Bio

Ric Fulop is the founder and CEO of Desktop Metal, the leader in 3D Printing technology for high volume mass production of metal, ceramics and photopolymer parts. DM has over 6000 customers, +1000 employees and 650 patents and is the global market share leader in binder jet additive manufacturing and is one of the leading suppliers of DLP photopolymer printing systems and materials for mass production. Prior to founding DM, Ric was a General Partner at North Bridge for five years following a career as an entrepreneur that spanned hands-on experience from seed to multiple IPOs. At North Bridge Ric led the Series A rounds in Onshape (acquired by NASDAQ: PTC), MarkForged (NASDAQ: MKFG), Salsify and Dyn (acquired by NASDAQ: ORCL). Ric led the North Bridge software and 3D investing practices. North Bridge was the original Series A investor in several of the companies that have changed the 3D landscape including SolidWorks (acquired by NASDAQ: DASTY), ProtoLabs (NASDAQ: PRLB), SpaceClaim (acquired by NASDAQ: ANSS) and Revit (acquired by NASDAQ: ADSK). In 2001, he founded A123Systems, which invented and commercialized the first cobalt free Li Ion batteries now used widely in automotive (LFP). At his departure the company had a public market capitalization of $1.5 billion, 1,800 employees and had shipped hundreds of millions of dollars in state-of-the-art energy storage systems. Today A123Systems is part of Wanxiang Group and is the market share leader in start/stop automotive ESS, heavy duty hybrid ESS, motorsports hybrid ESS (used by most Formula 1 teams and 3 time winner of LeMans LMP1). Its products are used by almost every transportation OEM ranging from every NYC public transport busses to McLaren supercars. It's grid battery spin-off has deployed over 750MW of commercial grid storage projects. Ric is a member of the Board of Governors of the World Economic Forum Advanced Manufacturing initiative, a board member of Vicarious Surgical [NYSE: RBOT], a co-founder and Chairman of Meter Inspection which manufactures a new class of highly affordable CT system for printed parts, a former board member of Endeavor.org and former Board Member of the Electric Drive Transportation Association. Ric is an avid pilot and holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School.