Rujul Zaparde

Rujul Zaparde is the co-founder and CEO of Zip, the $2.2 billion AI platform for enterprise procurement trusted by OpenAI, Anthropic, Snowflake, and hundreds of leading enterprises. A serial entrepreneur who dropped out of Harvard at 17 to co-found FlightCar (acquired by Mercedes-Benz in 2016), he later joined Airbnb as a product manager and served as a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator before launching Zip in 2020. Under his leadership, Zip has raised $371 million in funding, processes over $107 billion in spend, and manages 3.9 million suppliers, while enabling over $4.4 billion in customer savings. He also co-founded Drinking Water for India, building 50+ wells serving 100,000+ people.