Who is Rippling co-founder Prasanna Sankar, engaged in bitter custody battle with wife?

Tech entrepreneur Prasanna Sankar accused his wife of harassment and filing false police complaints amid their custody battle.

Updated on: Mar 24, 2025, 10:48:17 IST

By Sanya Jain

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Tech entrepreneur Prasanna Sankar has accused his estranged wife of harassment in the midst of a bitter custody battle. In a series of explosive social media posts, Prasanna Sankar accused his wife of having an affair, shared screenshots of her messages to her alleged boyfriend, and claimed that she had filed fake police complaints against him as they go through a divorce.

Prasanna Sankar is the co-founder of Rippling

According to Prasanna Sankar, his wife filed fake rape, domestic violence and kidnapping cases against him, using her connections with the police to harass him. The entrepreneur has, in turn accused his wife of kidnapping their 9-year-old son.

Who is Prasanna Sankar?

Prasanna Sankar (full name Prasanna Sankaranarayanan) is an Indian-origin entrepreneur settled in Singapore. He was born and raised in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli (NIT Trichy), which is also where he met his wife.

Sankar is a prominent tech entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder of Rippling, a workforce management software company currently valued at approximately $10 billion.

According to his LinkedIn profile, Prasanna left Rippling in 2020 and began Singapore-based 0xppl in 2023.

Before co-founding Rippling, he gained experience at major tech companies, including an internship at Google in 2006 and a subsequent position at Microsoft Canada.

According to his LinkedIn profile, since January 2023, Sankar has also served as founder of 0xPPL, a decentralized social network for the crypto natives.

“I used to do a lot of programming contests: I was ranked #1 in India at TopCoder while at college. 2x Google Code Jam world finalist. 2x ACM ICPC world finalist,” the entrepreneur reveals on LinkedIn.

Google Trends

Interest in “Rippling” has spiked since Prasanna Sankar made the explosive allegations in his X thread yesterday. According to Google Trends, search queries for Rippling started around 4 pm on March 23 and peaked around 2 am on March 24. Maximum searches came from Karnataka, followed by Goa and Telangana.

Related queries included “Rippling founder wife” and “Rippling CEO”.

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Sanya Jain
Sanya Jain is an Assistant Editor with Hindustan Times Digital. She has nearly a decade of experience in covering offbeat stories that speak to the everyday experience - from viral videos to human interest copies that spark conversation. Her interests stretch across business, pop culture, social media trends, entertainment and global affairs. Before joining Hindustan Times, Sanya spent two years with Moneycontrol and five years with NDTV. She holds an undergraduate degree in English literature from St Stephen’s College, Delhi, and a master’s in journalism from the Xavier Institute of Communications, Mumbai. Sanya has a sharp eye for spotting emerging trends and looking for newsworthy angles to elevate viral posts into meaningful narratives. She was the first one, for example, to cover Narayana Murthy’s remark on 70-hour work weeks that sparked a national conversation. She is equally at ease writing about business leaders as about the common man, about issues of national importance and memes that amuse social media. Sanya enjoys speaking with content creators, newsmakers and entrepreneurs to transform everyday moments into engaging, slice-of-life stories that resonate with readers. When she is not working, Sanya can be found curled up with a good book. Born and raised in Lucknow, she has spent the last several years in Delhi. She is deeply interested in animal welfare and now spends a lot of her time running after her destructive orange cat.Read More

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