Our Journey

Prefer to learn by listening? Check out our team's podcast appearances. Go to podcasts See open roles Work will never be the same. Neither will you. Two things matter in a job: challenging yourself every day and building something that matters. At Rippling we do both. See open roles Build the OS for work We’re building the first way for businesses to manage and automate every system that employees run on—from payroll to devices and apps. BACKED BY THE BEST Our growth on display Excuse the clutter. We’ve got a lot of things to celebrate, from workplace awards and hiring milestones to platform firsts. BUSINESS INSIDER Best Enterprise Startups SAN FRANCISCO BUSINESS TIMES #1 Fastest Growing Startup Y COMBINATOR 2023 Top Companies 500+ APP INTEGRATIONS 30K EMPLOYEE DEVICES MANAGED $35B PAYROLL PROCESSED 3× YOY REVENUE GROWTH 3,920 GLOBAL EMPLOYEES $1.4B+ RAISED TO DATE A basement. A business plan. A very broken industry. Employee systems are a mess. Busy work keeps multiplying. Everybody hates it. But nobody does anything about it until... 2016 The groundwork is laid for Rippling... Parker's basement is unfinished. So is Rippling's first product. But we have started to build. 2017 Y Combinator taps Rippling The famous accelerator behind Stripe, Airbnb, and Dropbox inducts Rippling. We raise $10M there. Rippling 1.0 is built Hello, World! The first version of our product is here. It's not the platform it will be one day, but it's a start. A tale of two cities We open a couple offices. One is in San Francisco, near our founders. The other is in Bengaluru, where products are being built. 2018 We go live with customers Our first product is launched, getting into the hands of curious customers. Like magic, busy work starts to disappear. Product-market fit finds us Closing tons of customers in our first year confirms what we suspected: There’s an appetite for Rippling. A compound startup is born As part of Rippling’s strategy Parker commits to releasing great products regularly, instead of coasting on one. 2019 10+ founders are hired The team seeks out founders who can own products and lead teams. Many of them are Y Combinator alumni. CFO joins leadership team Adil Syed joins Rippling from Snap, where he was Head of Strategy and Operations and helped lead Snap’s IPO. So long, Shotwell Street Rippling’s San Francisco team outgrows its old office in the Mission District and relocates downtown. 2020 260 employees onboard Our recruiting team runs hard to hire tons of amazing Ripplers. Fifty percent of them are in product, engineering, and design. App Shop is launched With over 200 integrations, Rippling launches the App Store. That’s one giant leap for reducing admin work. Product gets its captain After serving as Coinbase CPO, Jeremy Henrickson joins Rippling to lead product strategy across the company. 2021 Platform is launched Rippling launches Platform, an overhaul that gives employees a host of new capabilities and changes how we build products. Payroll processes $10B …in 2021 alone. Millions of employees receive Rippling’s signature paystubs. Our infrastructure doesn’t break a sweat. CTO rounds out engineering Former founder and Amazon boss Gautam decides Rippling is headed places. He joins to help scale the engineering org. 2022 Engineering has new leadership Albert joins as a CTO at Rippling after serving as Twilio Segment’s VP Engineering Rippling gets a new CFO After serving as CFO of Brex, Adam Swiecicki joins Rippling to expand Global Payroll and Spend Management. Spend is launched The first way to manage all of your spend in one place alongside payroll. It includes Rippling Corporate Cards, Expense Management, and Bill Pay. Rippling goes global We launch Global Payroll, EOR, and globalized versions of nearly everything in Rippling’s product suite. Hello, World! 2023 Let's hear it for Talent Launching Headcount Planning, Compensation Bands, Recruiting, and ... (truncated, view full listing at source)