Partner from Inception.

For Bold Founders Reinventing the Enterprise Stack.

Before you build your team, before you write your first line of code, before you even take your first check—that’s 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 enterprise network to help turn bold ideas into category-creating iconic companies.

We’ve been in the trenches with Snyk, Blockdaemon, Kustomer, BigID, Superhuman (and so many more) from Inception.


The Latest

Forbes | 10.02.2024

Snyk Code’s $100 Million Milestone: AI-Driven Growth (Forbes) Â»

The Block | 09.03.2024

Web3 security firm Hypernative raises $16 million in Series A funding (The Block) Â»

CXO Series, First Check | 08.22.2024

CXOTalk: Ed Sim + Investing in Early Stage Enterprise AI Â»

First Check, Fundraising | 08.30.2024

Empowering Dev-First Startups: Ed Sim’s Vision for Boldstart and the Future of Enterprise AI (Venture with Grace) Â»

First Check, Fundraising | 08.21.2024

Driving Alpha Podcast: Inception investing in technical enterprise founders with Ed Sim Â»

06.28.2024

Clay, Inception to Series B at $500M Valuation: Reinventing Prospecting & Outreach for Sales with AI. Â»

Forbes | 06.05.2024

The Midas Seed List 2024: Congrats Ed on 3rd Annual Top 10 ranking of Top 25 Seed Investors worldwide Â»

Business Insider | 05.07.2024

Congrats Ed for #1 on “The Seed 100: The best early-stage investors of 2024” for 2nd year Â»

03.11.2024

The VentureFizz Podcast: Ellen Chisa – Partner, boldstart ventures Â»

GTM | 03.27.2024

Back to Basics —Enterprise Founders’ Day Â»

Fundraising | 12.20.2023

The Startup Landscape in 2023 and Beyond with Shomik Ghosh (Total Rekall) Â»

First Check, Fundraising | 10.27.2023

20VC: The Three Types of Seed Rounds (aka “Inception Rounds”), Why Seed Has Never Been More Competitive… Â»


There’s not just one playbook.

Getting from idea to Series A is a tangled path. There’s no prescription. You need a true believer in what you are doing, to help you figure out what’s next and be with you when it’s hard to see the path ahead. That’s what boldstart does, and we’ve done it repeatedly for more than 10 years now.