Top Risk Management Startups in 2027

Elementum builds intuitive, mobile-first apps to help companies streamline procurement, logistics, and manufacturing operations. Powered by the world’s first product graph™, Elementum provides a complete picture of the global product economy for smarter, more proactive supply chains. Customers get actionable insights and early warning signals to assign, collaborate on, and resolve issues--wherever, whenever.

UpGuard is a complete third-party risk and attack surface management platform. Our security ratings engine monitors millions of companies every day. VendorRisk enables UpGuard's enterprise customer to control third-party risk and improve their cyber security posture by monitoring, rating and sending targeted security questionnaires to its vendors. upguard.com/product/vendorrisk UpGuard's BreachSight continuously monitors businesses for data exposures, enabling them to prevent breaches, protect their reputation and avoid regulatory fines. upguard.com/product/breachsight Companies in regulated industries such as financial services, energy and health count on UpGuard daily to guarantee their systems. UpGuard.com

Fama is the innovator in online screening that makes hiring great people easy. Combining Fama’s groundbreaking AI technology and ability to integrate across the HR Tech stack, the solution compliantly searches over 10,000 online public sources to help companies avoid workplace misconduct, prevent costly legal action and ultimately, make better decisions. By modernizing candidate screening and due diligence, Fama helps organizations, agencies, and investors improve the quality of hires, make the most of each investment and build successful businesses. Headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, Fama has raised over $30M and is backed by some of the world’s leading venture capitalists and institutional investors. We’re FCRA, EEOC, and SOC2 compliant, and integrate with major HRIS, ATS, and background check solutions. To learn more, visit Fama.io.

Our simple, innovative software solutions give you visibility into the risk associated with your IT, your users and the real threats you face. Our software helps you quickly prioritize threats, manage risk, and take the right steps to improve your organization's security. We understand every organization is different and the best approach for you may not be the best approach for someone else. With broad visibility and contextual insight into what's happening in your information security environment, we give you the ability to adapt to whatever obstacles rise up in the road before you so your organization can go as fast as it needs.

LogicGate is software that allows businesses to automate risk and compliance activities by visually designing their end-to-end workflows and deploying them as highly controlled, flexible process applications -- without writing a single line of code. We make it easy for organizations to quickly deploy processes to solve mission-critical governance, risk, and compliance problems using our best practice solution templates. Using LogicGate helps to reduce operational and strategic risk, enhances compliance controls, and provides much needed agility in a rapidly changing environment. LogicGate also enables organizations to break free from their reliance on outside vendors and corporate IT by allowing non-technical employees to create self-service solutions.

Bureau is a first-of-its-kind trust network that delivers unprecedented trust and security to businesses and consumers. Think of us as a one-stop platform that helps businesses automate their decisions, prevent fraud, and power seamless user experiences. With Bureau, onboarding good customers, starting a new e-commerce business, setting up a gaming company and transacting in cryptocurrencies is as easy as shopping on Amazon. Bureau provides an accurate and comprehensive picture of each of your customers, so that you can confidently transact without fear of fraud. The ramifications of online fraud can be devastating for both businesses and the consumers they serve. Businesses add more friction points which leads to a frustrating user experience for consumers which in turn leads to lower conversions and more dropouts. It’s a vicious cycle. We believe that good customers should never be made to jump through verification hoops. We make it easy for companies to remove friction and serve their customers, while keeping bad actors out. Our platform takes the complexity out of identity verification and can easily be integrated with your backend. By combining ease of integration with a depth of functionality, we are able to provide a solution that can overcome the challenges of sophisticated online frauds. Whether you are a big fintech firm or a small e-commerce startup, our solution simplifies identity verification and fraud prevention so that you can focus on what matters: growth.

Our platform provides non-intrusive scans against a vendor's digital footprint to arrive at a cybersecurity rating and financial impact rating all rooted firmly in industry recognized standards and frameworks such as MITRE, NIST, and the OpenFAIR Framework. We empower organizations to take greater control over the risk in their digital supply chain by giving them the tools and findings to protect their assets.

Hyperion. Analyze emerging events and geopolitical stablility. Move your organization from being reactive to proactive at machine speed. Hyperion's AI engine streamlines access to knowledge and identifies leading indicators of global events that could impact your people, your operations, and your investments.

Kalepa is the Professional Grade AI underwriting platform trusted by top-tier insurers to accelerate profitable premium growth. We automate what slows underwriters down and amplify what makes them exceptional - covering the full workflow from submission intake and triage through to risk evaluation, quote and bind, and portfolio steering. Our clients include Berkley, Munich Re, Bowhead, Canopius, Paragon, and Secura. The results are measurable: 40% faster quote turnaround, 5–15% improvement in bind rates, and 960+ basis points of combined ratio improvement. Working at Kalepa means working on a genuinely hard problem - and seeing your work go live quickly and directly benefit clients. There's no such thing as boredom here. Every day brings something new, and there's always an opportunity to make a meaningful impact. The culture is built on hustle, grit, and transparency. We hire exceptional people who take pride in their craft. If you're energized by our mission and share our values - get in touch.

We are energy specialists that help clients take a strategic approach to their energy requirements in a way that vendors do not. We are indifferent to technologies, existing relationships, markets, or solutions. Energy services have become siloed and the failure to coordinate supply and demand services creates significant risks and is difficult to manage. We work across different teams to help design solutions for the entire energy portfolio that align to an organization’s goals, targets and spend. This unique approach allows us to design solutions that span across energy disciplines, from supply and demand to renewables and maintenance. We use data analysis to produce valuable insights and expose unaddressed risk you may have overlooked.