Ben Levy
General Partner at BootstrapLabs
San Francisco, California
Overview
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.