Nelson Bostrom
GTM Technology Partnerships at Amazon Web Services
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Head of Partnerships
2024 - Current
Building out Partnerships.
Upwind Security provides cybersecurity solutions to protect organizations from digital threats and vulnerabilities.
Raised $180,000,000.00 from Craft Ventures, Greylock, TCV, Penny Jar Capital, Cyberstarts, Sheva Capital, Cerca Partners, Leaders Fund, Alta Park Capital and Cerca Partners.
Angel Investor
2020
Pre-seed angel investor.
Startup GTM Technology Partnerships (Group Manager)
2021 - 2024
Led the global startup co-sell team. We helped startups partner with and sell with the AWS sales organization.
ISV Success Manager - Startups
2019 - 2021
Helped startups partner with AWS to achieve joint customer success with the AWS sales organization.
Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Director Of Business Development
2018 - 2019
Fauna is a distributed document-relational database delivered as a cloud API.
Startup Sales & Partnerships; Corporate Strategy Group - Senior Director
2013 - 2018
Startup Sales / GTM Leader - Enabled startups to grow with SAP through solutions, partnerships, etc.; lead sales program covering venture-backed startups of all sizes with SAP’s full portfolio. Managed a small team. Director of Strategy & Operations - Business Development & Global Ecosystem Supported leadership on planning, reporting, strategy, etc.. Senior Manager - Corporate Strategy Group Supported senior leadership team to execute on SAP's strategy to transition to the Cloud (focus areas included: Cloud applications for HR/CRM/financials/travel/business network, data center strategy, private cloud, internal communications) Senior Manager - Business Operations, SAP Cloud Drove strategic and operational initiatives across SAP's cloud business (SuccessFactors (HR), Ariba (Procurement) and SAP (CRM)).
SAP IoT Start up Accelerator is a global co-innovation program for B2B startups innovating in the world of the Internet of Things.
Board Member
2013 - 2016
TNDC (www.tndc.org) builds and maintains affordable housing and provides support services for 8,000+ residents across 50 buildings in San Francisco.
Tenderloin Neighborhood Development is a non- profit organization that offers homes, health, and community support services.
Business Development & OEM Sales Manager
2012 - 2013
Janrain provided a SaaS user management platform with solutions for social login, social sharing, and profile data collection and storage to help companies improve user acquisition, intelligence and engagement. It was acquired by Akamai for ~$100M.
Corporate Strategy Senior Associate
2010 - 2012
I worked on a wide range of internal and external facing projects, including market/competitive research, business development, business unit optimization, sales strategy, etc.. Level 3 was acquired by CenturyLink, and then rebranded to Lumen.
Level 3 Communications is an international communications company developing IP transit networks in North America and Europe.
Raised $13,700,000.00 from National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
Associate
2009 - 2010
TeleSoft Partners is a bootstrapped company that was founded in 1996. Since then, TeleSoft Partners has raised $625+ million in private capital and SBIC leverage commitments. TeleSoft has recruited a strong team of investment professionals; developed a network of industry executives and corporate partners in the US, Europe, Israel and India; and built a high quality portfolio of communication and information technology companies. At TeleSoft Partners, Nelson performed a full range of analytical responsibilities, including: financial analysis, modeling and industry research. In particular, Nelson spent most of his time working directly with senior management at Nexant, a clean energy software and consulting company. His responsibilities included assisting in finance, operations and other capacities. He conducted extensive market and product research.
TeleSoft Partners provides value-added capital for technology, communications and energy value chain companies.
Associate
2007 - 2009
Hercules is a $5B+ debt fund and equity fund. Negotiated and structured terms of debt investments.
Hercules Capital offers clients an alternative investment vehicle through which they can have access to venture capital investments.
Raised $6,500,000.00 from AloStar.