Nelson Bostrom
Head of Partnerships @ Upwind.io | ex-AWS & SAP
San Francisco Bay Area
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Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$500,000.00Target Investment:
$300,000.00
Skills
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Work Experience
2024
Head of Partnerships
2024
Building out Partnerships.
2020
Angel Investor
2020
Pre-seed angel investor.
2019 - 2024
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.
2018 - 2019
Director Of Business Development
2018 - 2019
Fauna is a distributed document-relational database delivered as a cloud API.
2013 - 2018
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)).
2013 - 2016
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.
2012 - 2013
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.
2010 - 2012
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.
2009 - 2010
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.
2007 - 2009
Associate
2007 - 2009
Hercules is a $5B+ debt fund and equity fund. Negotiated and structured terms of debt investments.