Neel Murthy

Head of Growth at Rippling. Former YC Founder. Operator, Investor & Advisor in Tech.

New York, New York, United States

About

Building the premier B2B Growth & Marketing org at Rippling. We're all first principles thinkers that are building a full funnel marketing engine. That means not just demand capturing on a last click basis to focus on near term growth, but really building a system of growth flywheels that generate long term sustained growth. The team here is generational and will be the leaders of the future. Come join us! In addition, I spend my spare time active in the YC startup community. Advising & investing in other YC companies and giving back to the community that gave me my start. I helped start a YC focused fund called Pioneer Fund and have grown from 10 YC alumni involved in the fund to over 500+. I'm still well connected in PF, so if you’re looking to apply to YC or are fundraising as a YC alum, I can get you over to our GPs! ---------- 2X Founder. Student of technology and business processes to accelerate growth and development. YC enthusiast, investor and community builder who loves nothing more than helping young founders learn from my mistakes. I started with a love of math and international relations. However when I got to Stanford, I realized that what I really love was connecting people with technology to make impact on the global population. After studying computer science to further that ambition, I started my first entrepreneurial venture, videocrank, with a few other Stanford students while an undergrad. It was a marketing platform that connected businesses that needed feedback on interesting video media and the college students who they wanted feedback from. There, I managed technical development of the platform in addition to many of the business aspects of the venture. Leveraged these experiences to become lead developer of mylinkpower - a Stanford StartX company that was trying to push the bounds of LinkedIn and what it could do to properly connect its power users. Co-founded by one of LinkedIn's founders himself. Then I had the pleasure of being a co-founder of Swapbox. We started in a weeklong software sprint over spring break. Based on that success, we were able to bootstrap a hardware company until we were accepted into YC. We became the first first and last mile automated delivery system in the US. I have also had the honor to lead growth at Goldbelly. Batch mates of mine at YC, I’ve known the team since the beginning and we’ve built the nations first e-commerce food marketplace powering the best food from around the country shipped nationwide.

Experience

  • Rippling (1 yr 2 mos)
    • VP of Growth
      Oct 2025 - Present · 10 mos

    • Senior Director, Growth
      Jun 2025 - Oct 2025 · 5 mos

  • Venture Partner at Palm Drive Capital
    Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Advisor at Cactus (YC X25)
    May 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Investment Partner at Pioneer Fund
    Nov 2017 - Present · 8 yrs 9 mos

    Founding SVP of Pioneer Fund. Former Visiting General Partner. We’re top decile VC investors and are the most active YC Investors.

  • Goldbelly ()
    • Chief Growth Officer
      Feb 2019 - Jul 2024 · 5 yrs 6 mos

      Led best in class teams including organic growth, paid growth, lifecycle growth, partner growth, product & data science, which all together delivered >15X revenue growth during my tenure. Alongside our CEO, led fundraising efforts to secure $100M in capital.

    • Head of Product
      Feb 2018 - May 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos