Benjamin Levy

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).

Previously, Mr. Levy was a Technology, Media, and Telecom Investment Banker at Lazard, SG Cowen, Houlihan Lokey, Wedbush Securities, and QuantumWave Capital where he advised CxOs of Fortune 500 companies and startup founders on mergers and acquisitions, corporate strategy and financing. Mr. Levy is a member of the Association for the Advancement of AI (AAAI). He is a frequent industry speaker on topics such as innovation, technology investing, entrepreneurship and artificial intelligence in the US, Europe and Asia. He is currently a member of the board of Looq AI, IUNU, and Southie Autonomy, among others. He holds a B.S. from the University of Paris IX Dauphine in Finance and Economy and an M.B.A. in Corporate Finance from the University of Paris X Nanterre, where he graduated as valedictorian.