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The boldstart archive
News archive
98 published entries
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GeneralistAI — When Robots Start to Improvise — Welcome to boldstart
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Surf AI 🏄: The New Agentic Operating Model for Security | Welcome to boldstart
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ToposBio – unlocking “Undruggable” Targets – welcome to boldstart
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boldstart 2025 recap
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Humanix – Human Threat Detection & Response for Social Engineering Attacks. Welcome to boldstart.
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Keycard: The Identity and Access Platform for AI Agents, Welcome to boldstart!
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Waldo — the leading agentic platform for marketing agencies and brand teams. Welcome to boldstart!
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Kustomer raises $30M Series B -Meta Acquired His Company for $1 Billion, and Then Changed Its Mind. Now, He’s Charting a New Path
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NYT – Clay, a Sales Tool for the A.I. Era, Raises $100 Million at $3.1 billion valuation
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WSJ – Boldstart Ventures Raises $250 Million AI Fund, Looking to Move Fast
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Announcing boldstart Fund VII: Inception Reloaded — $250M to Build the Autonomous Enterprise
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👏🏼 Ed Sim selected to Forbes Midas Seed List for 4th Year!
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From Inception to AI security leader – ProtectAI’s journey to $700M+ exit to Palo Alto Networks
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Baz – Your AI Code Review Agent – Welcome to boldstart!
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Clay boosts valuation to $1.3 billion – “a secret weapon for Anthropic and OpenAI”
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Grepr – Next Generation Reliability Platform for an AI-Powered World – Welcome to boldstart!
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boldstart 2024 recap
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Welcome Ron Miller, our new Operating Partner and Head of Editorial, FastForward Launch Day
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Tessl — AI Native Software Development — Welcome to boldstart!
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Tessl worth a reported $750 million after latest $100 million funding to help it build ‘AI native’ software development platform (Fortune)
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Announcing our investment in CrewAI; powering the future of AI in the enterprise with multi-agent automation — Welcome to boldstart!
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Snyk Code’s $100 Million Milestone: AI-Driven Growth (Forbes)
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Web3 security firm Hypernative raises $16 million in Series A funding (The Block)
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Clay, Inception to Series B at $500M Valuation: Reinventing Prospecting & Outreach for Sales with AI.
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Ed shares 28 years of lessons as an enterprise inception investor on The Peel Podcast
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Forbes Cover Story on Ed for Midas Seed List 2024
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The Midas Seed List 2024: Congrats Ed on 3rd Annual Top 10 ranking of Top 25 Seed Investors worldwide
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Congrats Ed for #1 on “The Seed 100: The best early-stage investors of 2024” for 2nd year
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boldstart 2023 recap
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Protect AI raises $35M to build a suite of AI-defending tools
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Ed Sim got into VC by answering a newspaper ad. Today he’s the industry’s No. 1 seed investor (Insider).
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The Midas Seed List 2023: Ed + boldstart #9 in annual ranking of top 25 seed investors worldwide
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Congrats Ed! Midas Seed List 2023: The Earliest Venture Capital Backers In Today’s Tech Icons (Forbes)
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Dope Security nabs $16M led by GV to build out secure web gateways designed to work on endpoints, not in the cloud
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Crypto security startup Hypernative raises $9M to help prevent web3 cyber attacks (TechCrunch)
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AtomicJar raises $25M Series A, opens public beta of Testcontainers Cloud (TechCrunch)
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boldstart 2022 recap: +11 new teams, >$750M raised across portfolio…
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Cybersecurity startup Protect AI launches with $13.5 million in funding
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Protect AI — MLSecOps, shift left security for AI/ML, welcome to boldstart
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Snyk Closes $196.5 Million Series G Funding at $7.4 Billion Valuation
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Jeli.io keeps rolling with free Slack incident response bot and new investment – Techcrunch
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Steadybit wants developers involved in chaos engineering before production – Techcrunch
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Tres raises $7.6M to help web3 teams manage their financials and crypto data (TechCrunch)
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Dope Security emerges from stealth to shake up the SWG market (TechCrunch)
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Security-as-code startup Jit comes out of stealth with $38.5M in seed funding
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Cybersecurity startup Jit raises $38.5 million in Seed funding (CTech)
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Reco comes out of stealth to secure collaboration – Announcing $4.2M Seed and $25M Series A
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boldstart vi + opportunities iii, $367M to back dev first, crypto infra & SaaS founders from Day One 🌴
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The Midas Seed List 2022 – Ed repping boldstart at #10 in its first annual ranking of top 25 seed investors worldwide
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Congrats Ed! The Midas Brink List: Meet Venture Capital’s Rising Stars for 2022
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Liveblocks is an API that lets you add real-time collaboration to your product
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Spectro Cloud Locks In $40M Series B – Investors Still See Potential In Kubernetes
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Liveblocks grabs $5 million for its real-time collaboration API
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Building Liquid Staking for Institutional DeFi & Strategic Investment from Blockdaemon & boldstart ventures
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Contracts as APIs — closing enterprise deals at the speed of SaaS, Welcome Common Paper to boldstart
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Crypto Infrastructure Firm Blockdaemon Raises $207M at $3.25B Valuation
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Slim.AI lands $31M funding round to automate security best practices in container app development
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boldstart 2021 recap & what’s 🔥 in enterprise 2022
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💪🏼 boldstart is seed firm w/ highest % of 🦄
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Blockdaemon raises $155M at $1.255B valuation as it becomes the world’s largest blockchain node infrastructure company
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Snyk raises $530M at $8.5B valuation reflecting market shift to developer security
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Jit emerges out of stealth to bring minimal viable security to developers
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Superhuman Raises $75 Million For Its Waitlist-Only Email Productivity App led by IVP
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Replicated raises $50M for its on-premises software delivery tools
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Streamlining Service management – Welcoming UtilizeCore to the boldstart Family.
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The Fastest and Most Joyful Note-Taking Experience for Go-To-Market Teams: Welcome Dooly.ai to the boldstart Family!
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Boldstart V and Opportunity II, $230mm to back enterprise founders from day one to scale
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Welcome Ellen Chisa! Announcing Boldstart’s First Founder in Residence
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Delivering Containerized Applications Faster: Excited to Announce boldstart’s Investment in Slim.ai
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boldstart 2020 recap and what’s 🔥 in enterprise 2021
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Learning From Incidents — Excited to Announce Boldstart’s Investment in Jeli
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Replicated — Whiteboard to Series B
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The VCs who founders love the most
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What do investors bidding up tech shares know that the rest of us don’t?
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Venture Capital Viewpoints
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Privacy Platform for Collaborative Data Science: Excited to Announce boldstart’s Investment in Cape Privacy
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Building stronger, more aligned partnerships with Slack Connect
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Ed Sim of boldstart on Breaking Into Your First Enterprise IT Account
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Enterprise investors remain flexible as they navigate COVID-19
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12 VCs share their thoughts on enterprise startup trends and opportunities
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Introducing “Boldstart CXO Connect” (and Six Takeaways From Our First Event!)
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Guardian Life, Priceline Step Up Pace of Digital Initiatives
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Secure Data & Model Collaboration Within and Across Enterprises: Excited to Announce Boldstart’s Investment in Harbr
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Self service and dynamic cloud environments: Excited to announce boldstart’s investment in env0
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Run Kubernetes your way, anywhere: Excited to Announce Boldstart’s Investment in Spectro Cloud
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Welcome to Boldstart: Natalie Ledbetter (Head of People and Platform) & Shomik Ghosh (Principal)
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boldstart 2019 recap and what’s 🔥 in enterprise 2020
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Announcing Boldstart IV and Opportunity I, $157mm to back enterprise founders from day one to scale
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Pinpoint — a system of intelligence for software engineering
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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019
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Snyk, from first check to leader in dev-friendly open source security
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boldstart in 2017, enterprise tech in 2018
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boldstart fall 2017 update
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boldstart in 2016, enterprise tech in 2017
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our journey to an oversubscribed fund iii for first check enterprise
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boldstart ventures, the enterprise in 2016
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