Ed Sim
boldstart ventures in Miami
Founder and General Partner of boldstart ventures, a $1.1B AUM venture firm that invests at Inception—helping the bold start.
Since 2010, boldstart has been the first check for technical founders building across cybersecurity, AI infrastructure, physical AI, agents, and the occasional wonderfully weird thing
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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