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Nicolai Wadstrom
Founder, CEO & General Partner of BootstrapLabs, the leading Artificial Intelligence Investor firm since 2015. Founder, Investor, CEO, CTO & Speaker.
San Francisco, California
Overview
Nicolai Wadstrom is the Founder, CEO & General Partner of BootstrapLabs, a prominent Artificial Intelligence VC firm since 2015. With a focus on investing in innovative startups in sectors such as EnergyTech, Health IT, and AI, he has successfully invested in companies like Mendel.ai, GetAccept, and Myia Health, showcasing his expertise in entrepreneurship and venture capital.
Wadstrom's career highlights include founding BootstrapLabs, a leading AI VC firm, and making strategic investments in a diverse range of companies like Pryon, Hayden AI, and Nodle, demonstrating his strong track record in identifying and supporting promising startups.
Work Experience
Partner, Co-Head of Venture Capital and AI & Innovation Groups
2024 - Current
Mr. Wadstrom 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 Ares AI Innovation Group, which focuses on driving internal AI strategy. Prior to joining Ares in 2024, Mr. Wadstrom was the Founder, CEO, and General Partner of 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. Prior to this he was an angel investor in early-stage technology companies in the US and Europe. Since February 2024, BootstrapLabs is part of Ares Management.
Ares Management is an alternative asset manager focusing on credit, private equity, and real estate.
Raised $1,603,087,500.00.
Investor
2022
Board Director / General Partner in BootstrapLabs 3rd Applied AI Fund.
Charm Solutions revolutionise the loan process by harnessing data's potential.
Raised $3,500,000.00 from BootstrapLabs.
Investor
2020
Board Observer & as a General Partner in BootstrapLabs 3rd Applied AI Fund.
Mobile traffic enforcement platform
Raised $193,407,440.00 from The Rise Fund, Autotech Ventures, FJ Labs and The Drawdown Fund.
Investor
2018
Investment as General Partner in BootstrapLabs Applied AI Funds and Board Member.
Founder, CEO & General Partner
2008
Founder of BootstrapLabs, that 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
2017
Investment as General Partner in BootstrapLabs Applied AI Funds.
Vidora enhances the performance of Marketing and Product teams with No-Code Machine Learning that continuously learns through automation.
Investor
2018
Investment as General Partner in BootstrapLabs Applied AI Funds.
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
2016
Investment as General Partner in BootstrapLabs Applied AI Funds.
Investor
2017
Investment as General Partner in BootstrapLabs Applied AI Funds.
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.
Investor
2018
Investment as General Partner in BootstrapLabs Applied AI Funds.
Complete virtual care platform that delivers personalized and preventative care in the home.
Raised $16,750,000.00 from Movac.
Investments
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