Boldstart Ventures

07/09/2025

🔥 up to announce boldstart ventures Fund VII

$250M to back bold technical founders building the autonomous enterprise.

From Inception. Before the world believes.

It always starts with an idea that feels insane… until it isn’t.

Do Bigfoot/Yeti and mythical founders really exist?
We’ve met them. Backed them. Watched them reshape the enterprise.

More on our blog here: https://boldstart.vc/news/announcing-boldstart-fund-vii-inception-reloaded-250m-to-build-the-autonomous-enterprise/

with coverage from

The Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/articles/boldstart-ventures-raises-250-million-ai-fund-looking-to-move-fast-7f20689b

Newcomer: https://www.newcomer.co/p/exclusive-boldstart-ventures-raises

Refresh Miami: https://refreshmiami.com/news/from-napkin-to-250m-boldstart-doubles-down-on-backing-ai-founders-from-day-zero/

Let's go!

Ed Sim, Eliot Durbin, Ellen Chisa

07/16/2024

Catch Boldstart Ventures founder Ed Sim on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange talking about why we've always loved investing in cybersecurity and why there is still so much more opportunity ahead!

Also loving seeing our logo on the big screen!

Snyk, BigID, SecurityScorecard, Protect AI, dope security, Reco.ai, and many more in stealth

06/06/2024

Huge congrats Ed Sim for placing on the Midas Seed list of the world's Top 25 seed stage investors for a third year

As Iain Martin Forbes wrote for his profile:

"As investors jockey to write earlier checks, Sim has long championed an approach he calls “inception investing” working with founders with little more than an idea to shape a business."

“If you have a founder with a crazy vision that might be two or three years ahead of what’s available today, that's when the magic happens,” says Sim, who has backed the likes of
Snyk, Superhuman, BigID, Kustomer...

🙏🏼 to the amazing enterprise founders who have chosen Boldstart Ventures as inception partners

Profile here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2024/06/05/how-inception-investing-landed-ed-sim-a-spot-on-the-midas-seed-list/?sh=1f1516b644a9

05/06/2024

Congrats to Boldstart Ventures' Ed Sim for being the Top Ranked investor on Business Insider's Seed 100 of the world's top early stage investors for the second year in a row!

A huge testament to the amazing founders' we've backed.

Full list here:
https://businessinsider.com/seed-100-best-early-stage-vc-investors-2024-5

06/26/2023

Congrats Ed Sim!

Sim, Boldstart Ventures' founder, has been making seed investments for nearly 30 years. He rose 26 spots this year to the top of Insider's Seed 100.

11/22/2019

Catch Ed Sim with Taylor Riggs on Bloomberg LP Technology discussing our two new funds, boldstart iv and opportunity i, $157mm to support enterprise founders from day one to scale, still early innings for enterprise tech, every Fortune 500 is a software company 🚀 https://youtu.be/5vlw26x6jVI?t=1080

11/21/2018

what's ahead in 2019? Ed Sim featured w/ several investment experts in Fortune Investor Roundtable, bringing our early stage views on power of developers + idea that every Fortune 500 is a software company - also snuck in a nice plug for BigID http://fortune.com/longform/best-stocks-2019-investor-roundtable/

Whether the bull market ends or not, these pros expect great years for stocks like Tesla, Walmart and Disney.

08/30/2017

01/09/2017

https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/15/boldstart-ventures-locks-down-47-million-for-fund-three/

Boldstart Ventures started off with $1 million in 2010 as a kind of experiment. Could a New York-based outfit find enough seed-stage, enterprise-focused,..

01/09/2017