Entries by Benjamin Levy
Post COVID-19 World: The Bullish Case for (early stage) VCs & Founders [Part 3]
RETURN TO PART 2 HERE Applied AI Investment Thesis The case for rapid adoption of Applied Artificial Intelligence across every sector remains valid, and if anything, the roadmap for adoption is being shortened considerably. AI is part of the solution to fight COVID-19 Every day, we read about ways AI is helping fight COVID-19: World’s […]
Post COVID-19 World: The Bullish Case for (early stage) VCs & Founders [Part 2]
RETURN TO PART 1 HERE Exits: IPOs and M&A Landscape Initial Public Offerings – IPOs According to the Renaissance Capital research note of March 27, 2020, “The 2020 IPO market began with optimism and ended with the worst crash since the global financial crisis. 24 IPOs raised $6.8 billion, with as many as 20 companies […]
Post COVID-19 World: The Bullish Case for (early stage) VCs & Founders [Part 1]
Early-stage venture capitalists are in the business of hitting targets most people cannot see. Our focal point is usually set 3 to 5 years into the future. We often discover a future that is already available today but is not yet evenly distributed. This is why founders, like early-stage VCs, need to be visionaries and […]
innogy Innovation Hub and BootstrapLabs to form a Partnership for Investments in AI and Energy
We are proud to announce our partnership with innogy New Ventures LLC, part of the innogy Innovation Hub and an affiliate of innogy SE, a leading German energy company and the third largest utility in Europe with annual revenues of €43 billion (2017). The Energy sector is often overlooked by technology-focused investors that deem it […]
Dear CEOs: Artificial Intelligence is your biggest threat, and your biggest opportunity
It is no secret that artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to take the world by storm. But what exactly does that mean if you are a business leader? It means you need a strategy, and you need to act fast. Just ask Mark Fields, the former CEO of Ford who was replaced back in May […]
Announcing AI PitchForce. Apply now!
Presented by BootstrapLabs and PeopleConnect, AI Pitchforce is a can’t-miss opportunity for AI startup entrepreneurs to present to top angel investors and VCs. It will take place August 25th from 5:00-8:30 PM at Reed Smith, 101 2nd Street, San Francisco. The AI PitchForce judges will be: Ben Levy, Co-Founder, BootstrapLabs Vijay Reddy, Investment Director, Intel […]
BootstrapLabs: Venture Builders in Silicon Valley with a Global Community
When we founded BootstrapLabs eight years ago, we set out to create a company that would empower some of the world’s best technology entrepreneurs to build disruptive companies from Silicon Valley. In our quest to build an efficient and scalable process to empower entrepreneurs, we transformed BootstrapLabs into a world class Venture Builder platform and brought together […]
AngelList: The World’s First On Demand VC-as-a-Service Platform
[Disclaimer: BootstrapLabs is an investor in AngelList and we have two syndicates, BootstrapLabs Syndicate and BootstrapLabs A+ Syndicate with Gil Penchina] Last week I had the good fortune to find myself interviewing Kevin Laws, the COO of AngelList just a few days after they had launched a series of announcements that sent tremors through the entire startup and […]
How to Milk a Unicorn… No Really, How?
Victoria Silchenko recently posted an article on LinkedIn, Confession of Venture Capitalists: How to milk a Unicorn where she interviewed some high profile VCs and Private Capital experts on the recent “private IPO” trend. Great topic, catchy title and excited that BootstrapLabs will be joining the discussion live at her upcoming Global Alternative Funding Forum on November […]
Venture: Seed is the New Series A
In a world where access is king and real “value-add” to startup founders creates true differentiation, some Series A (and even Seed) VC firms are in for a rude awakening. The Shift Seed is the New Series A captures much of what is going on in the startup and VC world these days. The cost […]
Trusted Insight: Disrupting the $6 Trillion Alternative Asset Market
Two weeks ago, we wrote about how AngelList is disrupting the angel investment landscape with its syndication model, and last week we announced our own AngelList syndicate in partnership with Gil Penchina, the #1 AngelList Syndicate lead. Today we would like to tell you about Trusted Insight, a company that is applying the same disruptive […]
BootstrapLabs partners with Gil Penchina, launches AngelList Syndicates
BootstrapLabs is partnering with Gil Penchina, the #1 Syndicate Lead on AngelList with over $6.5M in backing (more info below), and launches its syndicates. Last week we published the blog post “The rise of Angel(List)” because we felt it was important for the world to wake up to AngelList and its disruptive potential when it […]
The Rise of Angel(List) and how it is rapidly changing the game of angel investing
Disclosure: BootstrapLabs invested in AngelList, see our profile here. The cost of building technology companies over the past decade has decreased by a factor of ten. Software has been eating the world, yielding incredible productivity gains that empower entrepreneurs to execute two to five times faster. Globalization, standardization and connectivity have all been driving unprecedented […]