Rippling

Rippling is a workforce management platform unifying HR, IT and Finance on a single data platform to automate the employee lifecycle, including payroll, devices, cards and app provisioning.

Rippling, founded in 2016 by Parker Conrad and Prasanna Sankar, builds a workforce management platform that unifies HR, IT and Finance functions on a single data platform. The system is designed to manage and automate the full employee lifecycle, from onboarding to offboarding, handling payroll, corporate cards, computer and device setup, benefits administration and provisioning of third-party applications such as Slack and Microsoft 365. The company reports that a new employee can be fully set up across these systems in 90 seconds.

The platform spans several technical domains: HR technology, IT and device management, finance automation, payroll automation and SaaS integration, all underpinned by a unified data layer. Its scope extends to hiring and equipping employees anywhere in the world. Rippling serves thousands of customers across industries including human resources, information technology, finance, business software and payroll and benefits administration.

The company has raised over $1.4 billion in funding and is valued at $13.5-17 billion, with investors including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks and Bedrock. Rippling has been named one of Forbes' America's Best Startup Employers and has appeared on the Fortune Future 50 and Enterprise Tech 30 lists. The company describes its mission as helping businesses run like masterminds.