ZeroRisk
ZeroRisk gives banks and payment providers a unified view of cyber risk and compliance across their merchant portfolios.
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ZeroRisk is a Dublin-headquartered cybersecurity and compliance company (with an additional Irish site in Longford and a US office in Atlanta, GA) that gives banks and payment providers a single consolidated view of cyber risk across their merchant portfolios. Its platform combines risk monitoring, compliance tracking, merchant education, guided remediation, and protection services in one product.
Founded in 2023 by Gary Nolan (CEO), Francesco Consiglio (CTO), and Marco Borza, ZeroRisk has named clients including Bank of America, Global Payments, Checkout.com, and Trust Payments. A €3.8M round in early 2025 was followed by a $10M Series A in September 2026 (led by MiddleGame Ventures, with Elkstone participating) tied to further international expansion and 80 announced new jobs in Longford.
Innovation Matrix Assessment
Consolidates existing risk-monitoring/compliance functions into one platform rather than introducing a fundamentally new technique.
Named, credible enterprise clients (Bank of America, Global Payments, Checkout.com) indicate real production use.
Two funding rounds in 18 months plus aggressive, publicly announced hiring plans (120 combined new roles).
Merchant risk/compliance aggregation is a real need but an incremental evolution of existing GRC/vendor-risk tooling.
Named blue-chip payment-industry customers support real-world deployment, though no independent efficacy study is public.
Merchant risk oversight is a durable regulatory need for payment providers, tied to ongoing PCI/compliance obligations.
Why CISOs Should Care
Gives payment-provider risk teams portfolio-wide visibility into merchant cyber risk instead of manual, per-merchant compliance reviews.
What Makes It Different
Combines risk monitoring, compliance, merchant education, and guided remediation in one platform purpose-built for payment-provider merchant portfolios.
The Matrix Verdict
58/100 — INCREMENTAL INNOVATOR
A well-funded, customer-validated player in a specific regulatory niche (merchant/payment risk), growing steadily rather than disrupting the category outright.
Editorial Note: Claims vs. Verified Findings
The projected "threefold revenue growth in 2026" is a company-stated forward projection, not an independently verified financial result.
Sources
- Irish cyber and compliance company ZeroRisk raises $10m — Silicon Republic — https://www.siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/irish-cyber-and-compliance-company-zerorisk-raises-10m
- Cybersecurity company ZeroRisk raises $10m — RTE — https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2026/0909/1590887-cybersecurity-company-zerorisk-raises-10m-in-funding/
- ZeroRisk raises $10 million — PRNewswire — https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/zerorisk-raises-10-million-to-scale-merchant-cybersecurity-platform-302872548.html
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