Rick Thompson (@rl_thompson) — Twitter Score 13 out of 1000

Rick Thompson is a technology entrepreneur and investor who founded Signia Venture Partners and has co-founded and exited multiple venture-backed companies. Rick Thompson's Twitter Score is 13 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #76,238 among 498,071 tracked accounts.

Rick Thompson founded Flycast, which completed an IPO in 1999 and was subsequently acquired by CMGI in 2000. He then co-founded Adify, which was acquired by a wholly owned Cox Enterprises subsidiary for $300 million in April 2008, and co-founded Playdom, which The Walt Disney Company acquired for $760 million. He also co-founded Funzio, which was sold to GREE in 2012 for $210 million. Earlier in his career, Rick Thompson previously worked at Octel Communications as its first engineer.

Rick Thompson founded Signia Venture Partners, a venture firm whose second fund closed at $85 million in 2016. Signia Venture Partners was among the investors backing SKALE Labs, the team behind SKALE, an EVM-compatible blockchain network whose chains maintain independent state and consensus while using control-plane contracts hosted on Ethereum and other supported base networks. Rick Thompson serves on the board of SKALE, as well as on the boards of Manscaped, Inertia Systems, and Nativo.

Rick Thompson has 2,759 followers as of October 2026 on the platform and has published 300 posts. Rick Thompson has been mentioned by 9 accounts, with 36 total mentions.

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The accounts that follow Rick Thompson include 61 founders, 19 angel investors, 7 influencers and 4 VCs. Among them are Marc Andreessen, David Sacks, Chamath Palihapitiya, Bill Gurley, Vinny Lingham and Mike Maples, Jr.