Boldstart Ventures
Pre-seed 'inception' investor in enterprise/dev-tools; first checks into Snyk, BigID and Kustomer.
VC
Pre-seed
📍 New York, NY
Founded 2010
AUM
Not Disclosed
Strategic / Balance-Sheet
PRIVATE
Boldstart Ventures, founded in 2010 by Ed Sim and based in New York, is a pre-seed 'inception' investor focused on enterprise, developer tools, security and infrastructure software. It wrote first checks into Snyk, BigID, Kustomer (sold to Meta) and Blockdaemon, and raised its boldstart VI + Opportunities III funds totaling $367 million in 2024.
Notable Partners
Ed SimEliot DurbinShomik Ghosh
Investment Focus
Sectors
Enterprise · Infrastructure · AI · Crypto
VCPre-seed
Investor data reflects publicly disclosed AUM, fund sizes, and portfolio holdings as of recent date. Refreshed periodically.