Partner from Inception.
For Bold Technical Founders Building the Autonomous Enterprise
Before you build your team, before you write your first line of code, before you even take your first checkāthatās when boldstart gets to work. We collaborate with technical founders well before company creation, lead pre-product rounds at Inception, and rally our early adopter network to help turn bold ideas into category-creating iconic companies.
From AI-native infrastructure, security, apps, and models, we back the builders reimagining how businesses operate.
Weāve been in the trenches with Snyk, Clay, Protect AI, CrewAI, Tessl, Generalist AI, Stealth (bio model) and so many moreĀ from Inception.
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Kustomer raises $30M Series B -Meta Acquired His Company for $1 Billion, and Then Changed Its Mind. Now, Heās Charting a New Path Ā»
šš¼ Ed Sim selected to Forbes Midas Seed List for 4th Year! Ā»
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Tessl worth a reported $750 million after latest $100 million funding to help it build āAI nativeā software development platform (Fortune) Ā»
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Ed shares 28 years of lessons as an enterprise inception investor on The Peel Podcast Ā»
Forbes Cover Story on Ed for Midas Seed List 2024 Ā»
Congrats Ed for #1 on āThe Seed 100: The best early-stage investors of 2024ā for 2nd year Ā»
20VC: The Three Types of Seed Rounds (aka āInception Roundsā), Why Seed Has Never Been More Competitiveā¦ Ā»
Ed Sim got into VC by answering a newspaper ad. Today heās the industryās No. 1 seed investor (Insider). Ā»
Thereās not just one playbook.
Getting from idea to Series A is a tangled path. Thereās no prescription. You need a true believer in what you are doing, to help you figure out whatās next and be with you when itās hard to see the path ahead. Thatās what boldstart does, and weāve done it repeatedly for more than 10 years now.