Boldstart Ventures Fund VI

Boldstart Ventures

Status

ACTIVE

Global HQ

New York, United States

Countries of investment

United States
Israel
United Kingdom
Canada
France
Belgium
Iceland
Sweden

Investment stages

Pre-Seed
Seed

Industries

Enterprise software
Developer tools
Cybersecurity
Cloud infrastructure
Data infrastructure
Artificial intelligence
Crypto infrastructure
SaaS
Gaming

About
Boldstart Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm focused on enterprise infrastructure. Their focus spans developer tools, cybersecurity, cloud and data infrastructure, AI and SaaS across the United States, Israel, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Belgium, Iceland and Sweden. The firm supports founders from pre-seed through seed stages.

Min check size: $500K
Max check size: $5M
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Investment Thesis

Boldstart Ventures is a pre-seed and seed stage inception fund for technical founders building enterprise infrastructure and developer-first software, often investing before a product or company exists. The firm differentiates itself as the first check into companies such as Snyk, BigID, Clay, Kustomer and Protect AI.

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Manager's Experience

Founded in 2010 by Ed Sim, previously a venture investor at Dawntreader Ventures and JP Morgan, alongside General Partner Eliot Durbin. Offices in New York and Miami. Has partnered with 130+ founding teams as an inception-stage investor. Portfolio includes Snyk, BigID, Clay, CrewAI, Kustomer (sold to Meta), Protect AI (sold to Palo Alto Networks) and Superhuman (sold to Grammarly).