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Ed Sim

Ed Sim

·2 days ago

Hypernative — CryptoSecOps, stopping zero day web3 cyber attacks, welcome to boldstart

As a day one partner for technical founders, we ❤️ to invest in founders building 🏗 the future of enterprise infrastructure including decentralized. Some of our day one investments in crypto infrastructure include companies like Blockdaemon, Fireblocks, Amberdata, and Tres.finance. As the crypto market has grown exponentially, one of the…

Cybersecurity

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Hypernative — CryptoSecOps, stopping zero day web3 cyber attacks, welcome to boldstart
Hypernative — CryptoSecOps, stopping zero day web3 cyber attacks, welcome to boldstart
Cybersecurity

4 min read


Ernest

Ernest

·5 days ago

Web 3.0 Wallet of Choice — Welcome Ethos to the Boldstart Family!

Since the beginning of Boldstart Ventures, we’ve prided ourselves in being the best day one partners for technical founders; helping to turn bold ideas into iconic companies. As it relates to Nadia Eldeib and Jared Cosulich the founders of Ethos Wallet, the story is no different. At this point we’ve…

Venture Capital

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Web 3.0 Wallet of Choice — Welcome Ethos to the Boldstart Family!
Web 3.0 Wallet of Choice — Welcome Ethos to the Boldstart Family!
Venture Capital

3 min read


Ed Sim

Ed Sim

·Dec 26, 2022

boldstart 2022 recap

2022 was a reminder for all of us that everything is not just 📈, and we need to be mindful of building long term businesses solving real problems efficiently. While the market correction was painful to experience, we have to remember it’s still early innings for the cloud, developer tooling…

Venture Capital

4 min read

boldstart 2022 recap
boldstart 2022 recap
Venture Capital

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Ed Sim

Ed Sim

·Dec 22, 2022

Demystifying PLG at bold.camp, our developer first 0–1 boot camp

At boldstart, we ❤️ to collaborate with technical founders well before writing their first line of code or making their first hires, lead pre-product rounds at company formation, and 🏎 help accelerate their path to product market fit. We believe in the power of a focused community of founders creating…

Developer Tools

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Demystifying PLG at bold.camp, our developer first 0–1 boot camp
Demystifying PLG at bold.camp, our developer first 0–1 boot camp
Developer Tools

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Ed Sim

Ed Sim

·Dec 15, 2022

Protect AI — MLSecOps, shift left security for AI/ML, welcome to boldstart

For the last decade, boldstart has been a day one partner with technical founders creating new cybersecurity categories. This includes now established companies like Security Scorecard (security ratings), BigID (data privacy/security), and Snyk (developer first security) along with many new ones like Slim, Jit, and Reco. We’re thrilled to have…

Cybersecurity

3 min read

Protect AI — MLSecOps, shift left security for AI/ML, welcome to boldstart
Protect AI — MLSecOps, shift left security for AI/ML, welcome to boldstart
Cybersecurity

3 min read


Eliot Durbin

Eliot Durbin

·Sep 22, 2022

Beyond Chaos into Reliability Engineering: announcing boldstart’s investment in Steadybit.

Over the past decade and a half, we’ve witnessed the explosive growth of cloud infrastructure. Today’s largest SaaS companies serve millions of customers who are paying billions of dollars in revenue. However despite this adoption, every software company continues to battle for higher availability and improved resilience of their software…

Infrastructure

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Beyond Chaos into Reliability Engineering: announcing boldstart’s investment in Steadybit.
Beyond Chaos into Reliability Engineering: announcing boldstart’s investment in Steadybit.
Infrastructure

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Ed Sim

Ed Sim

·Sep 20, 2022

Tres, the first financial data lake for crypto companies — welcome to boldstart

As a day one partner for technical founders, we ❤️ to invest in founders building 🏗 the future of enterprise infrastructure including decentralized. Ever since we first partnered with Changetip in 2014, we’ve made additional day one investments in crypto infrastructure startups like Blockdaemon, Fireblocks, Amberdata, Upstream, and many more. …

Crypto

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Tres, the first financial data lake for crypto companies — welcome to boldstart
Tres, the first financial data lake for crypto companies — welcome to boldstart
Crypto

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Ed Sim

Ed Sim

·Sep 14, 2022

dope.security, the fly direct secure web gateway — welcome to boldstart

At boldstart, we ❤️ to partner on day one with technical founders creating new categories in infrastructure and SaaS. However, there are certain times when we meet the right founders with the right experience and pain who are ready to reinvent massive existing industries. Examples include companies like Kustomer which…

Security

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dope.security, the fly direct secure web gateway — welcome to boldstart
dope.security, the fly direct secure web gateway — welcome to boldstart
Security

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Ed Sim

Ed Sim

·Jun 15, 2022

Jit — security as code, welcome to boldstart

As a day one partner for technical founders, we loved to invest in founders building 🏗️ at the intersection of developer tooling and security. Ever since we first partnered with Snyk in 2015, we’ve made additional investments in shift ⬅️, developer first security companies like Slim (dev first container security)…

Cybersecurity

4 min read

Jit — security as code, welcome to boldstart
Jit — security as code, welcome to boldstart
Cybersecurity

4 min read


Ellen Chisa

Ellen Chisa

·Jun 6, 2022

Stellate — the GraphQL platform for developers to easily speed up, manage, and scale GraphQL APIs…

Stellate — the GraphQL platform for developers to easily speed up, manage, and scale GraphQL APIs — welcome to Boldstart! At boldstart, we love to partner with technical founders who are solving a problem they’ve faced first-hand. That’s very much the case for Stellate founders Tim Suchanek and Max Stoiber. Tim faced the limitations with GraphQL as the first engineer at Prisma, while Max ran into them during his time…

Graph QL

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Stellate — the GraphQL platform for developers to easily speed up, manage, and scale GraphQL APIs…
Stellate — the GraphQL platform for developers to easily speed up, manage, and scale GraphQL APIs…
Graph QL

3 min read

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Ed Sim

Ed Sim

@boldstartvc day one partner + true believer for developer first, crypto infra & SaaS founders

Eliot Durbin

Eliot Durbin

@boldstartvc day one first check partner for enterprise founders, chronically curious New Yorker.

Adam Breeden

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