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
Snyk Code’s $100 Million Milestone: AI-Driven Growth (Forbes) »
Web3 security firm Hypernative raises $16 million in Series A funding (The Block) »
CXOTalk: Ed Sim + Investing in Early Stage Enterprise AI »
Empowering Dev-First Startups: Ed Sim’s Vision for Boldstart and the Future of Enterprise AI (Venture with Grace) »
Driving Alpha Podcast: Inception investing in technical enterprise founders with Ed Sim »
Ed shares 28 years of lessons as an enterprise inception investor on The Peel Podcast »
Clay, Inception to Series B at $500M Valuation: Reinventing Prospecting & Outreach for Sales with AI. »
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 »
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.