# Ed Sim - boldstart ventures The boldstart archive # Ed Sim 54 published entries [All news](/news/archive/) · [All resources](/resources/) · [Companies](/companies/) news · 2026-03-17 ## [Surf AI 🏄: The New Agentic Operating Model for Security | Welcome to boldstart](/news/surf-ai-the-agentic-ops-platform-for-security-teams-welcome-to-boldstart/) news · 2025-12-30 ## [boldstart 2025 recap](/news/boldstart-2025-recap/) news · 2025-11-12 ## [Humanix – Human Threat Detection & Response for Social Engineering Attacks. Welcome to boldstart.](/news/humanix-human-threat-detection-response-for-social-engineering-attacks-welcome-to-boldstart/) news · 2025-10-21 ## [Keycard: The Identity and Access Platform for AI Agents, Welcome to boldstart!](/news/keycard-solving-the-ai-agent-identity-and-access-problem-welcome-to-boldstart/) news · 2025-07-08 ## [WSJ – Boldstart Ventures Raises $250 Million AI Fund, Looking to Move Fast](/news/wsj-boldstart-ventures-raises-250-million-ai-fund-looking-to-move-fast/) news · 2025-07-08 ## [Announcing boldstart Fund VII: Inception Reloaded — $250M to Build the Autonomous Enterprise](/news/announcing-boldstart-fund-vii-inception-reloaded-250m-to-build-the-autonomous-enterprise/) news · 2025-05-28 ## [👏🏼 Ed Sim selected to Forbes Midas Seed List for 4th Year!](/news/%f0%9f%91%8f%f0%9f%8f%bc-ed-sim-selected-to-forbes-midas-seed-list-for-4th-year/) news · 2025-04-28 ## [From Inception to AI security leader – ProtectAI’s journey to $700M+ exit to Palo Alto Networks](/news/from-inception-to-ai-security-leader-protectais-journey-to-exit-to-palo-alto-networks/) Ideas · 2025-02-23 ## [boldstart technical founder summit — AI giveth and AI taketh away + other 🔑 learnings](/resources/boldstart-technical-founder-summit-ai-giveth-and-ai-taketh-away-other-%f0%9f%94%91-learnings/) news · 2025-01-29 ## [Baz – Your AI Code Review Agent – Welcome to boldstart!](/news/baz-your-ai-code-review-agent-welcome-to-boldstart/) news · 2025-01-22 ## [Grepr – Next Generation Reliability Platform for an AI-Powered World – Welcome to boldstart!](/news/grepr-welcome-to-boldstart/) news · 2024-12-03 ## [Welcome Ron Miller, our new Operating Partner and Head of Editorial, FastForward Launch Day](/news/welcome-ron-miller-our-new-operating-partner-and-head-of-editorial-fastforward-launch-day/) news · 2024-11-14 ## [Tessl — AI Native Software Development — Welcome to boldstart!](/news/tessl-ai-native-software-development-welcome-to-boldstart/) news · 2024-06-20 ## [Ed shares 28 years of lessons as an enterprise inception investor on The Peel Podcast](/news/ed-shares-28-years-of-lessons-as-an-enterprise-inception-investor-on-the-peel-podcast/) news · 2024-06-05 ## [Forbes Cover Story on Ed for Midas Seed List 2024](/news/ed-on-forbes-profile-daily-cover-for-midas-seed-list-2024/) Ideas · 2023-10-27 ## [Inception Investing: the new race to be first in Venture… and Pre-Seed isn’t first any more](/resources/inception-investing-first/) news · 2023-05-23 ## [Ed Sim got into VC by answering a newspaper ad. Today he’s the industry’s No. 1 seed investor (Insider).](/news/ed-sim-got-into-venture-capital-by-answering-a-newspaper-ad-today-hes-the-industrys-no-1-seed-investor-insider/) news · 2022-12-15 ## [Protect AI — MLSecOps, shift left security for AI/ML, welcome to boldstart](/news/protect-ai-mlsecops-shift-left-security-for-ai-ml-welcome-to-boldstart/) news · 2022-04-14 ## [The Midas Seed List 2022 – Ed repping boldstart at #10 in its first annual ranking of top 25 seed investors worldwide](/news/the-midas-seed-list-2022/) news · 2022-04-13 ## [Congrats Ed! The Midas Brink List: Meet Venture Capital’s Rising Stars for 2022](/news/ed-sim-recognized-on-the-midas-brink-list-meet-venture-capitals-rising-stars-for-2022/) news · 2022-03-02 ## [Contracts as APIs — closing enterprise deals at the speed of SaaS, Welcome Common Paper to boldstart](/news/commonpaper/) Ideas · 2022-02-13 ## [Console.dev podcast: Devtools investing, with Ed Sim – S02E05](/resources/console-dev-podcast-devtools-investing-with-ed-sim-s02e05/) news · 2021-12-11 ## [💪🏼 boldstart is seed firm w/ highest % of 🦄](/news/%f0%9f%92%aa%f0%9f%8f%bc-boldstart-is-seed-firm-w-highest-of-%f0%9f%a6%84/) Ideas · 2021-09-22 ## [What Do VCs Look for in PLG/Dev First Founders with Ed Sim? BUILD podcast](/resources/ed-sim-boldstart-what-do-vcs-look-for-in-plg-founders-build-podcast/) Ideas · 2021-05-14 ## [Have met so many great enterprise founders lately but what really gets me excited…](/resources/have-met-so-many-great-enterprise-founders-lately-but-what-really-gets-me-excited-besides-new-category-creation-is-when-teams-can-hit-the-ground-running-from-day-1/) Ideas · 2021-03-05 ## [What’s Hot in AI/Infra/VC](/resources/whats-hot-in-enterprise-it-vc/) news · 2021-03-03 ## [The Fastest and Most Joyful Note-Taking Experience for Go-To-Market Teams: Welcome Dooly.ai to the boldstart Family!](/news/the-fastest-and-most-joyful-note-taking-experience-for-go-to-market-teams-welcome-dooly-ai-to-the-boldstart-family/) news · 2021-02-17 ## [Boldstart V and Opportunity II, $230mm to back enterprise founders from day one to scale](/news/boldstart-v-and-opportunity-ii-230mm-to-back-enterprise-founders-from-day-one-to-scale/) news · 2020-06-24 ## [Privacy Platform for Collaborative Data Science: Excited to Announce boldstart’s Investment in Cape Privacy](/news/privacy-platform-for-collaborative-data-science-excited-to-announce-boldstarts-investment-in-cape-privacy/) news · 2020-05-07 ## [Secure Data & Model Collaboration Within and Across Enterprises: Excited to Announce Boldstart’s Investment in Harbr](/news/secure-data-model-collaboration-within-and-across-enterprises-excited-to-announce-boldstarts-investment-in-harbr/) news · 2020-04-21 ## [Self service and dynamic cloud environments: Excited to announce boldstart’s investment in env0](/news/self-service-and-dynamic-cloud-environments-excited-to-announce-boldstarts-investment-in-env0/) news · 2020-03-17 ## [Run Kubernetes your way, anywhere: Excited to Announce Boldstart’s Investment in Spectro Cloud](/news/run-kubernetes-your-way-anywhere-excited-to-announce-boldstarts-investment-in-spectro-cloud/) news · 2019-12-29 ## [boldstart 2019 recap and what’s 🔥 in enterprise 2020](/news/boldstart-2019-recap-and-whats-%f0%9f%94%a5-in-enterprise-2020/) news · 2019-11-12 ## [Announcing Boldstart IV and Opportunity I, $157mm to back enterprise founders from day one to scale](/news/announcing-boldstart-iv-and-opportunity-i-157mm-to-back-enterprise-founders-from-day-one-to-scale/) Ideas · 2019-04-10 ## [How do 6 Global Heads of Automation from the Fortune 500 think about the future?](/resources/how-do-6-global-heads-of-automation-from-the-fortune-500-think-about-the-future/) news · 2019-02-14 ## [Pinpoint — a system of intelligence for software engineering](/news/pinpoint-a-system-of-intelligence-for-software-engineering/) news · 2018-12-31 ## [boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019](/news/boldstart-2018-recap-and-whats-hot-in-enterprise-2019/) Ideas · 2018-08-27 ## [SaaStr Episode 190: Ed Sim discusses the 0 to 1 enterprise stage and first customers](/resources/on-saastr-episode-190-discussing-the-0-to-1-enterprise-stage-and-first-customers/) news · 2018-03-07 ## [Snyk, from first check to leader in dev-friendly open source security](/news/snyk-from-first-check-to-leader-in-dev-friendly-open-source-security/) news · 2017-12-29 ## [boldstart in 2017, enterprise tech in 2018](/news/boldstart-in-2017-enterprise-tech-in-2018/) news · 2017-10-09 ## [boldstart fall 2017 update](/news/boldstart-fall-2017-update/) Ideas · 2017-04-04 ## [Why I love and fear AWS](/resources/why-i-love-and-fear-aws/) Ideas · 2017-03-12 ## [Building AI on CXOTalk; cutting through AI hype, “applied AI” to enterprise](/resources/building-ai-on-cxotalk-cutting-through-ai-hype-applied-ai-to-enterprise/) Ideas · 2017-03-09 ## [Apps Sell Infrastructure](/resources/apps-sell-infrastructure/) Ideas · 2017-02-15 ## [Thoughts from RSA and the Climate for Security Startups](/resources/thoughts-from-rsa-and-the-climate-for-security-startups/) Ideas · 2017-01-30 ## [Developer Love Versus Revenue](/resources/developer-love-versus-revenue/) Ideas · 2017-01-17 ## [Thoughts on SaaS in 2017](/resources/thoughts-on-saas-in-2017/) news · 2016-12-29 ## [boldstart in 2016, enterprise tech in 2017](/news/boldstart-in-2016-enterprise-tech-in-2017/) news · 2016-11-17 ## [our journey to an oversubscribed fund iii for first check enterprise](/news/our-journey-to-an-oversubscribed-fund-iii-for-first-check-enterprise/) Ideas · 2016-02-07 ## [WEVR, still going big after 15 years — why we invested](/resources/wevr-still-going-big-after-15-years-why-we-invested/) news · 2016-01-01 ## [boldstart ventures, the enterprise in 2016](/news/boldstart-ventures-the-enterprise-in-2016/) Ideas · 2015-09-15 ## [First enterprise customers – revenue or user engagement?](/resources/first-enterprise-customers-revenue-or-user-engagement/) news · 2015-06-19 ## [A better way to deploy SaaS on-premise](/news/a-better-way-to-deploy-saas-on-premise/) Ideas · 2015-03-24 ## [One VC’s Take on NYC and Enterprise Tech](/resources/one-vcs-take-on-nyc-and-enterprise-tech/) --- Source page: /post_author/ed-sim/