Rick Bullotta

Slackerpreneur

📍 Greater Philadelphia, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2018
VC🌍 United States
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Advisor/Investor
Feb 2018
Designed by industrial automation and digital manufacturing pioneers, TwinThread's digital twin based cloud native Industrial Operations Platform is purpose-built to help industrial companies improve process and equipment efficiency, quality and reliability, and support continuous innovation cycles. We help you accomplish this by: + Utilizing existing data to create a digital twin of your entire operation, + Transforming raw data into actionable information through a library of pre-built KPI and optimization applications + Empowering you to operate more efficiently, effectively, and autonomously. More than just predictive analytics. More than just process optimization. TwinThread represents the next evolutionary step in industrial operations. Best of all, no matter where you are on your own digital journey, we can help you get started TODAY. The typical TwinThread user achieves a 10x return on their annual subscription costs. Contact us and learn how we can help you do the same.
Advisory Board Member/Investor
Feb 2017
Tulip, a leader in frontline operations, is helping companies around the world equip their workforce with AI-enabled, connected apps, leading to higher quality work, improved efficiency, and end-to-end traceability across operations. Tulips composable platform enables those closest to operations to take advantage of composability and edge connectivity to digitally transform processes, guide operators, track production, and gain a real-time, holistic view of operations. Companies of all sizes and across industries — including complex manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices — have implemented composable solutions with Tulip’s platform to solve some of the most pressing challenges in operations: error-proofing processes and boosting productivity with guided workflows, capturing and analyzing real-time data, and continuously improving operations. A spinoff out of MIT, the company is headquartered in Somerville, MA, with offices in Tel Aviv, Munich, Tokyo, Budapest, and Singapore. Interested in helping Tulip transform the manufacturing software landscape? We’re hiring! Browse our open roles and apply today: https://tulip.co/careers/.
Advisory Board Member/Investor
Feb 2017
Losant is an easy-to-use and powerful enterprise IoT application enablement platform designed to help you quickly and securely build complex real-time connected solutions. Losant uses open communication standards to provide connectivity from one to millions of devices. Losant provides powerful data collection, aggregation, and visualization features to provide you with new data insights. Losant is trusted by your development team and capable of driving business results. Start independently or if you want help to define and build your unique product, Losant’s experienced solution engineers are ready to work with you. Please connect at www.losant.com and follow us @LosantHQ.
Advisory Board Member/Investor
May 2016
Medcrypt provides data security as a service to medical device OEMs. From medical imaging devices to pacemakers, Medcrypt ensures that devices act only on instructions from trusted sources.
Investor
Jan 2016
With a purpose of helping a billion people find the right work, Phenom is an applied AI company that helps organizations hire faster, develop better and retain longer. For more information, visit www.phenom.com.
Experience · 11 entries
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Investments (5)
Founder (2)
2020
Partner, Strategy and Technology
Jan 2020
Designed by industrial automation and digital manufacturing pioneers, TwinThread's digital twin based cloud native Industrial Operations Platform is purpose-built to help industrial companies improve process and equipment efficiency, quality and reliability, and support continuous innovation cycles. We help you accomplish this by: + Utilizing existing data to create a digital twin of your entire operation, + Transforming raw data into actionable information through a library of pre-built KPI and optimization applications + Empowering you to operate more efficiently, effectively, and autonomously. More than just predictive analytics. More than just process optimization. TwinThread represents the next evolutionary step in industrial operations. Best of all, no matter where you are on your own digital journey, we can help you get started TODAY. The typical TwinThread user achieves a 10x return on their annual subscription costs. Contact us and learn how we can help you do the same.
2018
Partner Director, Azure IoT Strategy
May 2018
Every company has a mission. Whats ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesnt diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.
Advisor/Investor
Feb 2018
Designed by industrial automation and digital manufacturing pioneers, TwinThread's digital twin based cloud native Industrial Operations Platform is purpose-built to help industrial companies improve process and equipment efficiency, quality and reliability, and support continuous innovation cycles. We help you accomplish this by: + Utilizing existing data to create a digital twin of your entire operation, + Transforming raw data into actionable information through a library of pre-built KPI and optimization applications + Empowering you to operate more efficiently, effectively, and autonomously. More than just predictive analytics. More than just process optimization. TwinThread represents the next evolutionary step in industrial operations. Best of all, no matter where you are on your own digital journey, we can help you get started TODAY. The typical TwinThread user achieves a 10x return on their annual subscription costs. Contact us and learn how we can help you do the same.
2017
Advisory Board Member/Investor
Feb 2017
Tulip, a leader in frontline operations, is helping companies around the world equip their workforce with AI-enabled, connected apps, leading to higher quality work, improved efficiency, and end-to-end traceability across operations. Tulips composable platform enables those closest to operations to take advantage of composability and edge connectivity to digitally transform processes, guide operators, track production, and gain a real-time, holistic view of operations. Companies of all sizes and across industries — including complex manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices — have implemented composable solutions with Tulip’s platform to solve some of the most pressing challenges in operations: error-proofing processes and boosting productivity with guided workflows, capturing and analyzing real-time data, and continuously improving operations. A spinoff out of MIT, the company is headquartered in Somerville, MA, with offices in Tel Aviv, Munich, Tokyo, Budapest, and Singapore. Interested in helping Tulip transform the manufacturing software landscape? We’re hiring! Browse our open roles and apply today: https://tulip.co/careers/.
Advisory Board Member/Investor
Feb 2017
Losant is an easy-to-use and powerful enterprise IoT application enablement platform designed to help you quickly and securely build complex real-time connected solutions. Losant uses open communication standards to provide connectivity from one to millions of devices. Losant provides powerful data collection, aggregation, and visualization features to provide you with new data insights. Losant is trusted by your development team and capable of driving business results. Start independently or if you want help to define and build your unique product, Losant’s experienced solution engineers are ready to work with you. Please connect at www.losant.com and follow us @LosantHQ.
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