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The Silicon Valley Exodus
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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
Founder, CEO & General Partner
2008 - Current
Founded by Nicolai Wadstrom in 2008, BootstrapLabs is a leading Venture Capital firm based in Silicon Valley and focused on Applied Artificial Intelligence. We invest in founders that dream big and are solving today’s hardest problem by applying artificial intelligence to shape a better future for humanity. 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. Artificial Intelligence is impacting every single sector and we are particularly excited about Transportation/Logistics, Energy, Future of Work (FoW), Security, Internet of Things (IoT), HealthTech, and FinTech. As entrepreneurs ourselves, we know it takes an exceptional 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.
BootstrapLabs is a venture capital firm specializing in Artificial Intelligence.
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
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.
Investor
2016
Investment as General Partner in BootstrapLabs Applied AI Funds.
Investments
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