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Ben Levy

General Partner at BootstrapLabs

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Ben Levy is a Co-Founder and General Partner at BootstrapLabs in San Francisco, specializing in investing in Applied AI startups. He has successfully invested in companies like Pryon in Series B funding and Mendel.ai in Series A funding, showcasing a strong track record in identifying and supporting innovative ventures in the tech industry. Levy's expertise in venture capital, entrepreneurship, and strategy has contributed to his role in shaping the future of emerging technologies through strategic investments in various sectors including GovTech, Health IT, and FinTech.

Work Experience 

  • Partner, Co-Head of Venture Capital and AI & Innovation Groups

    2024 - Current

    Mr. Levy is a Partner and Co-Head of the Ares Venture Capital Group, BootstrapLabs, an Ares company, where he focuses on venture capital investing. He is also Co-Head of the AI Innovation Group, which focuses on driving internal AI strategy. Prior to joining Ares in 2024, Mr. Levy was Co-Founder and General Partner at BootstrapLabs, a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley with an applied AI investment thesis since 2015, where he worked with AI portfolio company founders to build and scale technology, products, teams, and operations. Additionally, Mr. Levy was an entrepreneur who launched, built, and exited two startups in the financial technology space, including Praedea Solutions, a data mining software company using machine learning and natural language processing technology, that was acquired by Mergent in 2005, and InsideVenture, a software platform that connects the founders of venture-backed pre-IPO startups and long-only institutional investors on Wall Street, that was acquired by SecondMarket in 2009 (and is now part of NASDAQ).

Ares Management is an alternative asset manager focusing on credit, private equity, and real estate.

Raised $1,603,087,500.00.

  • Partner

    2012

    BootstrapLabs has been making Venture Capital investments since being founded in 2008, and in 2015 was one of the first Venture Capital firms to invest with an AI-first Venture Capital strategy. Since then we have been investing in visionary founders that solve today’s most important and valuable opportunities by applying Artificial Intelligence.

BootstrapLabs is a venture capital firm specializing in Artificial Intelligence.

  • Investor and Board of Director

    2018

    AI-driven precision agriculture for indoor growers.

IUNU is an industrial computer vision company that connects plants, facilities, and people through a single interface.

Raised $45,706,954.00 from S2G Ventures, Lewis & Clark AgriFood, Astanor Ventures, Ceres Partners and S2G Ventures.

  • Investor

    2018

    Payments and working capital infrastructure for industry 4.0

  • Investor and Board Observer

    2018

    AI-powered container logistic and yard management.

NavTrac is a AI-Powered Yard Management System (YMS).

Raised $9,157,000.00 from Mir Ventures, Stanton Green, TenOneTen Ventures, Silicon Valley Data Capital, Alumni Ventures, Blumberg Capital, Wharton Alumni Angels and BootstrapLabs.

  • Investor and Board Observer

    2018

    AI-powered operating systems for Virtual Care.

Complete virtual care platform that delivers personalized and preventative care in the home.

Raised $16,750,000.00 from Movac.

  • Investor

    2017

    AI-driven software platform for quality control.

UnitQ is an AI enabled platform that monitors and transforms product quality with real-time customer feedback insights.

Raised $41,000,000.00 from Zendesk Ventures.

  • Investor

    2017

    Software defined mesh network for AI-of-things

The Nodle network connects the world by using smartphones as nodes to create a digital trust network for social good.

Raised $36,250,000.00 from Mapleblock Capital.

  • Investor and Board Observer

    2017

    AI-driven sales acceleration platform

GetAccept is an all-in-one sales enablement solution that assists B2B sales reps in closing remote deals.

Raised $28,720,000.00 from BootstrapLabs, Amino Capital, Revaia, Robin Haak and Bessemer Venture Partners.

  • Investor

    2017

    AI-powered enterprise knowledge management platform.

Pryon is an enterprise knowledge management platform designed to simplify and accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence.

Raised $159,127,994.00 from Aperture Venture Capital, Omnimed Capital, BootstrapLabs, Triangle Tweener Fund, 7BC Venture Capital, Good Growth Capital, Duke Capital Partners, Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, US Innovative Technology Fund and Breyer Capital.

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