Prasanna Sankar, the co-founder of tech giant Rippling, has established himself as a prominent figure in the technology sector. He is an Indian businessman who co-founded, $10 billion HR company in San Francisco. He has now claimed that his wife cheated on him with a married man. He took to X and accused her of filing fake cases against him for rape and child kidnapping against him. Prasanna Sankar is currently in India to file a divorce. He took to social media on Sunday to share what is happening to him. He shared that he is on the run with his son as the Chennai Police has been trying to nab him following his wife’s complaints.
What He Says About the Issue
Prasanna Sankar in a recent move, took to X (formerly Twitter) on March 23, alleged that his wife Dhivya, cheated on him with a man named, Anoop, for over six months. Additionally, The entrepreneur has shared few screenshots accusing his wife, of having another affair with Anoop Kuttysankaran. He claimed that the screenshots were shared by Anoop’s wife with the details of them booking private hotel bookings.
In another post he wrote: “She was unhappy and decided to instead file a fake police complaint against me saying I hit her. Later, she made further fake complaints that I raped her (a month after the alleged rape). That I circulated her nude videos, etc. Singapore police have investigated these allegations, found them baseless, and have cleared me from all charges,” he wrote on X.
Prasanna filed for divorce in India, Dhivya filed for it in the US. He also claimed that she tried to kidnap their son and take him to the US to gain an advantage in the divorce case.
Who’s Prasanna Sarkar?
Prasanna Sankar, or Prasanna Sankaranarayanan, is an Indian-origin entrepreneur currently residing in Singapore. He is an alumnus of the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Trichy. He earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science between 2004 and 2008. He met his wife Dhivya Sashidhar there and married her.
His early career included stints at tech giants such as Google and Microsoft, where he gained valuable industry experience.
Before Rippling, Sankar co-founded LikeALittle, a social networking platform, and held the position of Director of Engineering at Zenefits. It is a software company specialized in human resources solutions. His LinkedIn profile suggest that Prasanna left Rippling in 2020. After he began a Singapore-based “social network for crypto natives” 0xPPL in 2023. Prasanna honed his skills in competitive programming before embarking on his entrepreneurial ventures.
Net Worth
This passage highlights Prasanna Sankar’s journey from being a top-ranked competitive programmer in India to becoming a successful entrepreneur. During his college years, he excelled in coding competitions on platforms like TopCoder and Google Code Jam.
According to Forbes, his net worth is estimated at around $1 billion (approximately ₹9,000 crore). His wealth mainly comes from being the co-founder of Rippling, a $10-billion tech company. Rippling is a workforce management platform. It integrates HR, IT, and finance, providing businesses with a seamless system to manage employee data and operations in one place.
