Ed Sim
boldstart ventures in Miami
Founder and General Partner of boldstart ventures, a $1.1 Billion AUM Inception-stage venture firm backing technical founders building the Autonomous Enterprise.
Since 2010, boldstart has partnered with founders from first commit, leading inception rounds across cybersecurity, AI infrastructure, and physical AI - the foundational technologies powering the Autonomous Enterprise.
Ed’s inception investments and boards include:
Snyk, Protect AI (acquired byPalo Alto Networks $700M), Keycard, Spectro Cloud, Tessl, Surf AI, BigID, Kustomer (acquired by Meta $1B), Hypernative, Blockdaemon, Superhuman (acquired by Grammarly), Front, Security Scorecard, and previously Greenplum (Pivotal), GoToMeeting (Citrix), LivePerson (LPSN)
Ed has been recognized as a top investor on the Forbes Midas Seed List multiple times (Forbes profile on Ed here), and as the No. 1 seed investor in the Business Insider Seed 100 in 2023 + 2024.
Previous: co-founded Dawntreader Ventures, MState (enterprise blockchain lab), Harvard College 1993, varsity lacrosse
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