Rick Tank

Co-founder at ChangeEngine | Advisor & Investor | Product and Tech Lead | 2x Exits

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2013
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Co-Founder, Board Member, Chief Technology Officer
May 2013
Talent acquisition teams around the world are using RolePoint’s complete referral solution to drive employee engagement and attract the highest quality talent. We help organizations streamline their employee referral program and harness their social capital – bringing talent acquisition in line with today’s social and connected world.
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2021
Co-Founder & CTO
Jul 2021
The challenge people leaders face is that the employee experience design process resides across distributed teams, disparate HR systems, and in many cases, spreadsheets & powerpoints. Once people programs are launched, there’s an initial buzz, then they get swept under the rug in sixty days and it’s onto the next burning need. Creating & executing best-in-class people programs to treat employees like internal customers is extremely manual and time-consuming—they include many moving parts such as goals, branding, content, communications, timeline, rewards, and ROI. In the hybrid workplace, there’s no effective way to manage this. We’re here to change that—our goal is to elevate the role of people leaders everywhere and help them to sustain their people program utilization over time. We’re empowering them to showcase the impact of the people org to their leadership team & board while helping them to get executive buy-in and unlock more budget internally to experiment & run innovative people programs. ChangeEngine’s founder DNA is the fusion between HR & Marketing Tech with RolePoint co-founders and Gigya, WorkSpan, & Sendoso execs. Come ride the tidal wave with us: hello@changeengine.com
Co-founder & Managing Partner
May 2021
GTM Venture Studio, headquartered in San Francisco, CA, orchestrates full stack company creation for next generation SaaS products. Were passionate about building companies from the early stages, providing services for market validation, product development, go-to-market, team formation, M&A support, and early stage investment. We help startup founders to avoid pitfalls by bringing 60+ years of combined SaaS experience, fostering faster time to market, operational clarity, growth, and innovation.
2018
Techstars Mentor
2018
Techstars helps founders scale their startups into world-changing businesses. Founded in 2006, Techstars is on a mission to invest in startups to enable more capital to flow to more entrepreneurs around the world in order to deliver exceptional returns to our investors. We do this by operating accelerator programs and venture capital funds, as well as by connecting startups, investors, corporations, and cities to help build thriving startup communities. Our results show why Techstars is Better for Founders than any other global accelerator: On average, 74.5% of Techstars companies will raise money within 3 years of their program; 18.5% of Techstars portfolio companies have exited 5 years after their program and 31.1% after eight years. (PitchBook June 2023)
2013
Co-Founder, Board Member, Chief Technology Officer
May 2013
Talent acquisition teams around the world are using RolePoint’s complete referral solution to drive employee engagement and attract the highest quality talent. We help organizations streamline their employee referral program and harness their social capital – bringing talent acquisition in line with today’s social and connected world.
2011
Managing Director
Feb 2011
SB.TV Global Ltd, also known as SB.TV or SmokeyBarz, is a multi-faceted company run by a small team of young people who work on web-based viral content at different music-based events. Pioneers in new media, SBTV was founded by Jamal Edwards, MBE 1990 - 2022 playing a key role in shaping British youth culture and giving a voice to the new generation on & off screen talent. Starting in his bedroom and going to discover Ed Sheeran, Dave, Stormzy, Jessie J amongst many others Jamal would lay the foundations for a new model of talent discovery. SBTV is the millennial business that has been integral in pioneering breaking through new talent into the mainstream, specialising in accessing British youth culture. Today, it is an innovative youth media platform, which to date, has amassed over 800 million views and 1.25 million subscribers to its YouTube channel alone. Not to mention its ever growing social media reach. It continues on its mission to Share, Build, Teach and provide the ultimate Vibes. If you want to connect with the 18-34 demographic credibly and in an aspirational tone, there is only one place you should be thinking of, and that’s SBTV