Rick Faulk

CEO Locus Robotics

📍 Woburn, Massachusetts, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 17 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2023𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
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Board Member
Jul 2023
Retrocausal is the industry leader in intelligence augmentation systems that give superpowers to assembly operators, plant managers, and industrial engineers to dramatically boost the productivity, quality, and safety of shopfloor processes. Retrocausal employs cutting-edge generative AI in the form of its Copilot software to elevate low-skilled labor to take on high-skilled and sophisticated tasks.
Board Member
Mar 2015
The world’s most engaging customer communities are powered by Influitive. Our easy-to-use platform combines industry-leading customer advocacy tools, expert services, and training with intelligent automation, gamification, and personalization features that drive extreme engagement and customer growth at scale—while minimizing administrative effort and time to value. Customer advocates create and share enriching content that sparks peer-to-peer interactions, leading to authentic, positive customer experiences and greater levels of advocacy. Influitive works with customer-driven digital businesses, including nine of the top ten largest global software companies. Leading brands such as Cisco, Adobe, ADP, and IBM trust Influitive to help foster collaboration, build trust, and deepen relationships with customers for top-line growth and bottom-line profits.
Board Member
Sep 2014
Managing security and compliance is a strategic, economic imperative that directly impacts business outcomes. Ntirety is the only company that embeds compliant security throughout your IT and company culture. Protect the entirety of your enterprise through a comprehensive compliant security solution from a single relationship. With over 20 years of experience and deep security expertise, our three 24x7x365 US-based security operations centers (SOCs) simplify your risk management program with a comprehensive protection, recovery and assurance suite of services. Our approach helps you build resilient, adaptive operations throughout all your organization. Discover the award-winning Ntirety Compliant Security Solution that’s tested, proven, and trusted globally. Learn more at ntirety.com.
Board Member
May 2011
SkillSurvey provides a talent intelligence platform you can trust – trust inspired by great data, proven science and actionable information to empower the best possible talent decisions. Our platform delivers measurable data at critical touch points of the employee lifecycle, from hiring to employee exit. We help 33,000 users empower the best possible talent decisions with more than 150,000 job candidates entered into the SkillSurvey platform each month. Hire, engage and retain the best people with SkillSurvey. SkillSurvey is the leader in online reference checking providing immediately useful insights to help employers make better hiring decisions. SkillSurvey speeds hiring for commercial, higher education, healthcare, and staffing and recruiting organizations. Its cloud-based referencing and credentialing solutions answer vital questions that help organizations hire the right people for every role. SkillSurvey Reference provides insight into past job performance and is proven to predict future turnover, hiring manager satisfaction, and performance ratings. An unmatched library of scientifically-designed surveys produces job-specific data employers can trust. SkillSurvey Source helps you expand your talent pool through referrals and references. SkillSurvey Post-Hire provides the insight you need to keep the people who make your organization great. Gather ongoing employee and supervisor feedback to develop an exceptional hiring process, build epic onboarding programs, retain your star performers, and create more engaging experiences for every employee. SkillSurvey Credential OnDemand helps healthcare organizations onboard skilled practitioners faster with digital peer referencing that simplifies and enhances the credentialing experience for all participants. SkillSurvey makes the referencing and credentialing process more efficient and effective — helping employers save time and money, grow revenues, and bring employees onboard faster.
Board Member
Jan 2009
BiddingForGood is now a part of Panorama by FrontStream- your all-in-one fundraising platform. BiddingForGood.com is the industry's premier online bidding site, with a bidder community of more than 1.7 million bidders. You can run online auctions, sell tickets, and add mobile bidding to your events.
Board Member
Jan 2009
Yodle is a leader in local online marketing and has been ranked on Forbes’ list of America's Most Promising Companies for the last four years. Yodle helps local businesses find and keep their customers in the simplest, most profitable ways imaginable. Yodle was founded in 2005 and has 50,000+ customers across 250+ industries. Yodle helps local businesses build a strong online presence. Its combination of automated technology and the support of a full service marketing team makes Yodle easy to use and saves considerable time for local business owners. Yodle’s product offerings designed specifically for local businesses include: • Marketing Essentials™, a comprehensive suite of solutions that includes mobile, desktop and social web presence, the ability to collect and manage reviews and photos, social media management, SEO automation, listings syndication across multiple online channels, offer management, and email marketing • Yodle Ads, a proprietary and optimized paid search advertising offering that is available as a complement to Marketing Essentials • Lighthouse 360™, a business practice automation product which automates many of our customers’ daily consumer interactions or office routines such as appointment reminders and is built to improve operational efficiencies Yodle also delivers Centermark™, a distributed marketing automation platform, to networked businesses, i.e., franchises, manufacturers/dealers, and multi-location companies. Yodle has more than 1,200 employees across five offices and has been recognized as a best place to work by numerous organizations. The company is headquartered in New York City and is also based in Austin, TX; Charlotte, NC; Scottsdale, AZ and Atlanta, GA. For more information, visit www.yodle.com, www.yodleinsights.com, or see Yodle reviews from customers at www.yodle.com/success-stories/video-testimonials. You can also find out about careers at Yodle at www.yodlecareers.com and www.yodle.us.
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2023
Board Member
Jul 2023
Retrocausal is the industry leader in intelligence augmentation systems that give superpowers to assembly operators, plant managers, and industrial engineers to dramatically boost the productivity, quality, and safety of shopfloor processes. Retrocausal employs cutting-edge generative AI in the form of its Copilot software to elevate low-skilled labor to take on high-skilled and sophisticated tasks.
2021
Advisor
Apr 2021
Cybernetix Ventures is a venture capital firm leading the way for investment into early-stage robotics, automation, and AI startups. Headquartered in Boston, the world’s epicenter for robotics innovation, Cybernetix connects its portfolio to the national and global robotics ecosystems, bringing unparalleled expertise to companies poised to make major impacts in sectors including advanced manufacturing, logistics/warehousing, architecture, engineering and construction and healthcare/medical devices.
2015
Board Member
Mar 2015
The world’s most engaging customer communities are powered by Influitive. Our easy-to-use platform combines industry-leading customer advocacy tools, expert services, and training with intelligent automation, gamification, and personalization features that drive extreme engagement and customer growth at scale—while minimizing administrative effort and time to value. Customer advocates create and share enriching content that sparks peer-to-peer interactions, leading to authentic, positive customer experiences and greater levels of advocacy. Influitive works with customer-driven digital businesses, including nine of the top ten largest global software companies. Leading brands such as Cisco, Adobe, ADP, and IBM trust Influitive to help foster collaboration, build trust, and deepen relationships with customers for top-line growth and bottom-line profits.
2014
Board Member
Sep 2014
Managing security and compliance is a strategic, economic imperative that directly impacts business outcomes. Ntirety is the only company that embeds compliant security throughout your IT and company culture. Protect the entirety of your enterprise through a comprehensive compliant security solution from a single relationship. With over 20 years of experience and deep security expertise, our three 24x7x365 US-based security operations centers (SOCs) simplify your risk management program with a comprehensive protection, recovery and assurance suite of services. Our approach helps you build resilient, adaptive operations throughout all your organization. Discover the award-winning Ntirety Compliant Security Solution that’s tested, proven, and trusted globally. Learn more at ntirety.com.
2013
Board Member
Jan 2013
Businesses that cannot afford an interruption turn to Ontegrity. Our unique blend of predictive analytics software, site management services and power solutions provide a more accurate picture of site conditions and the right course of action to increase non-stop product and service availability. Ontegrity’s solutions help businesses reduce operating expenses, increase efficiency, comply with regulations, prepare for disasters and improve business resiliency. For more information, please visit our website at www.Ontegrity.com
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