# Bipul Sinha

> Bipul Sinha is the CEO, Chairman, and Co-Founder of Rubrik, the publicly traded data security company he built from a Bihar basement story into a $17B+ NYSE-listed cybersecurity platform. Before founding Rubrik in 2014, he spent nearly a decade as a venture capitalist at Lightspeed Venture Partners — backing companies like Nutanix and Hootsuite — and nine years at Oracle holding 30+ patents in distributed computing. An IIT Kharagpur and Wharton alumnus who grew up in poverty in Darbhanga, Bihar, Sinha turned a contrarian bet on backup-and-recovery software into the gold standard for enterprise data resilience in the ransomware era.

- **Role:** CEO, Chairman & Co-Founder at Rubrik
- **Organizations:** Rubrik, Lightspeed Venture Partners
- **From:** Darbhanga, Bihar, India
- **Nationality:** Indian-American
- **Education:** Bachelor of Technology, Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, MBA, Finance, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- **Known for:** Co-founded Rubrik and led it from idea to NYSE-listed company with $17B+ market cap, Rubrik crossed $1 billion in annualized recurring revenue (2025), Led Rubrik IPO on NYSE (RBRK) in April 2024, raising $752 million

## Career timeline

- **Early 1990s** — Campus placement at Tata Information Systems (Tata-IBM joint venture) from IIT Kharagpur
- **1990s** — Engineering roles at IBM (Bangalore), American Megatrends (Atlanta), then Oracle Corporation
- **1990s-2000s** — Nine years at Oracle Corporation; earned 30+ patents in distributed computing
- **Early 2000s** — MBA at The Wharton School as Palmer Scholar
- **2008** — Joined Blumberg Capital; became founding investor and board member of Nutanix and Hootsuite
- **2010** — Joined Lightspeed Venture Partners as Partner, focusing on software, mobile, and internet
- **2013** — Left venture capital to co-found Rubrik
- **2014** — Rubrik officially founded; cold-called engineers in Silicon Valley coffee shops for early customers
- **2015** — Rubrik generated $50 million in revenue in its first full sales year
- **2016** — A customer's ransomware attack validated Rubrik's zero-trust backup architecture as a killer use case
- **2019** — Received Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Kharagpur
- **2023** — Rubrik surpassed $500 million ARR; named a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for Enterprise Backup & Recovery
- **2024-04** — Rubrik IPO on NYSE (RBRK); raised $752 million, stock popped 16% on debut; valuation ~$5.6B at IPO
- **2024** — Rubrik market cap exceeded $17 billion post-IPO
- **2025-10** — Launched Rubrik Agent Cloud — industry's first unified control layer for autonomous AI agents
- **2025** — Rubrik crossed $1 billion in annualized recurring revenue
- **2026-03** — Announced SAGE (Semantic AI Governance Engine) at RSAC 2026

## Achievements

- Co-founded Rubrik and led it from idea to NYSE-listed company with $17B+ market cap
- Rubrik crossed $1 billion in annualized recurring revenue (2025)
- Led Rubrik IPO on NYSE (RBRK) in April 2024, raising $752 million
- Holds 30+ patents in distributed computing from Oracle tenure
- IIT Kharagpur Distinguished Alumnus Award (2019)
- Wharton Palmer Scholar (top academic honor)
- Founding investor and board member at Nutanix (which also went public)
- Founding investor at Hootsuite
- Grew Rubrik to 5,500+ enterprise customers including PepsiCo, Home Depot, Goldman Sachs, Allstate, GSK
- Grew Rubrik to 3,200+ employees globally
- Pioneered the concept of cyber resilience as a distinct market category
- Launched Rubrik Agent Cloud — first unified control layer for enterprise AI agents (2025)
- Attracted Microsoft as a strategic backer and NBA star Kevin Durant as an investor
- Recruited Michael Mestrovich (former CIA CISO) and added Mark McLaughlin (former Palo Alto Networks CEO) to Rubrik's board

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Announced SAGE (Semantic AI Governance Engine) at RSAC 2026, powering Rubrik Agent Cloud with a custom Small Language Model for policy enforcement.
- **2026-02** — Rubrik Agent Cloud reached general availability as the industry's first unified control layer for autonomous AI agents across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
- **2025-10** — Launched Rubrik Agent Cloud, enabling organizations to monitor, govern, and remediate AI agent actions.
- **2025** — Rubrik surpassed $1 billion in annualized recurring revenue.
- **2024-04** — Rubrik debuted on NYSE (RBRK), raising $752M; stock popped 16% on day one.

## Links

- Website: https://rubrik.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bipulsinha
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/bipulsinha
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiXrqy2rSBc
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rubrikinc/

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Last updated: 2026-05-30