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Rippling

“Can a single workforce OS — owning the authoritative employee data record — capture the full financial and operational stack (HR, IT, payroll, spend, banking, insurance, EOR) and make switching to any point solution economically irrational?”

Founded2016
HQSan Francisco, CA, USA
FoundersParker Conrad
Total raised$1.85B+
Latest roundSeries F (or later), 2024
Valuation$13.5B (2024 / latest reported)
IndustryHorizontal SaaS / HR & Payroll
The story

Founded in 2016, Rippling started as an HR and IT management platform built on a single employee data record — a direct response to fragmented workforce systems. Over 2021–2022, it aggressively expanded into finance (corporate cards, expenses, bill pay) by leveraging employee data to power real-time spend controls, becoming a genuine workforce OS competitor to Workday and Gusto. From 2023 onward, Rippling layered in global payroll, EOR/PEO, business banking, and treasury yield — embedding financial services directly into the platform to deepen retention and unlock payment economics across its 25,000+ customer base.

Last 12 months
2025-01
2026-03
2026-06
Product timeline
2016
Parker Conrad founded Rippling in San Francisco as a unified HR and IT platform built on a single employee data record.· pivot
2018
Launched Rippling for Accountants program and initial GL integrations (QuickBooks, Xero).· banking
2019
Raised $45M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins to expand HR/payroll product.· ipo
2022
Entered spend management with corporate cards and expense management; raised $250M Series D at $11.25B valuation.· card
2023
Launched Global Payroll and Employer of Record products, enabling payroll in 100+ countries.· banking
2024
Launched Rippling Banking (high-yield checking via Column N.A.) and Investment Account (via Apex Clearing).· banking
2025
Secured EMI license from Central Bank of Ireland for EU payroll/payments; introduced Rippling AI across HR, IT, and Finance.· banking
Regulated entities
5
regulatory licences held by Rippling
Licence types, jurisdictions and registered entities are in the Embedded Finance Index report.
The stack
8 layers disclosed in Rippling’s embedded-finance stack
Banking / BaaS
Column
Card issuing
in the full report
Card network
in the full report
Lending
in the full report
Unified APIs
in the full report
Sponsor bank
in the full report
Investing
in the full report
Accounting
in the full report
Accounting gap: none
16 more providers across 7 layers, with confidence-scored evidence and source URLs, are in the Embedded Finance Index report.