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Our Story

Founded in 2021 to revolutionize Web3.

How We Started

How We Started
RISC Zero was started in 2021 to tackle the biggest challenge to our industry, and potentially our society — increased centralization and consolidation of not just the applications we use but the infrastructure we use to build and manage them.

Our Purpose

Our Purpose
RISC Zero is bringing general-purpose computing to the zero-knowledge ecosystem — enabling users to trust programs run anywhere while allowing developers to use the tools they already know and love.

What We Do

What We Do
We're a diverse group of hackers, futurists, and nerds dedicated to making the internet the place we all deserve. We've already built the world's first zkVM capable of running arbitrary code as a zero-knowledge proof. We're now building an ecosystem on top of it. Join us.

Made up of Team Members Previously At

Amazon

Chainsafe

Coinbase

Google

Intel

Meta

Microsoft

Mina Foundation

O(1) Labs

Ripple

SoFi

Uber

Leadership

Jeremy Bruestle

Jeremy Bruestle

Co-founder | CEO

Frank Laub

Frank Laub

Co-founder | CTO

Manasi Vora

Manasi Vora

VP of Growth

Tim Carstens

Tim Carstens

Principal Engineer

Brett Carter

Brett Carter

VP of Product

Shiv Shankar

Shiv Shankar

VP of Engineering

Kevin Nassery

Kevin Nassery

VP of Security

Joe Restivo

Joe Restivo

SVP of Operations

Nicole Doyle

Nicole Doyle

VP of People Ops

Chuck Kimble

Chuck Kimble

Head of BD