is designed to enhance transparency and reliability for data centers, industrial control systems (ICS), operational technology (OT), and IoT products.
Industry Perspective
Gabe Cunningham, partner at Fontinalis, emphasized the significance of ZeroRISC’s approach:
“ZeroRISC is executing on a classic Silicon Valley playbook—the founder of an open-source project launches a startup to bring the technology to a broader universe of enterprise customers. Commercial open silicon can enable a new generation of secure-by-default devices.”
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