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Rippling: The Rebundling of Enterprise Software
Talks about Rippling, Sequoia Capital and Venture Capital
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Mike Vernal
Investor
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Mike Vernal is an experienced investor and engineer based in Palo Alto, California, with a strong background in computer science, product management, and software engineering. He has made significant investments in companies like Verkada, PicsArt Inc., and Blues Wireless, focusing on sectors such as developer tools, cloud infrastructure, and consumer internet, contributing to their growth and success.
Vernal's career highlights include serving on the boards of companies like Rippling and Captions, and making strategic investments in startups like Decagon, Rockset, and StarkWare Industries, demonstrating his expertise in identifying and supporting innovative ventures in the tech industry.
Work Experience
Angel Investor
2013
Notion, Wealthfront, Cognition, Decagon, Instawork, Human Interest, Rippling, Buddybuild (acq. by Apple), Unblocked, Figure, more.
Board Member
2019
The platform for creative GTM teams.
Investor
2021
The Employee Management Platform.
Rippling is the workforce management platform that unifies HR, IT, finance, and more.
Raised $1,987,000,000.00 from Dragoneer Investment Group, Coatue, Greenoaks, Founders Fund and Bossa Invest.
Board Member
2021
Captions is an AI-powered creative studio developing a video creation and editing platform for content creation.
Raised $100,000,000.00 from Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Adobe Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Jared Leto and HubSpot Ventures.
Board Member
2021
Statsig helps you make the right decisions by vastly simplifying and automatically running 10x more tests to give you meaningful data insights.
Statsig is a Modern Feature Management and Product Experimentation platform
Raised $53,400,000.00 from Joe Morrissey, Microsoft Accelerator Bangalore, Madrona and Sequoia Capital.
Investor
2013
Notion is an all-in-one workspace for teams that is re-imagining the operating system for work. Angel investor (2013) and partnered on behalf of Sequoia at the Series B (2021).
Notion is a workspace platform that offers note-taking, collaboration, task management, wikis, and databases.
Raised $343,199,697.00 from Coatue, Shine Capital and Sequoia Capital.
Investor
2019
Setting the new standard for enterprise building security. Co-led the Series B.
Verkada is a cloud-based physical security platform provider helping enterprises operate safer, smarter buildings.
Raised $444,299,996.00 from Felicis, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Alkeon Capital, Section Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Friends & Family Capital, Quiet Capital, Sequoia Capital, Linse Capital and Felicis.
Board Member
2020
PicsArt’s mission is to empower the visual storyteller in all of us.
Board Member
2020
Vertically integrated cellular IoT platform.
Blues is a telecommunications company.
Education
Investments
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