BOOTSTRAPLABS TEAM

Nicolai Wadstrom

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

Benjamin Levy

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

Mark Mavroudis

Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, Ares Venture Capital and AI Innovation Groups

Fabio Ficano

Managing Director

Erik Starck

Managing Director

Dana Castro

Vice President

Sam Rawstorne

Principal

Peter Dinic

Senior Associate

Lorenzo Donati

Associate

Founded in 2008, BootstrapLabs, an Ares company, is a leading Venture Capital firm based in Silicon Valley and focused on Applied Artificial Intelligence. BootstrapLabs was one of the first VC firms to build an AI-first investment strategy and seeks to invest in visionary founders who solve some of today’s most important and valuable opportunities by applying Artificial Intelligence.

BootstrapLabs is often the first institutional money and acts as a lead investor in the early stages, with follow-on capital at the growth stages.

Through our Venture Studios and Venture Capital funds, we are investing in Artificial Intelligence applied to The Future of Work (FoW)/Productivity, Mobility, Health, Financial Infrastructure, Digital Infrastructure, Energy/Climate, and AI-enabling technologies.

As entrepreneurs ourselves, we know it takes an experienced team amplified by a nurturing community to build successful companies, so we stand by our founders in good times and bad times, because the road to success is paved with setbacks, challenges, and lessons learned from past failures – and building something big is hard.

Ultimately we believe technology should always be used to create a positive impact on society, and that founders should always place fellow humans at the heart of their vision.