Ed Sim

Founder of boldstart ventures, partnering from Inception with bold, technical founders reimagining the enterprise.

Before you build your team, before you write your first line of code, before you even take your first check—that’s when boldstart gets to work.

We collaborate with technical founders well before company creation, lead pre-product rounds at Inception, and rally our early adopter enterprise network to help turn bold ideas into category-creating iconic companies.

Inception Investor/Board:

Snyk, Tessl, Protect AI (sold to Palo Alto Networks $700M), BigID, Kustomer (exit to Meta for reported $1B), Blockdaemon, Superhuman, Front, Security Scorecard, and previously Greenplum (Pivotal), GoToMeeting (Citrix), LivePerson (LPSN)

Ed has been recognized as a top-10 investor on the Forbes Midas Seed List for the last three 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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