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Being singularly focused on enterprise gives us the deep knowledge, expertise, and connections needed to build great companies. Our founders have been on your same journey, experienced similar ups and downs, and can help you get there faster. We can introduce you to some of our Fortune 500 network of customers and other customers at fast-moving startups.
We always like to start collaborating wtih you well before you incorporate, help you battle test your ideas, pre-sell first hires, and lead your round at Inception. We are always your first check, but it’s also likely that won’t be our only investment in you. Our initial check ranges from $500k to $5m, and we reserve significant capital for follow-on investments in our existing portfolio. Many times, fellow portfolio founders will want to join your round as well.
We look for the 5 Ps:
- Pain: The best companies are born out of the pain founders have experienced themselves. The bigger the idea the better.
- Product: What’s your unique technical insight you are bringing to the table? Are you tackling the market from the bottom up or top-down?
- Passion: How passionate are you? Are you ready to disrupt the establishment? Are you willing to run through walls for this and drive through people saying no?
- Potential: Does this product have potential to be a category-killer in enterprise?
- Patience: Are you comfortable knowing the hardest problems take longer to solve, and that finding the right partners, right team, right product-market fit doesn’t happen overnight?
Our only goal is to help you accelerate the path to product-market fit. You need help hiring and recruiting engineers, we can help you do that. We can bring you the right advisors at the right time so that you are surrounded by great people from some of the top enterprise SaaS and developer-led companies at the outset. And then over time, we can introduce you to some of our Fortune 500 network of customers and other customers at fast-moving startups. This all combines to a faster time to Series A from a great Tier 1 firm, which we will also help you with. We bring in all that experience, expertise, the whole family of all the people that we know to help you get there faster. And we’ll have a lot of fun doing it together.
Courage & Conviction: You need a partner from Inception, a true believer in what you are building. Once we are in, we are in. We never lose faith that you are going to make it, and we put the full force of our team, experience, network, and community behind you.
A Long View: Our support often begins well before a check is written to a team. We play long ball and seek to build relationships over the long-term resulting in many second-time founders that we've had the privilege to back.
Full Throttle Engagement: We love what we do and match our founders’ intensity, passion, and commitment. We energetically put our time, effort, and all of our resources from decades investing in enterprise behind you. We are all in this together.
The Power of the boldstart Community: We are designed around community, with right time introductions to people and companies that can make a huge difference in your trajectory.
We are founders helping founders, the boldstart family. We actively engage our founders on a human level, through co-hosted themed dinners and our founders only Slack community. Simply put, we love hanging out with and helping each other. And our founders love helping one another - read more from our Enterprise Founder's Day.
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