About Rippling
One employee record for HR, IT and finance, instead of five tools that argue about who that person is.
Rippling was founded in 2016 in San Francisco by Parker Conrad and Prasanna Sankar, and launched publicly in 2017. Conrad's previous company, Zenefits, had ridden the same SMB-HRIS wave four years earlier; Rippling was built around the lesson that an HRIS on its own does not finish the joiner, mover and leaver job that small and mid-sized companies run in practice. The company employs around 5,000 people today.
The product covers four jobs that mid-market companies otherwise buy from four vendors: HR (HRIS, recruiting, benefits, performance, time and attendance, learning), payroll (domestic and global, plus contractor pay), IT (identity, app provisioning across 600-plus connected apps, and Apple plus Windows MDM), and spend (corporate cards, expense management, bill pay and travel). Global hiring sits across that as Employer of Record in markets where the customer has no entity. The bundle is the point: a joiner record drives the laptop ship, the Okta-equivalent app provisioning, the card issue with the right department limit and the payroll setup off one approval, and a leaver record reverses all of it. Pulled into a warehouse next to Salesforce, NetSuite or Dynamics, that record finally answers the cross-module questions Rippling reports do not, like which department's joiner-to-fully-provisioned cycle is drifting, where the card programme has dead seats sitting on departed users, or whether global EOR cost per country still beats the alternative now that headcount in that country crossed the entity-setup break-even.
