Rippling acquired Fuzzbuzz, bringing a six-person application-security engineering team into Rippling.
SourceOne place to run all your HR, IT, and Finance. Globally.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 2, 2026
Rippling is a privately held workforce-management and business-software company founded in 2016. Its platform unifies HR, payroll, IT, finance, and workforce data so companies can automate employee-lifecycle and business workflows from one system of record. The company describes its mission as freeing smart people to work on hard problems. [Rippling About; Rippling Careers]
Primary product
Rippling Platform: an integrated suite spanning HRIS, payroll, benefits, talent, global employment/EOR, identity and access management, device management, spend management, corporate cards, bill pay, integrations, workflows, analytics, AI, and Data Cloud.
Founded
2016
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
6,000+ employees (company-reported careers metric, 2026); third-party estimates place the workforce above 7,000 by mid-2026.
Work style
Hybrid
Industry
Software
Sub-industry
Workforce management / HR technology / enterprise SaaS / fintech-enabled business software
Offices
Business model
Stage
Late-stage private company / Series G; unicorn
Total raised
$1.9B
Latest round
Series G · May 2025
Latest amount
$450M
May 2025 · Syndicate including Elad Gil, Sands Capital, GIC, Goldman Sachs Growth, Baillie Gifford (no single lead disclosed) [Rippling Blog](https://www.rippling.com/blog/series-g-fundraising-tender-offer)
May 2025 · None disclosed; multiple investors participated
Apr 2024 · Coatue
Apr 2024 · Coatue (lead) [Rippling Blog](https://www.rippling.com/blog/rippling-announces-series-f-fundraising-and-tender-offer)
Mar 2023 · Greenoaks Capital (lead) [Tracxn](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/rippling/__0jBKlITnDSnX0Ucn3h0dJV4XxoMOMDeE4UYtJv7fZ30/funding-and-investors)
Mar 2023 · Greenoaks
May 2022 · Bedrock + participation from Kleiner Perkins (co-investors included Sequoia, Y Combinator) [Tracxn](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/rippling/__0jBKlITnDSnX0Ucn3h0dJV4XxoMOMDeE4UYtJv7fZ30/funding-and-investors)
May 2022 · Bedrock and Kleiner Perkins
Oct 2021 · Sequoia Capital (lead) [Tracxn](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/rippling/__0jBKlITnDSnX0Ucn3h0dJV4XxoMOMDeE4UYtJv7fZ30/funding-and-investors)
Oct 2021 · Sequoia Capital Global Equities and Global Growth
Aug 2020 · Founders Fund (lead) [Crunchbase](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/rippling)
Aug 2020 · Founders Fund
Apr 2019 · Kleiner Perkins
Apr 2019 · Multiple / early VCs (see Crunchbase listing) [Crunchbase](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/rippling)
Jan 2017 · Y Combinator
Jan 2017 · Y Combinator (accelerator/seed) [Y Combinator listing / Crunchbase](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/rippling)
Leadership
Co-Founder and CEO
President and Chief Product Officer
General Counsel
Chief Technology Officer and SVP, Engineering
Chief Financial Officer
SVP, Customer Experience
Sunil Raman
SVP, Business and Product Operations
Bridget Abraham
Chief Compliance Officer
Eisar Lipkovitz
Chief Product Officer (appointed; current product leadership also listed as Matt MacInnis on the About page)
Duncan Godfrey
Chief Information Security Officer
SVP, Engineering, IT Products
Gang Wang
SVP, Engineering, Finance Products
Brad Armstrong
SVP, Business and Corporate Development
Founders
Prasanna Sankar
Co-Founder
Rippling presents a high-intensity, growth-oriented culture with substantial ownership, autonomy and product ambition. Its published principles emphasize speed, direct challenge, accountability, frugality, changing one’s mind when evidence changes, and building winning teams. The company explicitly says work is not always 9-to-5, while also encouraging employees to protect family and personal time. External employee-sourced summaries suggest a three-days-per-week hybrid expectation near offices and a tradeoff between strong growth/ownership and work-life or benefits concerns.
Work style
Hybrid
Visa sponsorship
Limited
Compensation
Job postings describe competitive salary, benefits and equity with location- and experience-dependent ranges. Public postings show examples such as $63,000-$105,000 for an immigration role in the San Francisco area and $214,000-$268,000 for a US Tier 1 marketing role. Rippling’s immigration policy says sponsorship is automatically eligible for several R&D, data, business-systems and operations roles, but sponsorship is role- and country-dependent rather than universal.
Benefits
Pricing
Primarily per employee per month, generally by selected product/module, sometimes with a monthly base fee; tailored quotes are used for many customers. Some products also have usage- or transaction-linked economics.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
Approximately $850 million-$1.0 billion annualized as of late 2025 through March 2026; third-party estimates, not audited public-company revenue.
Rippling acquired Fuzzbuzz, bringing a six-person application-security engineering team into Rippling.
SourceRippling acquired RunX, an infrastructure-automation startup/team whose founders and engineers joined Rippling.
SourceThe Series G announcement included a planned $200 million tender offer for current and former employees. Reuters also reported that Rippling had no immediate IPO plans and that profitability remained a consideration.
SourceCEO Parker Conrad told TechCrunch the company was roughly two years from cash-flow positive, was spending 45%-50% of revenue on R&D, and was not planning to go public at that time.
SourceBusiness Wire · Jul 2026
Rippling announced direct benefits-carrier integrations intended to reduce manual eligibility and enrollment reconciliation.
TechCrunch · Jun 2026
Coverage of Rippling Data Cloud, Business Banking, AI economics, R&D spending, cash-flow timing and the company’s decision not to pursue an IPO imminently.
Rippling · Jun 2026
Rippling launched Data Cloud with connectors, transformations, catalog, historical object context, custom apps, Snowflake Zero Copy and AI-powered workforce analytics.
Rippling · May 2025
The new Bengaluru office exceeds 100,000 square feet; Rippling said it planned to grow its India workforce from about 1,000 to 2,000 over three years.
Reuters · May 2025
Rippling raised $450 million in Series G at a $16.8 billion valuation and announced a potential $200 million employee-equity repurchase.