BOLDstart Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in providing seed, startup, and early stage investments. The firm provides micro-venture capital funding. It seeks to invest in companies in technology, Internet, enterprise software and services, mobile, software-as-a-service, smart data and cloud computing markets. The firm typically invests between $ 0.5 million and $ 1 million. The firm typically invests $ 0.25 million to $ 0.3 million in seed rounds and another $ 0.3 million to $ 0.5 million in Series A deals. BOLDstart Ventures was founded in 2010 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in New York.
BOLDstart Ventures is a New York-based, micro-VC fund that seeks to partner with and provide seed funding to bold entrepreneurs in the Internet, mobile, and cloud computing markets. BoldStart was founded in 2010 and is based in New York. The founding members are Dward G. Sim (Managing Partner, Founding Partner, General Partner & Founder) Eliot Durbin (Managing Partner & General Partner), Jeffrey P. Leventhal (Venture Partner), Andrew Toy (Advisor) and Guy Podjarny (Advisor).
BoldStart Ventures has funded over 60 enterprise startups, for example, BigID, Security Scorecard, snyk.io, Kustomer, Divide (sold to Google), Goinstant (sold to Salesforce), blaze.io (sold to Akamai), and Rapportive (sold to LinkedIn). BoldStart has partnered with Fortune 500 CIOs, CTOs, and CISOs.
They connect company executives and enterprise-focused companies. BoldStart collaborates with senior Fortune 500 executives about their technology priorities and attempts to help identify startup partners to serve those goals. These partnerships are intended to enable enterprises to test, iterate, and implement emerging software.
Boldstart Ventures has made 90 investments. One investment was on Feb 14, 2019, when they invested $13.5M in Pinpoint.The firm has raised a total of $105.6M across 4 funds, their latest being Boldstart Ventures IV. This fund was announced on Sep 21, 2018, and raised a total of $40.7M.They partner with and provide seed funding to entrepreneurs in the Internet, mobile, and cloud computing markets.
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Funded Companies
A company offering an email client designed to be the fastest email experience. The company was founded by Conrad Irwin, Rahul Vohra, and Vivek Sodera in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
A software company making a workplace email communication platform for remote and office work.
A technology company offering software development security platform using open source code.
Wonder is a research service company offering research work for consultants, agencies, and financial institutions.
A cybersecurity company offering cybersecurity and security rating services.
BigID is a cybersecurity company developing a platform for data protection and privacy compliance.
Handshake is a New York-based company founded in 2010.
American computer and biometric security company.
A CyberSecurity rating platform.
Catalytic, a powerful automation cloud, frees employees to focus energies on meaningful work by improving recurring business processes.
ChangeTip is a San Francisco-based payment processing company founded in 2013 by Nick Sullivan.
Customer service software
Klipfolio is a data analytics and visualization platform provider offering business intelligence dashboards based on specific data profiles.
Blockdaemon is a blockchain deployment facilitator capable of managing nodes and payment rails for blockchain networks.
Pinpoint is an Austin, Texas-based company.
WorkRails is a New York-based company.
Slim.AI, Inc. is a Boxborough, Massachusetts-based company founded in 2020.
Sendence is a New York City-based software development company.
Associated investment funds
People
Andrew Toy
Advisor
Bernardo de Albergaria
Advisor
Bradford Oberwager
Investor
Darren Craft
Investor
Dr. J.R. Reagan
Advisor
Edward G. Sim
Managing Partner, Founding Partner, General Partner & Founder
Eliot Durbin
Managing Partner & General Partner
Greg Colella
Employee
Guy Podjarny
Advisor
Jeffrey P. Leventhal
Venture Partner
Max Kayen
Employee
Michael Weider
Advisor
Mortimer Sackler
Investor
Rahim Fazal
Advisor
Rahul Vohra
Advisor
Ryan Craft
Investor
Sean Chou
Investor
Vince Beese
Investor
Zachary Aarons
Investor
Further reading
Boldstart Ventures locks down $47 million for fund three
Connie Loizos
Web
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
E12: Boldstart Ed Sim: 20yrs& 50+ enterprise, father fled N.Korea, NYC deep tech, being 1st $ in
Dec 17, 2017
March 2013 NY Enterprise Technology Meetup - fireside chat with VC Ed Sim
Mar 14, 2013
Companies
AskWonder
BidID
Blaze
BlockDaemon
Catalytic
ChangeTip
Clay
Coherent Path
Dark
Divide
Dropout Labs
Emissary
Fortress
Front
GoInstant
GoTOMeeting
Greenplum
Handshake
HYPR
Init.Ai
IOpipe
Jyve
Klipfolio
Kustomer
LivePerson
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