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Erik Bullen

Managing Partner at Gravitate AI

Greater Boston

Overview 

Erik Bullen is a seasoned executive with a background in founding and leading companies, currently serving as a COO/CCO, Board Member, Executive Coach, and Investor. He has excelled in roles such as Founder and Managing Director of bullhaus and as a Board Member and Chief Operating Officer at Three Sages, showcasing expertise in strategy consulting, operations management, and leadership. Bullen's career highlights include founding bullhaus and holding key roles at Three Sages, demonstrating a strong track record in guiding startups and scaleup companies towards success through strategic leadership and operational excellence.

Work Experience 

  • Chief Operating Officer

    2024 - Current

    I lead strategy and operations for Unravel Healthcare (TeamBirth), a mission-driven healthcare innovation, design, product, and services company founded in 2024 as a spinout of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation at Harvard's School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. We work globally with providers, including hospitals, payers, and technology providers, to set new standards in maternal and neonatal care and help implement TeamBirth.

  • Member Board of Directors

    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.

  • 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.

  • Managing Consultant

    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.

  • Angel Investor

    2021

    TBD Angels is a group of angel investors who are current operators at leading startups and executives at major companies.

  • Member Board of Directors

    2020

    EroeGo is the newest online grocery platform for conscious consumers in the Middle East and Africa.

  • Core Member

    2022

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Consultant

    2024 - 2025

    Spinning out Unravel Healthcare from Ariadne Labs.

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