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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
Partner
2025 - Current
Conviction Partners operates as a venture capital firm.
Investor
2021
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
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.
Board Member
2019
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.
Investor
2013
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.
Seed Investor
2022
Fireworks AI provides advanced tools for developing and deploying generative AI models.
Raised $77,000,000.00 from Alexandr Wang, Benchmark, MongoDB, Howie Liu, AMD, Sequoia Capital, NVIDIA, Databricks Ventures, Sheryl Sandberg and Frank Slootman.
Angel Investor
2013 - 2025
Notion, Cognition, Cursor, Decagon, Pika, Wealthfront, Instawork, Human Interest, Buddybuild, Unblocked, more.
Sabbatical
2023 - 2024
Investor
2022 - 2024
John Carmack / AGI.
Education
Investments
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