Ric Fulop
General Partner @ North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity
Lexington, United States
Ric Fulop is a Series A investor at North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity in Lexington focused on Software and Hardware. Ric Fulop is the CEO and co-founder of Desktop Metal, a company committed to accelerating the transformation of manufacturing with end-to-end metal 3D printing solutions. Founded in 2015 by leaders in advanced manufacturing, materials science, and robotics, the company is addressing the unmet challenges of speed, cost, and quality to make metal 3Dprinting an essential tool for engineers and manufacturers around the world. Prior to founding Desktop Metal in October 2015, Ric was a General Partner at North Bridge, a VC fund with $3 billion under management, for five years following a fifteen-year career as an entrepreneur. Fulop is the founder of six technology companies, including A123 Systems, Boston's largest IPO in the past decade and one of the world’s largest automotive lithium ion suppliers with revenue exceeding $500M in 2016. At North Bridge, Ric led the software and 3D investing practices, and was an early stage investor and board member in Dyn (acquired by Oracle for $600 million), Onshape, MarkForged, Salsify, Lytro and Gridco.Ric is a former Board Member of the Electric Drive Transportation Association and holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School where he was a Sloan Fellow.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 15%
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Industries Ric Fulop invests in
Stages Ric Fulop invests in
Countries Ric Fulop invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Series A
- $8M–$13M
- Series B
- $10M–$40M
- Series C
- $11M–$30M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (31%)
- Hardware 2 (15%)
- Analytics 2 (15%)
- Virtual Reality 2 (15%)
- CAD 1 (8%)
Stage
- Series A 3 (23%)
- Series B 3 (23%)
- Series C 2 (15%)
- Funding Round 2 (15%)
- Series D 1 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Vicarious Surgical is a next generation robotics company developing a disruptive technology with the goal of increasing the efficiency of surgical procedures, improving patient outcomes and reducing healthcare costs. | $13.2M / Series A / Aug 07, 2020 | ||
| Digits is a fintech company building tools for businesses and finance professionals by leveraging its proprietary Living Model technology. The company was founded by Wayne Chang and Jeff Seibert in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. | $10.5M / Series A / Nov 06, 2019 | ||
| Founded in 2010, Gridco Systems is introducing a new class of intelligent power distribution solutions that enable utilities to meet the evolving demands of the 21st century electric grid. Our solutions leverage recent advances in power electronics in combination with distributed intelligent control systems to dynamically manage power distributionbelow the substation with an unprecedented level of predictability and precision. | $12M / Oct 06, 2016 | ||
| Onshape is a product development platform that unites CAD, data management, collaboration tools, and real-time analytics. Its modern CAD system eliminates design gridlock so professional engineers can do their best work. Onshape unites advanced modeling tools and design data management in a secure cloud workspace that is accessible on any deviceand never loses data. Professional engineers at thousands of companies rely on Onshape to modernize their design process. Onshape users have logged over 3 million hours modeling advanced robotics, biomedical devices, industrial machinery, and myriad other products.Founded in 2012 by the creators of SOLIDWORKS, Onshape has raised $169 million from Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, North Bridge, and other leading investors. | $105M / Series D / Apr 14, 2016 | ||
| Onshape is a product development platform that unites CAD, data management, collaboration tools, and real-time analytics. Its modern CAD system eliminates design gridlock so professional engineers can do their best work. Onshape unites advanced modeling tools and design data management in a secure cloud workspace that is accessible on any deviceand never loses data. Professional engineers at thousands of companies rely on Onshape to modernize their design process. Onshape users have logged over 3 million hours modeling advanced robotics, biomedical devices, industrial machinery, and myriad other products.Founded in 2012 by the creators of SOLIDWORKS, Onshape has raised $169 million from Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, North Bridge, and other leading investors. | $80M / Sep 15, 2015 | ||
| Salsify is an e-commerce software startup that helps brands by providing tools to track and analyze inventories, presentation, and sales of goods on digital shelves.It offers its Commerce Experience Management (CommerceXM), a platform that combines Product Experience Management (Integrated PIM, DAM, and Experience Builder) with commercecapabilities designed to enable sales both across retailer and distributor channels as well as marketplaces, social commerce, and direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites. The company is backed by Venrock, Matrix Partners, Greenspring Associates, Underscore VC, North Bridge, and Warburg Pincus.Jason Purcell, Jeremy Redburn, and Rob Gonzalez incorporated Salsify in Boston, Massachusetts in 2012. | $16.6M / Series B / Jul 06, 2015 | ||
| Lytro is building the world’s most powerful Light Field imaging platform enabling artists, scientists and innovators to pursue their goals with an unprecedented level of freedom and control. Lytro was founded in 2006 by Executive Chairman Ren Ng, whose Ph.D. research on Light Field imaging won Stanford University’s prize for best thesis incomputer science. In 2012, Lytro released its first generation imaging platform featuring the world’s initial consumer Light Field camera. In 2014, the second-generation imaging platform was released featuring the Lytro ILLUM, Lytro Desktop, Lytro iOS Mobile Application and the Lytro Development Kit, empowering organizations beyond the domain of photography to harness the full potential of Light Field.In 2015, Lytro announced its expansion into cinematography, virtual reality, and scientific and industrial applications, positioning itself as the hub of a new technology ecosystem that extends the transformational power of Light Field imaging across industries. The company also released significant updates for Lytro ILLUM and Lytro Power Tools, giving users direct access to explore Light Field via its existing products – an unprecedented move for a computational imaging company.Based in Mountain View, CA, Lytro is backed by top-tier VCs including Andreessen-Horowitz, Greylock Partners and NEA. | $10.5M / Series C / Nov 13, 2014 | ||
| Founded in 2010, Gridco Systems is introducing a new class of intelligent power distribution solutions that enable utilities to meet the evolving demands of the 21st century electric grid. Our solutions leverage recent advances in power electronics in combination with distributed intelligent control systems to dynamically manage power distributionbelow the substation with an unprecedented level of predictability and precision. | $12M / Jul 01, 2014 | ||
| Onshape is a product development platform that unites CAD, data management, collaboration tools, and real-time analytics. Its modern CAD system eliminates design gridlock so professional engineers can do their best work. Onshape unites advanced modeling tools and design data management in a secure cloud workspace that is accessible on any deviceand never loses data. Professional engineers at thousands of companies rely on Onshape to modernize their design process. Onshape users have logged over 3 million hours modeling advanced robotics, biomedical devices, industrial machinery, and myriad other products.Founded in 2012 by the creators of SOLIDWORKS, Onshape has raised $169 million from Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, North Bridge, and other leading investors. | $30M / Series C / Jan 28, 2014 | ||
| Founded in 2010, Gridco Systems is introducing a new class of intelligent power distribution solutions that enable utilities to meet the evolving demands of the 21st century electric grid. Our solutions leverage recent advances in power electronics in combination with distributed intelligent control systems to dynamically manage power distributionbelow the substation with an unprecedented level of predictability and precision. | $10M / Series B / Nov 26, 2013 | ||
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Co-Investors
North Bridge provides seed-to-growth stage funding for businesses in several sectors such as software, communications and infrastructure, digital media, healthcare, and material production.North Bridge Venture Partners invests in exceptional people whose ideas have the potential to disrupt the way they live and work. They provide seed-to-growthfinancing to help transform those ideas into companies and those companies into market leaders.
North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity Contacts
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Jeff McCarthy
General Partner
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Bill Burgess
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Carmichael Roberts
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Christopher E. Cavanagh
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Ed Anderson
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FAQ
What does Ric Fulop invest in?
Ric Fulop invests primarily in Software, Hardware and Analytics startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Ric Fulop's check size?
Ric Fulop typically joins rounds of $8M–$13M at Series A, $10M–$40M at Series B and $11M–$30M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ric Fulop participates in.
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When did Ric Fulop last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Ric Fulop closed in Aug 2020. Shizune tracks 13 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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