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Rick Morris
Member #56FounderBetaL2Founder & CEO, Thrive Technologies
Founder, Thrive Technologies, AI inventory optimization for distributors
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About
Rick Morris is the Founder and CEO of Thrive Technologies, a Marietta, Georgia company whose AI inventory platform helps multi-location wholesale distributors cut dead stock and lost sales by tuning the settings in their existing ERP systems. Rick founded Thrive in 2001 and is a Certified Supply Chain Professional who has written about inventory topics such as measuring vendor lead times. He now focuses on AI-driven forecasting and inventory optimization that works without a large software implementation.
Raises & exits
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Led by Campus Founders Fund
Thrive Technologies raised a pre-seed round from Campus Founders Fund.
Experience
VP Business Development · Opus Solutions
Dir of Sales and Marketing, Visionware Division · Kronos
Education
University of Cincinnati Carl H. Lindner College of Business
NH
Northwest Hs
