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
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Forbes Cover Story on Ed for Midas Seed List 2024 »
The Midas Seed List 2024: Congrats Ed on 3rd Annual Top 10 ranking of Top 25 Seed Investors worldwide »
Congrats Ed for #1 on “The Seed 100: The best early-stage investors of 2024” for 2nd year »
The VentureFizz Podcast: Ellen Chisa – Partner, boldstart ventures »
Back to Basics —Enterprise Founders’ Day »
20VC: Did Figma Kill M&A Markets in 2024, The Three Biggest Mistakes Made in Growth Investing, The Three Requirements Companies Need to IPO in 2024 with Ed Sim and Jamin Ball »
boldstart 2023 recap »
The Startup Landscape in 2023 and Beyond with Shomik Ghosh (Total Rekall) »
20VC: The Three Types of Seed Rounds (aka “Inception Rounds”), Why Seed Has Never Been More Competitive… »
Inception Investing: the new race to be first in Venture… and Pre-Seed isn’t first any more »
Ed Sim got into VC by answering a newspaper ad. Today he’s the industry’s No. 1 seed investor (Insider). »
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.