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Ripple

San Francisco, California

Ripple is a developer of a blockchain platform designed to build crypto technology for a world without economic borders. The company's platform offers an open-source payment system using a math-based virtual currency that helps in free payments to merchants, consumers, and developers, enabling global financial institutions, businesses, and governments to move, manage, and tokenize value and customers to pay in any currency with no chargebacks and global payment options.

https://ripple.com
Founded Year
2012
Est. Valuation
$42.63B
Total Raised
$826.28M
Last Raised
Undisclosed
Stage
Later Stage VC

Company Profile

Ripple Labs is a San Francisco-based fintech company founded in 2012 that develops enterprise blockchain solutions, notably RippleNet and the XRP Ledger, for fast, low-cost, cross-border payments. The company, led by CEO Brad Garlinghouse, utilizes the XRP cryptocurrency for liquidity and has recently focused on launching its U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin, RLUSD.

Latest Funding Rounds

06-Feb-2026 Secondary Transaction - Private

04-Nov-2025 $500.00M Later Stage VC

01-Jan-2025 Later Stage VC

$1.08M Equity Crowdfunding

Accelerator/Incubator

05-Sep-2023 $0.34M Secondary Transaction - Private

01-Jan-2023 Later Stage VC

28-Jan-2022 Secondary Transaction - Private

21-Aug-2021 Later Stage VC

01-Oct-2020 $200.00M Later Stage VC (Series C)

Key Management

Brad Garlinghouse Chief Executive Officer & Board Member

Monica Long President

Jon Bilich Chief Financial Officer

David Schwartz Chief Technology Officer Emeritus, Chief Cryptographer and Board Member

Stuart Alderoty Chief Legal Officer

Chris Larsen Co-Founder & Executive Chairman

Christopher Penney Co-Founder

Ryan Fugger Co-Founder

Travis King Co-Founder

Pierce Cusick Corporate Development Manager

Investors

Elliot Han, Jonathan Simmons, James Devlin, Jonathan Simmons, Jeffery Brown, Steve Bennet, Suman Talukdar, Udaya Shivaraman, Rajan Perkash MD, Ryan Katz

Information provided is from the Pitchbook database as of 26/3/2026.

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