Bipul Sinha
Bipul Sinha is the co-founder, chairman and CEO of the data security company RubrikRubrikRubrik is a data security company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It was incorporated in December 2013 as ScaleData, Inc. and renamed Rubrik in October 2014, with co-founder Bipul Sinha as chairman and CEO. It listed on the New York Stock Exchange in April 2024 under the symbol RBRK and had total revenue of $1.316 billion in the fiscal year ended January 31, 2026.Open the full entry, which he has led as CEO since January 2014 and took public on the New York Stock Exchange in April 2024. Before Rubrik he was a partner at Lightspeed Venture PartnersLightspeed Venture PartnersLightspeed Venture Partners backs companies from seed through late-stage financing. Its website distinguishes Lightspeed Management Company (LSVP) from Lightspeed India Partners (LSIP): the two are separately operated investment advisers, with the U.S., European, and Israeli offices belonging to LSVP and the India and Southeast Asia offices belonging to LSIP.Open the full entry and an early investor in and director of Nutanix.
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Early Years: Education and Engineering Career
Sinha earned a Bachelor of Technology in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, which later gave him its Distinguished Alumnus Award, and an MBA in finance from the Wharton SchoolWharton SchoolThe Wharton School is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania. Established through Joseph Wharton’s gift in 1881, it offers undergraduate, MBA, doctoral and executive education.Open the full entry of the University of PennsylvaniaUniversity of PennsylvaniaThe University of Pennsylvania, commonly called Penn, is a private research university and Ivy League member in Philadelphia. It traces its origins to a 1740 charity-school project; Benjamin Franklin proposed his academy in 1749, classes began in 1751, and a 1791 merger established the institution under its present name. Penn has 12 schools, with undergraduate education concentrated in arts and sciences, engineering, nursing and Wharton. Enrollment totaled 29,384 in fall 2025, and the fiscal 2025 endowment was $24.81 billion. As of October 2026, J. Larry Jameson was president, with his term scheduled to end on June 30, 2027.Open the full entry, where he was a Palmer Scholar.[1][2]
Earlier in his career he held engineering positions at OracleOracleOracle (Oracle Corporation) is a U.S. enterprise software and cloud computing company founded in 1977 by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, and Ed Oates. Starting with relational databases, it expanded into enterprise applications, cloud infrastructure, hardware, and industry systems, and broadened its product range through acquisitions of companies such as Sun Microsystems, NetSuite, and Cerner.Open the full entry, American Megatrends and IBMIBMIBM (International Business Machines Corporation) is an American information technology company, renamed in 1924 from the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R).Open the full entry, and he holds several patents in distributed computing.[1][3]
Early Investing: Blumberg Capital
Before Lightspeed, Sinha worked at Blumberg Capital, where he was the founding investor in and a board member of Nutanix and Hootsuite.[1]
2010–2014Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners
From July 2010 to January 2014 Sinha was a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, focusing on software, mobile and internet companies; his investments included Nutanix, Pulse News, Bromium and PernixData. He served on the board of the enterprise cloud platform company Nutanix from December 2011 to October 2017.[2][1]
2014–2016Founding Rubrik
Sinha co-founded Rubrik with Arvind Nithrakashyap, Arvind Jain and Soham Mazumdar; the company was incorporated in December 2013 as ScaleData, Inc. and renamed Rubrik in October 2014. From January 2014 he served as CEO and director while becoming a venture partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, and from July 2016 he has also been chairman of Rubrik’s board.[3][4][2]
April 2024Rubrik’s IPO
On April 24, 2024, Rubrik priced its initial public offering of 23,500,000 Class A shares at $32.00 per share, listing on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol RBRK. Before the offering Sinha held 12,342,646 Class B shares, 7.6 percent of the Class B stock; each Class B share carries 20 votes.[4]
2025–2026Compensation
Effective May 1, 2025, Sinha’s annual base salary rose from $575,000 to $620,000, and for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2026, he received an annual cash bonus of $609,027. Because he serves as both chairman and CEO, Rubrik’s board appointed John W. Thompson as lead independent director.[2]
Related Organizations, Websites, and Public Accounts
Rubrik: Official website: https://www.rubrik.com/ (opens in a new window).[4]