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Serial founder and CEO of Rippling, valued at $16.8B
Credibility
Traction · 97th percentile
- Rippling last raised a $450M Series G at a $16.8B valuation in May 2025.
- SigFig raised over $10M in venture capital during Conrad's tenure as co-founder.
- Zenefits was acquired by TriNet; no public acquisition price was disclosed.
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Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Rippling last raised a $450M Series G at a $16.8B valuation in May 2025.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Current co-founder and CEO of Rippling.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Past founder of Wikinvest, SigFig, and Zenefits.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Parker Conrad has a Wikipedia page, confirming public notability as a serial entrepreneur.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)rippling.com ranks #16,565 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Rippling was co-founded with Prasanna Sankar.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)SigFig raised over $10M in venture capital during Conrad's tenure as co-founder.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Zenefits was acquired by TriNet; no public acquisition price was disclosed.
Investor score
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Publicly identified as an individual angel investor on Crunchbase with investments in companies including AgentSync, Pulley, and Census.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Has made 10 portfolio investments as an angel investor, per Crunchbase.
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)Approximately 9 years of investing experience, with angel activity documented from around 2016 onward.
What you likely need
You're navigating the most consequential 18 months of Rippling's story — from breakout private company to public market icon — and the right rooms can compress that timeline dramatically. Festival events that put you across the table from IPO-track founders, Fortune 500 CHROs, and top ECM bankers will sharpen your readiness on every front, from roadshow narrative to enterprise motion to underwriter selection. You're also the highest-signal operator in any room with early-stage HR-tech founders, and a handful of well-curated angel intro nights will cement that reputation before the IPO makes your calendar impossible.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- fundraisingA dinner with Klaviyo, Rubrik, and ServiceTitan IPO alumni to pressure-test Rippling's S-1 readiness timeline, dual-class structure decisions, and underwriter selection ahead of the anticipated offering
- fundraisingA private roundtable with senior ECM bankers from Goldman, Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan who led recent enterprise SaaS IPOs to get a candid read on public market appetite for a $16.8B compound-platform story at $1B+ ARR
- tacticalA curated dinner with Fortune 500 CHROs and CIOs from Walmart, JPMorgan, and Lockheed Martin where Parker walks through Rippling's unified HR/IT/Finance data platform narrative and directly qualifies the enterprise motion for 10,000-seat deals
- positioningA positioning salon with a16z and Sequoia narrative partners alongside founders who reframed multi-product platforms — Rippling vs. Workday vs. ServiceNow — to sharpen the compound startup story before it hits the IPO roadshow
- positioningA small dinner with Acquired, Invest Like the Best, Lex Fridman's team, and The Information editors to workshop how the Zenefits-to-Rippling arc gets told as the canonical Silicon Valley resilience narrative ahead of a book or keynote circuit push
- introsAn angel intro night pairing Parker with 8–10 pre-seed and seed-stage HR-tech and workforce-management founders from YC W23/S23/W24 batches and Founders Fund scouts, where his operator credibility building Rippling to $1B ARR is the single most valuable signal in the room
- tacticalA tactical roundtable with UK, India, and Australia country leads from Workday, Personio, and Deel to map where the HR-tech stack is most fragmented in each market and identify the fastest wedge for Rippling's international go-to-market across its existing 40-country footprint
- hiringA dinner with CFOs and general counsels from Stripe, Canva, and Chime who have structured secondary tender programs at late-stage valuations, to design Rippling's next liquidity event that retains top talent as the IPO window extends beyond 12 months