BootstrapLabs

BootstrapLabs is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, established in 2008, that specializes in early-stage investments with a focus on Applied Artificial Intelligence. The firm invests in startups across various sectors including fintech, transportation, logistics, energy, healthcare, and technology. It aims to support foreign-born entrepreneurs from Asia and Europe in navigating Silicon Valley and American markets through two accelerator programs: the Global Accelerator Program, which connects international startups to Silicon Valley for six months, and the Local Accelerator Program in Southeast Asia. BootstrapLabs typically invests up to $0.1 million in promising startups that have a minimum of two team members capable of coding and building user experiences. With a strong emphasis on potentially disruptive technologies, the firm has established itself as a leader in the AI investment space, having launched multiple funds dedicated to this area.

Luigi Congedo

Venture Capital Analyst and Principal

Benjamin Levy

Co-Founder and General Partner, Bootstraplabs

Susan (Boedy) Stella

Investor Relations Bootstraplabs

Nicolai Wadstrom

CEO, Founder, General Partner, Bootstraplabs

68 past transactions

Witsbits

Seed Round in 2010
Witsbits is a provider of cloud computing services. The company's flagship product, Go Cloud, is a software based cloud hosting platform that turns existing infrastructure into a full-blown public cloud, including both storage and computing.

Myia Labs

Seed Round in 2018
Myia is a seamless and invisible intelligent health platform that monitors and engages patients beyond the clinical setting. Myia brings clinically valuable meaning and action to our own data. Today, readily available biosensors provide a stream of personal and vital health data and yet very little value for patients and caregivers. Myia bridges this gap. By providing actionable and immediate insights on patient condition, Myia improves quality of life for patients and predicts and prevents costly medical events for care providers.

Nodle

Seed Round in 2019
Nodle is building a global low cost, low energy connectivity service for the IoT. Using bluetooth, Nodle is a perfect solution for devices such as tracking devices, air sensors, smartwatches, fitness trackers and home appliances. This is opening up new opportunities for hardware manufacturers and lowering the barriers to entry to build innovative IoT solutions and hardware. This “crowd-sourced” connectivity network provides also an alternative source of revenues for device makers, network operators and app developers while preserving users privacy.

Cargo Chief

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Cargo Chief arithmetically matches trucking supply and demand with unparalleled integrations. Leveraging award-winning patented technology we help buyers of freight services instantly find available well vetted capacity. Our well received technology provides data, automation and network advantages for our clients and us. Our experienced team is backed by dozens of angels and a seed VC.

GetAccept

Series B in 2020
Founded and developed by salespeople, GetAccept helps sales reps accelerate the sales process from the first conversation to a sealed contract. It provides the best all-in-one sales platform where video, live chat, sales content, proposal design, document tracking, and e-signatures come together to simplify the life of every sales team. With GetAccept, sales reps forge relationships and build trust with the buyer in a remote and digital-first world.

Rabot

Pre Seed Round in 2022
We build smart tools for warehouses.

unitQ

Series A in 2020
unitQ develops real-time solutions for staying on top of product quality across platforms, languages, and regions. The company is headquartered in the United States.

AngelList

Seed Round in 2012
AngelList is a platform for startups, angel investors, and job-seekers looking to work at startups. AngelList's goal is also to democratize the investment process. In 2014, the company raised $104 million online. It has also funded 243 startups. In 2015, they've made over 548K introductions between job-seekers and companies. Founded by Babak Nivi and Naval Ravikant in 2010, AngelList is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Pryon

Private Placement in 2019
Pryon Inc. is an artificial intelligence (AI) company that creates an augmented intelligence platform for the enterprise that combines the strengths of humans and machines. Its augmented intelligence platform orchestrates information across channels, endpoints, and sources with context awareness, disambiguation, inference, natural language, and other AI techniques; and grants access to knowledge, processes, and decisions without the cumbersome layers that slow work down. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Raleigh, North Carolina.

SmartEar

Seed Round in 2017
SmartEar is building out the world’s first proprietary smart ear technology platform that will revolutionize the ear. The magic behind the SmartEar is the device and its integration into the SmartEar artificial intelligence (AI) hearing platform that will manage your ears. SmartEar will be a cool comfortable device that can be kept in your ear all day and night, that will protect and manage your auditory environment, enhance the way you interact with your smart phone and other devices, while monitoring your health and fitness in a safe and seamless way.

Hayden AI

Seed Round in 2021
California-based Hayden AI Technologies, Inc. has developed an artificial intelligence-powered data collection platform for smart and safe cities to make their traffic flow faster and far more efficiently. The company is partnering with the world’s most innovative cities to deploy its vision-based mobile solution in a city’s fleet of vehicles to collect real-time data for the enforcement of traffic laws and other data services.

Myia Labs

Private Placement in 2018
Myia is a seamless and invisible intelligent health platform that monitors and engages patients beyond the clinical setting. Myia brings clinically valuable meaning and action to our own data. Today, readily available biosensors provide a stream of personal and vital health data and yet very little value for patients and caregivers. Myia bridges this gap. By providing actionable and immediate insights on patient condition, Myia improves quality of life for patients and predicts and prevents costly medical events for care providers.

GetAccept

Series A in 2019
Founded and developed by salespeople, GetAccept helps sales reps accelerate the sales process from the first conversation to a sealed contract. It provides the best all-in-one sales platform where video, live chat, sales content, proposal design, document tracking, and e-signatures come together to simplify the life of every sales team. With GetAccept, sales reps forge relationships and build trust with the buyer in a remote and digital-first world.

Valued

Seed Round in 2019
Qurious.io is a eal-time voice A.I. platform that enables sales leaders to scale their organizations better and faster, at lower cost. Harnessing the power of artificial intelligence, Qurious learns what works and continuously evolves playbooks so that they are always relevant and effective. The company's machine learning platform offers understanding of real-time voice communication enabling companies to analyze, control, and optimize all voice communication between their employees and the outside world.

Fortella

Seed Round in 2017
Fortella provides a cloud-based revenue driven marketing platform for B2B companies. The company’s platform aligns marketing planning and execution. It serves customers in business functions, including finance, product, sales, and customer success. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Feelit

Seed Round in 2014
Feelit is a social platform for people to express their feelings and communicate through them. Users have a timeline filled with the feelings of the people they’re following, and they can express their own feelings and attach them to pictures or text. They can also see the trending feelings in colorful bubbles that shrink or grow depending on how many people feel a certain way. They also have a feature called cheer-ups inbox where users can send messages to cheer each others up.

Valued

Seed Round in 2016
Qurious.io is a eal-time voice A.I. platform that enables sales leaders to scale their organizations better and faster, at lower cost. Harnessing the power of artificial intelligence, Qurious learns what works and continuously evolves playbooks so that they are always relevant and effective. The company's machine learning platform offers understanding of real-time voice communication enabling companies to analyze, control, and optimize all voice communication between their employees and the outside world.

IUNU

Private Placement in 2018
iUNU is an industrial computer vision company that connects plants, facilities, and people through a single interface. Luna turns commercial greenhouses into precise, predictable, demand-based manufacturers. Luna is an AI born in the heart of Seattle; trained in Silicon Valley and the greenhouses of Skagit Valley; accessible from everywhere. Founded in 2013, iUNU is an industrial computer vision company headquartered in Seattle, with offices in San Francisco and San Diego.

VoiceMe.AI

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Hands-free messaging platform that solves a problem encountered by about 3 billion deskless people worldwide.

Nodle

Seed Round in 2019
Nodle is building a global low cost, low energy connectivity service for the IoT. Using bluetooth, Nodle is a perfect solution for devices such as tracking devices, air sensors, smartwatches, fitness trackers and home appliances. This is opening up new opportunities for hardware manufacturers and lowering the barriers to entry to build innovative IoT solutions and hardware. This “crowd-sourced” connectivity network provides also an alternative source of revenues for device makers, network operators and app developers while preserving users privacy.

INDUS.AI

Seed Round in 2018
indus.ai, Inc., a technology company, provides a construction Intelligence-as-a-Service software to organize chaos involving people, equipment, and materials in construction sites. It offers Indus.ai, an AI-enabled computer vision software platform that allows users to gain insights about their job sites; install cameras to provide images/videos from their site and the platform turns those into analytics and insights. The company’s solutions are used for developers, general contractors, owners, safety and compliance, and construction intelligence. indus.ai, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in Thornhill, Canada.

Corpay One

Private Placement in 2019
Roger.ai is a bill pay and accounts payable automation for SMBs and accountants. Roger.ai gives users the time back by getting all the boring daily financial work done via automated workflows for things like bill pay, approvals, compliance, and expenses. Users can pay any bill or invoice in a second or less, cut time spent on managing accounts payable, paying bills, and worrying about it. It has a powerful approval flow and a full AP automation with accounting system integrations. Roger.ai was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in Copenhagen.

unitQ

Private Placement in 2020
unitQ develops real-time solutions for staying on top of product quality across platforms, languages, and regions. The company is headquartered in the United States.

Liopa

Private Placement in 2018
Liopa Ltd provides a biometric authentication and verification technology solution. It offers LipVerify, which validates a user’s identity by analyzing the appearance and movement of their lips as they speak into a camera. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Belfast, United Kingdom.

Vidora

Seed Round in 2017
Vidora’s mission is to enhance the performance of Marketing and Product teams with No-Code Machine Learning. Our Machine Learning Platform, Cortex, allows teams to use predictions to continually optimize conversions and engagement, while providing end-to-end automation, allowing teams to create hundreds of predictions without the risk and cost of building in house. The largest global brands like Walmart, News Corp, and Discovery, leverage Cortex to intelligently learn from continuous streams of raw data to drive higher performance and automation across the enterprise.

Pinn

Seed Round in 2017
Pinn operates a retail payment platform. It was formerly known as DebitForward. The company is based in the United States.

XtGem

Seed Round in 2014
XtGem provides an all-in-one solution for anyone looking to build a mobile site - from personal blogs to businesses wanting to grow and represent their brand in the mobile market. In addition to intuitive WYSIWYG-based tools, customers gain access to powerful developer features, including full source code editing support, cloud hosting and custom domain support.

Selfycart

Seed Round in 2016
Selfycart Inc. provides an app that enables a secure way to checkout. It offers Selfycart, a mobile shopping app that allows business customers to scan product barcodes from store shelves, pay on their phones, verify their purchases, and exit the store without waiting in line traditional checkout lines. Selfycart Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in San Jose, California.

Hayden AI

Private Placement in 2020
California-based Hayden AI Technologies, Inc. has developed an artificial intelligence-powered data collection platform for smart and safe cities to make their traffic flow faster and far more efficiently. The company is partnering with the world’s most innovative cities to deploy its vision-based mobile solution in a city’s fleet of vehicles to collect real-time data for the enforcement of traffic laws and other data services.

GetAccept

Private Placement in 2019
Founded and developed by salespeople, GetAccept helps sales reps accelerate the sales process from the first conversation to a sealed contract. It provides the best all-in-one sales platform where video, live chat, sales content, proposal design, document tracking, and e-signatures come together to simplify the life of every sales team. With GetAccept, sales reps forge relationships and build trust with the buyer in a remote and digital-first world.

Sibly

Venture Round in 2018
Sibly, Inc. develops a behavioral artificial intelligence based health platform that uses real time solutions to address mental and behavioral health. The company applies tools that include reflective listening, motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioral materials, and other empirically-based strategies. It drives speed of intervention and allows real-time quality control. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Shoppertise

Seed Round in 2016
Shoppertise is a mobile commerce platform that empowers small business owners with smarter, safer, and easier ways to sell their products and services online. This platform includes Shoppertise Marketplace (A curated marketplace with uniquely designed goods) and Shoppertise Pocketbook (An app designed to help you manage your small business on-the-go).

AEye

Seed Round in 2016
AEye is an artificial perception pioneer and creator of iDAR, a perception system that acts as the eyes and visual cortex of autonomous vehicles. Since the demonstration of its solid-state LiDAR scanner in 2013, AEye has pioneered breakthroughs in intelligent sensing. The company is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and backed by world-renowned investors including Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Taiwania Capital, Hella Ventures, LG Electronics, Subaru-SBI, Aisin, Intel Capital, Airbus Ventures, and others.

Myia Labs

Series A in 2019
Myia is a seamless and invisible intelligent health platform that monitors and engages patients beyond the clinical setting. Myia brings clinically valuable meaning and action to our own data. Today, readily available biosensors provide a stream of personal and vital health data and yet very little value for patients and caregivers. Myia bridges this gap. By providing actionable and immediate insights on patient condition, Myia improves quality of life for patients and predicts and prevents costly medical events for care providers.

Trusted Insight

Series A in 2015
Trusted Insight is an LP network that provides institutional investors with curated news, jobs, rankings, online and offline events, and a forum. With over 140,000 members on the platform controlling over $18 Trillion in assets, Trusted Insight is the fastest growing and most trusted alternative platform. 30,000 institutional investors engage with Trusted Insight each week. They are actively investing in alternative assets, primarily private equity, hedge funds, real estate and private companies. Founded by Alex Bangash, Trusted Insight started in 2010 and is venture-funded and revenue-producing. Its investors were the first investors or founders of Facebook, LinkedIn, Mint, Match.com, and Blackstone, among others. The company has offices in NYC and San Francisco.

Valued

Private Placement in 2019
Valued designs and develops an application to allow HR leaders with the insights needed to protect their employees. Its application offers intuitive org charts, conservation team check-ins, and conversational anonymous surveys. The company is based in San Francisco, California.

Southie Autonomy

Seed Round in 2022
Southie Autonomy develops a robot software that enables any industrial robot to be re-purposed and re-deployed by any person even without robotics expertise or even computer skills. It aims to help businesses recoup ROI faster by lowering time, cost, and skill barriers, in applications like kitting, palletizing, and simple assembly. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

GetAccept

Seed Round in 2017
Founded and developed by salespeople, GetAccept helps sales reps accelerate the sales process from the first conversation to a sealed contract. It provides the best all-in-one sales platform where video, live chat, sales content, proposal design, document tracking, and e-signatures come together to simplify the life of every sales team. With GetAccept, sales reps forge relationships and build trust with the buyer in a remote and digital-first world.

Nodle

Seed Round in 2018
Nodle is building a global low cost, low energy connectivity service for the IoT. Using bluetooth, Nodle is a perfect solution for devices such as tracking devices, air sensors, smartwatches, fitness trackers and home appliances. This is opening up new opportunities for hardware manufacturers and lowering the barriers to entry to build innovative IoT solutions and hardware. This “crowd-sourced” connectivity network provides also an alternative source of revenues for device makers, network operators and app developers while preserving users privacy.

INDUS.AI

Private Placement in 2019
indus.ai, Inc., a technology company, provides a construction Intelligence-as-a-Service software to organize chaos involving people, equipment, and materials in construction sites. It offers Indus.ai, an AI-enabled computer vision software platform that allows users to gain insights about their job sites; install cameras to provide images/videos from their site and the platform turns those into analytics and insights. The company’s solutions are used for developers, general contractors, owners, safety and compliance, and construction intelligence. indus.ai, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in Thornhill, Canada.

BootstrapWorks

Seed Round in 2016
BootstrapWorks provides a mobile application that helps to match entrepreneurs with top tier advisors using data and machine learning to empower them to execute at their best. It enables top advisors to easily connect and quickly engage with relevant startups, while removing the friction of contracts, cash versus equity payment models, etc. The company was established in year 2010.

Valued

Private Placement in 2019
Qurious.io is a eal-time voice A.I. platform that enables sales leaders to scale their organizations better and faster, at lower cost. Harnessing the power of artificial intelligence, Qurious learns what works and continuously evolves playbooks so that they are always relevant and effective. The company's machine learning platform offers understanding of real-time voice communication enabling companies to analyze, control, and optimize all voice communication between their employees and the outside world.

Sibly

Seed Round in 2016
Sibly, Inc. develops a behavioral artificial intelligence based health platform that uses real time solutions to address mental and behavioral health. The company applies tools that include reflective listening, motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioral materials, and other empirically-based strategies. It drives speed of intervention and allows real-time quality control. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Mendel

Seed Round in 2018
Mendel.ai is dedicated to supporting and improving clinical oncology research. We build software to solve problems at each stage of the clinical trial process, from feasibility to post-trial pharmacovigilance.

Pryon

Private Placement in 2018
Pryon Inc. is an artificial intelligence (AI) company that creates an augmented intelligence platform for the enterprise that combines the strengths of humans and machines. Its augmented intelligence platform orchestrates information across channels, endpoints, and sources with context awareness, disambiguation, inference, natural language, and other AI techniques; and grants access to knowledge, processes, and decisions without the cumbersome layers that slow work down. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Cargo Chief

Private Placement in 2019
Cargo Chief arithmetically matches trucking supply and demand with unparalleled integrations. Leveraging award-winning patented technology we help buyers of freight services instantly find available well vetted capacity. Our well received technology provides data, automation and network advantages for our clients and us. Our experienced team is backed by dozens of angels and a seed VC.

Mendel

Series A in 2021
Mendel.ai is dedicated to supporting and improving clinical oncology research. We build software to solve problems at each stage of the clinical trial process, from feasibility to post-trial pharmacovigilance.

Kountable

Series A in 2018
Kountable, Inc. develops and operates a platform which connects entrepreneurs needing business funding and financing for trade deals to the investors. The company, through its platform, analyses social network footprints of the entrepreneur to approve the funding. It also collaborates with the entrepreneur in paying and recovering the money. Kountable, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

IUNU

Seed Round in 2019
iUNU is an industrial computer vision company that connects plants, facilities, and people through a single interface. Luna turns commercial greenhouses into precise, predictable, demand-based manufacturers. Luna is an AI born in the heart of Seattle; trained in Silicon Valley and the greenhouses of Skagit Valley; accessible from everywhere. Founded in 2013, iUNU is an industrial computer vision company headquartered in Seattle, with offices in San Francisco and San Diego.

Prezi

Series A in 2009
Prezi is an interactive cloud-based presentation platform that helps users connect with their audience. Prezi's latest offering, Prezi Next, is a full-lifecycle presentation platform so everyone can easily create visually stunning presentations, deliver them in a more natural and conversational way, and analyze their effectiveness. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

unitQ

Seed Round in 2017
unitQ develops real-time solutions for staying on top of product quality across platforms, languages, and regions. The company is headquartered in the United States.

Pryon

Series A in 2019
Pryon Inc. is an artificial intelligence (AI) company that creates an augmented intelligence platform for the enterprise that combines the strengths of humans and machines. Its augmented intelligence platform orchestrates information across channels, endpoints, and sources with context awareness, disambiguation, inference, natural language, and other AI techniques; and grants access to knowledge, processes, and decisions without the cumbersome layers that slow work down. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Pingpad

Seed Round in 2017
Pingpad for Slack is the best of Trello, Google Docs and Wikis in one app. Get your Slack organized. Headquartered in Palo Alto, founded by startup veterans and backed by world class investors.

NavTrac

Seed Round in 2018
Next Gen Yard Management System (YMS) NavTrac leverages Computer Vision to reimagine yard operations through automation and proactive optimization. The platform features an Automated Gate System (AGS) to increase data quality, detect damage, improve inventory management and eliminate guard costs. NavTrac's mission is to make yard operations safer, greener and vastly more productive. NavTrac users include Fortune 500s and the company is funded by TenOneTen, Blumberg Captial, Silicon Valley Data Capital, Y Combinator and others.

Nodle

Private Placement in 2018
Nodle is building a global low cost, low energy connectivity service for the IoT. Using bluetooth, Nodle is a perfect solution for devices such as tracking devices, air sensors, smartwatches, fitness trackers and home appliances. This is opening up new opportunities for hardware manufacturers and lowering the barriers to entry to build innovative IoT solutions and hardware. This “crowd-sourced” connectivity network provides also an alternative source of revenues for device makers, network operators and app developers while preserving users privacy.

Corpay One

Series A in 2019
Roger.ai is a bill pay and accounts payable automation for SMBs and accountants. Roger.ai gives users the time back by getting all the boring daily financial work done via automated workflows for things like bill pay, approvals, compliance, and expenses. Users can pay any bill or invoice in a second or less, cut time spent on managing accounts payable, paying bills, and worrying about it. It has a powerful approval flow and a full AP automation with accounting system integrations. Roger.ai was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in Copenhagen.

Mendel

Seed Round in 2017
Mendel.ai is dedicated to supporting and improving clinical oncology research. We build software to solve problems at each stage of the clinical trial process, from feasibility to post-trial pharmacovigilance.

Hayden AI

Seed Round in 2020
California-based Hayden AI Technologies, Inc. has developed an artificial intelligence-powered data collection platform for smart and safe cities to make their traffic flow faster and far more efficiently. The company is partnering with the world’s most innovative cities to deploy its vision-based mobile solution in a city’s fleet of vehicles to collect real-time data for the enforcement of traffic laws and other data services.

Zerply

Seed Round in 2014
Zerply, Inc. operates an invite-only community for creative talent in films, games, and VR/AR. The company enables artists to manage their professional lives with tools to host and share their work across a community of peers, fans, and companies looking for talent. It serves creatives and studios. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California with a location in Tallinn, Estonia.

Cargo Chief

Private Placement in 2017
Cargo Chief arithmetically matches trucking supply and demand with unparalleled integrations. Leveraging award-winning patented technology we help buyers of freight services instantly find available well vetted capacity. Our well received technology provides data, automation and network advantages for our clients and us. Our experienced team is backed by dozens of angels and a seed VC.

INDUS.AI

Series A in 2019
indus.ai, Inc., a technology company, provides a construction Intelligence-as-a-Service software to organize chaos involving people, equipment, and materials in construction sites. It offers Indus.ai, an AI-enabled computer vision software platform that allows users to gain insights about their job sites; install cameras to provide images/videos from their site and the platform turns those into analytics and insights. The company’s solutions are used for developers, general contractors, owners, safety and compliance, and construction intelligence. indus.ai, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in Thornhill, Canada.

Kountable

Series A in 2021
Kountable, Inc. develops and operates a platform which connects entrepreneurs needing business funding and financing for trade deals to the investors. The company, through its platform, analyses social network footprints of the entrepreneur to approve the funding. It also collaborates with the entrepreneur in paying and recovering the money. Kountable, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Pryon

Series B in 2023
Pryon Inc. is an artificial intelligence (AI) company that creates an augmented intelligence platform for the enterprise that combines the strengths of humans and machines. Its augmented intelligence platform orchestrates information across channels, endpoints, and sources with context awareness, disambiguation, inference, natural language, and other AI techniques; and grants access to knowledge, processes, and decisions without the cumbersome layers that slow work down. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Corpay One

Seed Round in 2016
Roger.ai is a bill pay and accounts payable automation for SMBs and accountants. Roger.ai gives users the time back by getting all the boring daily financial work done via automated workflows for things like bill pay, approvals, compliance, and expenses. Users can pay any bill or invoice in a second or less, cut time spent on managing accounts payable, paying bills, and worrying about it. It has a powerful approval flow and a full AP automation with accounting system integrations. Roger.ai was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in Copenhagen.