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Min Investment:
$250,000.00Max Investment:
$3,000,000.00Target Investment:
$500,000.00
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Lists including Nicolai
Investments
Charm Solutions
Total Funding: $4M
Southie Autonomy
Total Funding: $3M
Rabot
Total Funding: $2M
Pryon
Total Funding: $180M
Mendel.ai
Total Funding: $65M
Hayden AI
Total Funding: $11M
Kountable Inc.
Total Funding:
GetAccept
Total Funding: $29M
unitQ
Total Funding: $11M
Nodle
Total Funding: $6.3M
INDUS.AI
Total Funding: $12M
Myia Health
Total Funding: $17M
Corpay One
Total Funding: $7M
IUNU
Total Funding: $14M
Valued
Total Funding: $2M
NavTrac
Total Funding: $2M
VoiceMe.AI
Total Funding:
discourse.ai
Total Funding:
Sibly
Total Funding:
Cargo Chief
Total Funding: $3M
Pinn
Total Funding:
Fortella
Total Funding: $3M
Pingpad
Total Funding: $1M
SmartEar
Total Funding:
Vidora
Total Funding:
Selfycart
Total Funding: $1M
AEye
Total Funding: $3M
Shoppertise
Total Funding:
BootstrapWorks
Total Funding:
Zerply
Total Funding:
Trusted Insight
Total Funding: $8M
Feelit
Total Funding: $300K
XtGem
Total Funding: $250K
AngelList
Total Funding: $70M
Witsbits
Total Funding:
Prezi
Total Funding: $73M
BootstrapLabs
Total Funding: $600K
Work Experience
Partner, Co-Head of Venture Capital and AI & Innovation Groups
2024
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.
2022
Investor
2022
Board Director / General Partner in BootstrapLabs 3rd Applied AI Fund.
2020
Investor
2020
Board Observer & as a General Partner in BootstrapLabs 3rd Applied AI Fund.
2018
Investor
2018
Investment as General Partner in BootstrapLabs Applied AI Funds and Board Member.
2008
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.
2017
Investor
2017
Investment as General Partner in BootstrapLabs Applied AI Funds.
2018
Investor
2018
Investment as General Partner in BootstrapLabs Applied AI Funds.
2016
Investor
2016
Investment as General Partner in BootstrapLabs Applied AI Funds.
2017
Investor
2017
Investment as General Partner in BootstrapLabs Applied AI Funds.
2018
Investor
2018
Investment as General Partner in BootstrapLabs Applied AI Funds.