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Ben Levy

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

San Francisco, California

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $250,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $3,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $500,000.00

Work Experience

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

    2024

    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).

  • 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.

2018

  • Investor and Board of Director

    2018

    AI-driven precision agriculture for indoor growers.

2018

  • Investor

    2018

    Payments and working capital infrastructure for industry 4.0

2018

  • Investor and Board Observer

    2018

    AI-powered container logistic and yard management.

  • Investor and Board Observer

    2018

    AI-powered operating systems for Virtual Care.

2017

  • Investor

    2017

    AI-driven software platform for quality control.

2017

  • Investor

    2017

    Software defined mesh network for AI-of-things

2017

  • Investor and Board Observer

    2017

    AI-driven sales acceleration platform

2017

  • Investor

    2017

    AI-powered enterprise knowledge management platform.