Firms

boldstart ventures

Miami, Florida, US

boldstart.vcsignal.nfx.comgoldi.ai

boldstart ventures is a day one partner and true believer for enterprise infrastructure and SaaS founders. boldstart is often the first investor working closely with technical founders at company formation and helps accelerate their path to product market fit. Areas of focus include developer first, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, and SaaS. Notable first check investments include Snyk, BigID, Kustomer, Superhuman, Front, and Security Scorecard. Founding partner Ed Sim has over 24 years of experience as a first round investor in companies like LivePerson (LPSN), Greenplum (Pivotal Software), and GoToMeeting (sold to Citrix).

Founded

2010

Type

Venture capital

Team

Stan Kreydin boldstart ventures, partner	$1M$250K – $2M	Indianapolis, Indiana
Ed Sim boldstart ventures, managing_partner	$1M$250K – $10M	Miami, Florida
Eliot Durbin boldstart ventures, general_partner	$1M$250K – $2M	Miami, Florida · New York, New York · San Francisco, California
Ernest Addison boldstart ventures, senior_associate	$1M$250K – $2M	New York, New York
Ellen Chisa boldstart ventures, partner	$1M$250K – $2M	Somerville, Massachusetts
Max Heald boldstart ventures, investor	—— – —	New York, New York
Charlotte Chapanoff boldstart ventures, Head of Marketing & Global Events	—— – —
Jennifer Moy boldstart ventures, Chief Operating Officer	—— – —
Ricky Bobby boldstart ventures, Investor	—— – —
Snowpack and Stack boldstart ventures, Mythical Founders-in-Residence	—— – —

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Co-investing

Ed Sim

• Uare.ai$10M · 2025-11-11
• Keycard$8M · 2025-10-21
• Hypernative$9M · 2023-01-30
• Protect AI$14M · 2022-12-15
• Snyk$200M · 2022-12-12

Accel

• Surf Ai$— · 2026
• Tessl$— · 2024-11-14
• Smallstep$26M · 2024
• Snyk$300M · 2021-09-09
• Snyk$180M · 2021-03-10

Sequoia

• Clay$100M · 2025-08-05
• SecurityScorecard$27M · 2017-10-12
• SecurityScorecard$20M · 2016-06-23
• SecurityScorecard$12M · 2015-03-24
• Plain Vanilla Games$22M · 2013-12-26

BoxGroup

• Clay$100M · 2025-08-05
• Zuplo$9M · 2023-11-08
• Dooly$17M · 2021-03-03
• Kustomer$10M · 2016-09-27

Angular Ventures

• steadybit$6M · 2024-03-11
• steadybit$— · 2024
• Reco$— · 2022-06-03

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Investments

$—2026-02-12	Reco	boldstart ventures
$—2026-01-13	WeatherPromise	boldstart ventures
$—2026	Surf Ai	Accel, boldstart ventures
$10M2025-11-11	Uare.ai	boldstart ventures, Ed Sim
$8M2025-10-21	Keycard	boldstart ventures, Ed Sim, Zane Lackey
$100M2025-08-05	Clay	Sequoia, eCAPITAL Entrepreneurial Partners AG, Meritech Capital, First Round Capital, boldstart ventures, BoxGroup, First Round
$—2025-07-01	Zango	Nexus Venture Partners, boldstart ventures, Notion Capital
$—2024-11-14	Tessl	Accel, boldstart ventures
$—2024-10-22	CrewAI	boldstart ventures
$—2024-07-23	Noded	boldstart ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners

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