Number of Portfolio Companies 19
Number of Exits 
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  • Primary Job Title CEO
  • Primary Organization 
    Ripple
  • Investor Type  Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
  • Investor Stage  Seed
  • Number of Exits 

Brad Garlinghouse is the CEO of Ripple and a member of the Board of Directors. Prior to Ripple, Brad served as the CEO of file collaboration service Hightail. From 2009 to 2012 he was President of Consumer Applications at AOL and prior to that he held various executive positions at Yahoo! from 2003 to 2009, including Senior Vice President.

Earlier

in his career, Brad helped to pioneer the VoIP industry as CEO of Dialpad Communications. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of OutMatch and has held board positions at Ancestry.com and Tonic Health.

Number of Investments 20
Brad Garlinghouse has made 20 investments. Their latest investment was Funding Round - Palm Tree Crew on Jan 16, 2024, when Palm Tree Crew raised
$6M
.
Announced Date  
Organization Name  
Lead Investor  
Funding Round  
Money Raised  
Jan 16, 2024
Palm Tree Crew
Funding Round - Palm Tree Crew
$6M
May 10, 2023
Zamp
Seed Round - Zamp
$4M
Jan 1, 2022
Dondo
Seed Round - Dondo
$2.3M
Dec 6, 2017
Happay
Series B - Happay
$10.1M
Nov 12, 2015
Cola
No
Seed Round - Cola
$1.3M
Jan 15, 2015
Sendbloom
No
Seed Round - Sendbloom
$1.3M
Apr 24, 2014
Stitch
No
Seed Round - Stitch
$3.3M
Jun 28, 2013
Handle
Venture Round - Handle
$1.8M
May 21, 2013
Included Health
No
Series A - Included Health
$9M
Feb 20, 2013
Vurb
No
Seed Round - Vurb
$2M
Number of Partner Investments 5
Number of Exits 
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Brad Garlinghouse has exits. Their most notable exits are VurbTrustedID, and Tomfoolery.
  • Vurb Vurb is a local app helping consumers find local things to do and letting them save their ideas.
  • TrustedID TrustedID is an identity protection company providing proactive identity protection solutions for corporations and government agencies.
  • Tomfoolery Tomfoolery is a mobile app lab that provides a conversation platform, Anchor, to share and communicate with colleagues.
  • ThisLife ThisLife is a cloud-based image storing site that protects and organizes users' photos and videos in their own private archive in the cloud.
  • Stitch Stitch is a CRM platform.
  • Sendbloom Tailored outbound messaging for sales
  • Pure Storage Pure Storage is an all-flash enterprise storage company that enables broad deployment of flash in data centers.
  • Happay Happay is an AI-powered business expense management software that enables businesses to automate their expense management process.
  • First To File First To File offers a web-based patent document management service for IP organizations, as well as solutions for patent-related issues.
  • Cola Do more, text less. Cola Bubbles app-like functionality to any texting conversation to make everything you do with your smartphone easier.
Number of Current Jobs 1
Number of Past Jobs 12
Brad Garlinghouse is the CEO at Ripple. Additionally, Brad Garlinghouse has had 12 past jobs including President and COO at Ripple.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Ripple
President and COOApr 2015Oct 31, 2016
Hightail
CEOMay 1, 2012Sep 11, 2014
AOL
President, Applications and CommerceSep 2009Nov 16, 2011
Yahoo
SVP Communications Community&Front DoorsFeb 2003Aug 2007
JovianDATA
Investor (sold to Marketshare Partners)
SBC Communication
Manager
@Home Network
Manager of Media Development
Recurrent Energy
Investor (sold to Sharp Electronics)
threadsy
Investor (sold to Facebook)
Yahoo
SVP, Communications & Communities
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 7
Number of Past Board & Advisor Roles 8
Brad Garlinghouse holds 7 board and advisor roles including Senior Advisor at Silver Lake, Advisor at CloudOn, and Advisor and Investor at Founders Circle Capital.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Animoto
Board Member2012Dec 2017
Tonic Health
Board Member2011Jul 2016
PitchBook
Investor
Included Health
Investor
threadsy
Advisor
Tonic Health
Member of the Board of Directors
Animoto
Member of the Board of Directors
Ancestry
Board Member2013
Number of News Articles 610
Funding RoundJan 16, 2024
Funding RoundMay 10, 2023
Zamp raised $4,000,000 / Seed from Alexandra Cowie and 36 other investors
Funding RoundJan 1, 2022
Dondo raised $2,320,000 / Seed from Bill Shaughnessy and 8 other investors