About

Eric Tribe

Operator and strategist. I help companies build and ship new ventures, 0 to 1, in the AI era.

I've built companies as an operator and advised them as a strategist. My work now sits where those meet: helping organizations turn new ideas into real, growing businesses, the part most find genuinely hard.

As an operator, I helped scale Flashfood from 4 to more than 2,000 partner stores as Chief Revenue and Marketplace Officer, building the marketplace behind 145M+ pounds of food kept out of landfill and over $370M in shopper savings. As a strategist across 15 years at BCG and McKinsey, I led major transformations and stood up new businesses for global enterprises, including AI-enabled work well before AI was the headline.

Today I run Tribe Ventures, advising on corporate venture-building, and I partner with the innovation studio at Pioneer Square Labs. I write weekly at Infinite Momentum.

Eric Tribe

Experience

Tribe Ventures
2024 – Present
Founder. Advisory partnership with founders and corporate innovation teams.
Pioneer Square Labs
2025 – Present
Partner, Head of Innovation Studio. AI-native venture studio building with Fortune 100 partners.
McKinsey & Company
2022 – 2024
Expert Associate Partner. Global Lead for Leap, the firm's new-business-building practice.
Flashfood
2019 – 2022
Chief Revenue Officer, previously Chief Marketplace Officer and VP Partnerships. Early employee.
Boston Consulting Group
2008 – 2019
Principal. Global Topic Lead for AI/ML Personalization. Delivered $250M+ in incremental revenue across retail and airlines.

Now · June 2026

  • Building a new consumer venture.
  • Running AI-native corporate venture programs with Pioneer Square Labs.
  • Advising select AI-native B2B founders through Tribe Ventures.
  • Writing weekly at Infinite Momentum.

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