Partner from Inception.
For Bold Technical Founders Building the Future.
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, Stealth (robotics model), Stealth (bio model) and so many moreĀ from Inception.
The Latest
boldstart technical founder summit ā AI giveth and AI taketh away + other š learnings Ā»
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boldstart 2024Ā recap Ā»
Welcome Ron Miller, our new Operating Partner and Head of Editorial, FastForward Launch Day Ā»
Turpentine VC: E66: Why Inception Investing Beats Traditional Seed with Ed Sim of Boldstart Ventures Ā»
Tessl worth a reported $750 million after latest $100 million funding to help it build āAI nativeā software development platform (Fortune) Ā»
Snyk Codeās $100 Million Milestone: AI-Driven Growth (Forbes) Ā»
Web3 security firm Hypernative raises $16 million in Series A funding (The Block) Ā»
CXOTalk: Ed Sim + Investing in Early Stage Enterprise AI Ā»
Driving Alpha Podcast: Inception investing in technical enterprise founders with Ed Sim Ā»
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»
The Midas Seed List 2024: Congrats Ed on 3rd Annual Top 10 ranking of Top 25 Seed Investors worldwide 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.