Risktalk

What Risktalk does

RiskTalk is a privately held SaaS company that operates an anonymous employee speak-up and risk reporting platform, founded as a spin-out from HEC Lausanne (University of Lausanne) around 2017-2018. The product consists of a dual-application architecture: a multi-language Reporter Application (mobile, tablet, and laptop compatible) that enables any employee to submit an anonymous issue report in under 30 seconds, and a back-office Control Suite dashboard that lets triage teams monitor, assign, communicate on, and close reports in real time. The platform is hosted on AWS in Western Europe with ISO 27001-aligned infrastructure and GDPR compliance, supports SSO integration, and exposes API/CSV/Excel data export. The company has extended this base with ESG-Talk (launched 2021), a companion product that applies the same dual-app model to Environmental, Social, and Governance policy conformance reporting.

RiskTalk monetises through bespoke enterprise SaaS subscriptions with annual billing and through lower-cost 3-month pilot programmes, with no publicly disclosed pricing. Go-to-market is a consultative direct enterprise sales motion: a free one-hour initial consultation maps the customer's position on a proprietary Risk Maturity Model, followed by bespoke configuration against the customer's core values, app deployment across employee devices (achievable in as little as 10 working days), and training workshops for end users and the internal triage team. The model is relationship-driven and targets senior management, risk leaders, and sustainability/governance functions.

The company's primary customers are larger enterprises — notably Swissgrid, the Swiss national electricity network, which was the pioneering deployment, plus event organisers such as SIHH/Watches and Wonders and Cartier's Coloratura showcase in Paris. Revenue is intentionally undisclosed and pricing is quote-based. The firm is small (1-10 employees, headquartered in Lausanne with a registered office in Hove, England) and remains seed-stage funded, with seed capital from Venture Kick, InnoTREK, MassChallenge, and the Foundation for Innovation and Technology (FIT). Its go-to-market is anchored on the academic authority of its co-founders — Anette Mikes (Oxford Saïd) and Kurt Meyer (former CRO of Swissgrid) — and marketing is primarily thought-leadership driven, including a Harvard Business Review feature, academic seminars at ETH Zürich, and partnerships with PwC Switzerland and the UK risk association Airmic.

Name

Risktalk

Legal name

RiskTalk Ltd

Website

https://risktalk.ch

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

RiskTalk provides a SaaS-based anonymous employee risk reporting and ESG compliance platform for enterprises. Its dual-app architecture — a multi-language Reporter app and Control Suite dashboard — enables speak-up culture and ESG conformance for clients in energy, luxury, and event sectors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Enterprise risk and ESG reporting software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Risk Management Consulting (Enterprise & Operational Risk) (FSAEADAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Business Continuity, Crisis Management & Operational Resilience (BPAHAFAK), Business Continuity, Crisis Management & Resilience Planning (BPAKADAI), Risk, Compliance & Internal Controls Consulting (BPAHACAJ), Crisis Communications & Issues Management (BPAFADAE)

Keywords

• Employee speak-up platform
• Risk reporting software
• ESG compliance tools
• Anonymous incident reporting
• Enterprise risk management

Headquarters

HQ city

Lausanne

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscription (RiskTalk and ESG-Talk): Individually tailored SaaS subscriptions for the RiskTalk and ESG-Talk toolkits. Each implementation is unique and bespoke to the organization's needs. Pricing is quote-based and customized per customer.
2. Pilot Programme: 3-month pilot programmes offered at modest cost to allow organizations to evaluate the product in situ without long-term commitment, potentially converting to full subscription.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

RiskTalk sells two bespoke SaaS toolkits — RiskTalk and ESG-Talk — that allow employees to anonymously report workplace issues, risks, and ESG policy concerns in under 30 seconds via a multi-device Reporter Application, while a back-office Control Suite dashboard lets triage teams monitor, assign, and close out reports in real time. Customers subscribe annually to a tailored configuration aligned to their organizational core values, with implementation achievable in as little as 10 working days.

Product overview

RiskTalk offers a unified two-product portfolio: RiskTalk (enterprise risk reporting) and ESG-Talk (ESG compliance reporting). Both products share a dual-app architecture comprising the Reporter Application (employee-facing, for anonymous issue submission) and the Control Suite back-office dashboard (for triage teams to assign, action, and close reports). ESG-Talk extends the same framework specifically for monitoring Environmental, Social and Governance policy conformance, while the core RiskTalk product addresses broader operational and values-based risk communication.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ESG-Talk: A companion SaaS application to RiskTalk, designed to help organisations monitor, conformance and assure their ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) policies by providing employees with a psychologically safe place to speak up about ESG-related issues.
• RiskTalk Reporter Application
• Control Suite

Products and services

• RiskTalk Enterprise employee speak-up and risk reporting SaaS platform that allows employees to anonymously report issues affecting core values in under 30 seconds via a multi-device app, with a back-office Control Suite dashboard enabling triage teams to assign, action, and close out reports in real time. Tailored to organizational core values.
• ESG-Talk Companion ESG compliance SaaS tool that lets employees anonymously flag environmental, social, and governance policy non-conformance, helping organisations monitor, assure, and report conformance with their ESG commitments and EU sustainability regulations.

Quantifiable outcome

• Deployment can be completed in as little as 10 working days for standard implementation
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• SwissERMcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSwissERM partnered with the University of Lausanne to test the effects and uses of RiskTalk. SwissERM is an organization focused on risk management that collaborated with academia to validate RiskTalk's approach to helping organizations prevent risk incubation and stave off lazy thinking.
• HEC Lausanne / University of LausannecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRiskTalk was created as a start-up at HEC Lausanne (University of Lausanne), benefiting from InnoTREK funding and completing a one-year action research phase that validated its relevance and commercial potential. Ongoing academic collaboration with Professor Anette Mikes.
• ETH Zürich Risk CenterminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerRiskTalk founders presented at ETH Risk Center seminars to academics and risk practitioners, discussing how RiskTalk differs from incident reporting systems and its scalability for crisis situations.
• AirmicminorGTM or Marketing PartnerAirmic, the UK risk management association, featured RiskTalk in their 'Roads to Repurposing' thought leadership series launched at their 2021 conference in Brighton, focusing on corporate purpose and risk management.
• PwC SwitzerlandminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPwC Switzerland interviewed Kurt Meyer, RiskTalk co-founder, as part of their 2019 Global Risk, Internal Audit and Compliance Survey, discussing how digitisation combined with feedback culture can lead to greater transparency.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• NAVEX Global: NAVEX Global is the largest dedicated ethics-and-compliance hotline/whistleblower vendor with NAVEX WhistleB / EthicsPoint, serving thousands of global enterprises. It is the most direct competitor to RiskTalk in the speak-up / anonymous reporting category, and its Convercent acquisition further expanded its ethics culture platform.
• EQS Group (EQS Integrity Line): EQS Integrity Line is a leading EU-based whistleblower and compliance hotline provider, purpose-built for EU Whistleblower Directive compliance. It is one of the closest direct competitors to RiskTalk in the European market for anonymous speak-up and incident reporting tools.
• People Intouch (SpeakUp): SpeakUp by People Intouch is a dedicated whistleblower and speak-up hotline platform used by mid-market and enterprise organizations globally. It competes directly with RiskTalk's anonymous reporting and triage dashboard functionality, with comparable SaaS delivery and multi-language support.
• WhistleB (NAVEX): WhistleB is a Sweden-based whistleblower hotline SaaS (now part of NAVEX Global) purpose-built for EU Whistleblower Directive compliance. It directly competes with RiskTalk in the European compliance-driven speak-up segment.
• Convercent (NAVEX): Convercent is an ethics and compliance cloud platform (acquired by NAVEX Global) that includes hotline, case management and ethics culture analytics. Its mission and product surface are highly aligned with RiskTalk's speak-up / values-protection positioning.

Broad incumbents

• SAI360: SAI360 is a broader GRC and ethics & compliance platform offering whistleblower hotlines alongside risk, EHS, and learning modules. It overlaps with RiskTalk's speak-up / risk reporting category but competes as a full-suite incumbent rather than a focused psychological-safety tool.
• Diligent (Galvanize / GRC): Diligent acquired Galvanize to form a large GRC and audit platform with ethics-line / case-management capabilities. It is a broader incumbent that addresses the same CRO buyer as RiskTalk but with a much wider product portfolio and enterprise footprint.
• OneTrust (EthicsLine / GRC): OneTrust offers EthicsLine and broader GRC/ethics modules targeting the same enterprise compliance and ethics buyer as RiskTalk. It is a well-funded incumbent whose scale and breadth could pressure RiskTalk in enterprise RFPs.

Emerging players

• LogicGate Risk Cloud: LogicGate Risk Cloud is a configurable risk and compliance workflow platform with incident/issue management modules that overlap with RiskTalk's Control Suite triage functionality. It serves similar enterprise risk buyers but is positioned as a broader risk workflow platform.
• Workiva: Workiva is a leading ESG and regulatory reporting platform with strong traction among large EU companies subject to CSRD and other ESG mandates. It is an adjacent competitor to ESG-Talk in the ESG compliance category, though it focuses on disclosure reporting rather than employee speak-up.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors3 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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