Erik Bullen
Managing Partner at Gravitate AI
Erik Bullen
Managing Partner at Gravitate AI
Greater Boston
Overview
Work Experience
Advisory, COO, CCO, and Board Roles for Startup and Scaleup Companies - Bolster Ambassador
2020 - Current
My current role is strategy and operations at TeamBirth, a company we are spinning out of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Former roles include: • Fractional COO: For a mental health startup with $3M in funding, created and led core functions, including HR, Finance, Legal, IT, and Customer Success. • Fractional COO: Advised Founder and CEO of a next-generation productivity SaaS suite. • Executive Coach: for a $70M SaaS company, planned and led a company-wide RFP program to evaluate partners to re-platform the core product with more than 10K customers.
Bolster helps startup CEOs scale themselves, their leadership teams, and their boards.
Raised $21,953,074.00 from Alumni Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Capital Factory, Costanoa Ventures, High Alpha, Alumni Ventures, Foundry Group and SVB Financial Group.
Managing Partner
2020
We are a trusted partner among startups, VCs, and global enterprises for delivering strategic advisory, AI/ML development, data science, and product development services. Deep expertise in NLP, Computer Vision, Fintech, Healthcare, Supply Chain, SportsTech, Digital Marketing, and Consumer Research. Example engagements include: • Advising a cybersecurity company on product, engineering, business model, and Go-To-Market. • Advising a German company in the emergency management and elder care market (received a grant from the University of Potsdam, Germany). • Led consumer and competitive research and defined the U.S. market entry strategy for an Asian technology company. • Led research and design to automate via AI/ML the matching process of a two-sided marketplace.
Gravitate is a fractional AI architecture service bundled with cost-effective off-shore development and deployment services.
Member Board of Directors
2021
Vencapital helps to improve the diversity of the venture capital industry by providing investor training, mentoring, and job placement to women and minorities.
Vencapital is a venture accelerator for minorities and women seeking career opportunities in venture finance.
Angel Investor
2021
TBD Angels is a group of angel investors who are current operators at leading startups and executives at major companies.
Limited Partner
2019
Mendoza Ventures is a VC firm focused on Fintech, AI, and Cybersecurity early-stage and growth-stage companies. The firm is both minority and woman-owned and is the first VC firm founded by a Latino on the east coast.
Mendoza Ventures is an early and growth stage Fintech, AI, and Cybersecurity venture fund that provides an actively managed approach to VC.
Board Member and Chief Operating Officer (Fractional)
2020
We fuse science, design, and technology to improve human health, wellness, and performance through recovery.
Three Sages is a wellness company that delivers immersive, nature-based restorative experiences where people live, work, and play.
Raised $150,000.00.
Board Member and Advisor
2020
EroeGo is the newest online grocery platform for conscious consumers in the Middle East and Africa.
Core Member
2022
Founder and Managing Director
2018
We provide startups, scale-ups, VCs, and corporate innovation groups with advisory, interim exec, and project-based support for strategy and operations; growth; product; marketing; customer success; culture and organization; innovation; fundraising and due diligence.
Advisor and Investor
2018
Realplay's video automation platform generates, edits, and publishes unparalleled in-game video of youth baseball and softball games and players.
Education
BBA
1991 - 1995