Ripcord
Founded 2015 · 114 employees on LinkedIn · 18 known investors
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Ripcord uses robotics and AI to digitize paper documents and extract data, transforming unstructured information into accessible, structured digital files for enterprise use.
Founders & leadership
Ripcord was founded in 2015 by Alex Fielding.
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Alex FieldinginDirector & Ripcord Co-FounderAlex Fielding has over 25 years of experience in engineering and robotics; he previously co-founded Wheels of Zeus (sold 2006), served as CTO at Power Assure and VP at Vigilent, and worked as a NASA contractor before founding Ripcord.
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Sam FahmyinPresident and CEOPreviously chief revenue and marketing officer at WorkFusion and, before that, spent more than a decade at Cvent as GM and SVP for products, go-to-market and corporate development. He earlier co-founded and led Bungo, was a managing director at Japonica Partners, began his career in brand management at Procter & Gamble, and serves on the board of Clio Coffee.
Investors · 18
Icon Ventures✓ verifiedPalo Alto · $6M – $12M
Kleiner Perkins✓ verifiedMenlo Park · $500K – $15M
15th RockYokohama
Catapult VenturesSilicon Valley · $250K – $1.5M
Comet LabsSan Francisco
Hemisphere Ventures LLCMckinney
Lux CapitalNew York · $100K – $100M
Partners for GrowthTiburon · $1M – $50M
Partners for Growth (PFG)
SQN Venture Partners, LLCCharleston
Titanium VenturesSydney Nsw · $5M – $10M
Tyche PartnersLos Altos · $1M – $10M
Baidureported
GV (Google Ventures)reportedMountain View · $250K – $50M
Legend Starreported北京 · $425K – $112M
MUFGreportedLondon
Also in the syndicate · 2
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2 people who came through Ripcord went on to found or lead other companies.
Competitors · 6
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Netezza62 shared keywordsIBM is a global technology company whose business spans enterprise software (including Red Hat, HashiCorp, and Confluent), IT infrastructure such as mainframes, servers, and storage, and IT consulting services. The company is also investing heavily in quantum computing and AI-based enterprise offerings, including its Lightwell open-source software security clearinghouse and the Anderon quantum wafer foundry.
Automation Anywhere37 shared keywordsAutomation Anywhere provides robotic process automation (RPA), intelligent document processing (IDP), and agentic automation solutions for enterprise customers. The platform helps organizations automate business processes and document workflows.
Hyland26 shared keywordsHyland offers a cloud-native platform that unifies fragmented enterprise content and enables AI-driven automation through content federation, contextual enrichment, and agentic workflows. The platform helps organizations transform unstructured data into governed intelligence to support enterprise-scale AI adoption and automate document-centric business processes.
Databricks26 shared keywordsDatabricks provides a unified platform for data engineering, analytics, and artificial intelligence, enabling organizations to build and deploy data and AI applications on cloud infrastructure.
Blue Prism25 shared keywordsSS&C Blue Prism provides an agentic automation platform that combines AI, RPA, orchestration, and process mining to help large enterprises automate complex workflows with built-in governance and security. The platform is designed for highly regulated industries including financial services, healthcare, insurance, and manufacturing.
Docsumo23 shared keywordsDocsumo provides APIs and document processing platform to extract data from unstructured documents across industries including insurance, banking, and logistics. The platform enables businesses to automate document data capture with 90%+ touchless processing capabilities.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Ripcord do?
- Ripcord uses robotics and AI to digitize paper documents and extract data, transforming unstructured information into accessible, structured digital files for enterprise use.
- Who founded Ripcord?
- Ripcord was founded by Alex Fielding in 2015.
- Who are Ripcord's investors?
- Ripcord's investors include Icon Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, 15th Rock, Catapult Ventures, Comet Labs, Hemisphere Ventures LLC, Lux Capital, Partners for Growth and 8 more.