Erik Bullen

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.

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.

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.

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.

Board Member and Chief Operating Officer (Fractional)

2020

We fuse science, design, and technology to improve human health, wellness, and performance through recovery.

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.