Ed Sim

Founder of boldstart ventures, a $1.1 Billion AUM Inception-stage venture firm backing technical founders building the Autonomous Enterprise, the foundational technologies powering the next era of intelligent systems.

Since 2010, boldstart has partnered with founders from first commit, leading or co-leading inception rounds across cybersecurity, AI infrastructure, and physical AI.

Ed's Inception Investments/Board include:

Snyk, Protect AI (sold to Palo Alto Networks $700M), Keycard, Spectro Cloud, Tessl, Surf AI, BigID, Kustomer (sold to Meta $1B), Hypernative, Blockdaemon, Superhuman (sold to 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 for the last four years (Forbes profile on Ed here), and as the No. 1 seed investor in the Business InsiderSeed 100 in 2023 + 2024.

Previous: co-founded Dawntreader Ventures, MState (enterprise blockchain lab), Harvard College 1993, varsity lacrosse

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