Rippling Sues HR Software Rival Deel for Trade Secret Theft (1)

Workplace software company People Center Inc.—known as Rippling—is suing its chief competitor over alleged corporate espionage.

The complaint, filed Monday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, alleges violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, RICO conspiracy, and misappropriation of trade secrets.

Both companies were valued in excess of $10 billion in recent funding rounds.

Rippling, in its complaint, says Deel “cultivated a spy to systematically steal its competitor’s most sensitive business information and trade secrets,” in a deliberate attack that lasted for more than four months.

The alleged spy at Rippling—its Ireland-based Global ...