Betterworks, a leading enterprise performance management platform, today announced the acquisition of Rypple, an AI-native platform designed to help managers lead more effectively in the flow of work. The acquisition reflects Betterworks' belief that manager effectiveness is one of the most critical drivers of business performance — and that performance is shaped not only by formal programs and processes, but also by the everyday actions managers take with their teams.
Rypple provides practical, in-the-moment support for managers preparing for 1:1s, giving feedback, navigating team challenges, and making day-to-day management decisions.
Betterworks helps organizations run continuous, high-impact performance programs led by HR.
Betterworks customers include Intuit and Colgate-Palmolive.
Betterworks backed by Kleiner Perkins, Emergence Capital, 8VC, and John Doerr.
Rypple aims to serve 200 million managers who historically have had no access to coaching, training, or basic support.
Betterworks and Rypple will initially operate as independent products with phased integration.
"Performance doesn't happen only during review cycles. It happens every day in the conversations, decisions, and coaching moments between managers and their teams," said Doug Dennerline, CEO of Betterworks. "By bringing Rypple into Betterworks, we are expanding our long-term investment in manager effectiveness and exploring how AI-native experiences can support better performance outcomes over time."
For years, Betterworks has helped organizations run continuous, high-impact performance programs led by HR. Rypple approaches the same broader challenge from another angle: supporting managers directly, in real time, as they coach employees, prepare for conversations, give feedback, and navigate team dynamics.
Together, Betterworks and Rypple create an opportunity over time to better connect real-time performance programs, continuous manager enablement, AI-driven insight and support, and daily manager behaviors that shape employee and business outcomes.
Rypple was built to provide practical, in-the-moment support for managers. Rather than acting as a traditional training tool, Rypple helps managers take action with greater confidence in real situations, including:
Preparing for 1:1s and other important conversations
Giving more effective feedback
Navigating team challenges
Supporting employees in the flow of work
Making better day-to-day management decisions
"Managers don't need more theory — they need support in the moments where management actually happens," said Ian Gover, Founder of Rypple. "We built Rypple to help managers do the real work of leading teams. Together with Betterworks, we have an opportunity to connect that work more meaningfully to broader performance outcomes."
Betterworks and Rypple will initially operate as independent products while the companies take a deliberate, phased approach to integration. This approach will focus on:
Learning from manager adoption and usage patterns
Identifying where product experiences can reinforce each other
Understanding how AI-driven insights can enhance enterprise performance workflows
Over time, the companies expect to explore deeper connections between manager activity and performance data, real-time coaching and formal performance processes, and bottom-up engagement and enterprise-wide impact.
About Betterworks
Betterworks helps organizations turn performance into measurable business impact. Built for large and fast-growing companies, its AI-native solution brings goals, feedback, skills, and talent intelligence into the flow of work—giving leaders real-time visibility into workforce capability, manager effectiveness, and progress against business priorities. Betterworks helps organizations align teams, coach employees, support growth and internal mobility, and make confident talent decisions grounded in evidence rather than guesswork.
About Rypple
Rypple is the first AI-powered system of action for managers—designed to help them execute their core leadership responsibilities with clarity, consistency, and impact. By automating repetitive tasks and deploying intelligent agents to guide decision-making, Rypple frees managers to focus on what really matters: building teams, giving feedback, and driving results. We aim to serve the 200 million managers who have historically not had any access to coaching, training, or even basic support.
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