# Ed Sim What an amazing time to build šŸ—ļø Iā€™ve spent 30 years partnering with technical founders at Inception, often before thereā€™s a company. I started boldstart to keep doing exactly that. These days, that means a lot of conversations about cybersecurity, AI infrastructure, physical AI, and agents. Iā€™m constantly experimenting, learning from founders, and rethinking whatā€™s possible. Every week in Whatā€™s Hot šŸ”„, I share what Iā€™m seeing, reading, and learning from the founders building what comes next. Thirty years in, and Iā€™m as fired up as the founders just getting started. Newsletter: https://whatshot.vc Firm: https://boldstart.vc LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/edsim/ X: https://x.com/edsim ## Background Ed Sim is the founder of boldstart ventures, a $1.1B AUM venture firm that invests at Inceptionā€”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. Notable investments and board roles include Snyk, Protect AI (acq. Palo Alto Networks), Keycard AI, Surf AI, Kustomer (acq. Meta), Superhuman (acq. Grammarly), Tessl, Hypernative, Blockdaemon, Spectro Cloud, SecurityScorecard, and Front. The broader boldstart portfolio includes Clay, Generalist, and Topos Bio. Ed also co-founded MState with IBM, which backed Fireblocks at formation. Names to the Forbes Midas Seed List multiple times (profiled here) and ranked No. 1 in Business Insiderā€™s Seed 100 in 2023 and 2024 (profiled here), Ed authors Whatā€™s šŸ”„ in AI/Infra/VC, a widely read newsletter on AI infrastructure and venture. With more than 30 years of venture investing experience, Ed previously co-founded Dawntreader Ventures, where he led inception investments in Greenplum (EMC, later Pivotal IPO), GoToMeeting (Citrix), and LivePerson (IPO). He began his career at J.P. Morgan building quantitative trading models and learned sales by selling Cutco knives in college. Harvard College, BA Economics. Four years D1 lacrosse. Favorite food: Mexican food, breakfast burritos Favorite arcade game: Donkey Kong Jr., Galaga Favorite cartoon character: Underdog Favorite music: Numb/Encore ā€“ Linkin Park & Jay Z Favorite emoji: fire šŸ”„ muscle šŸ’Ŗ punch šŸ‘Š astonishment šŸ˜², but admit there isnā€™t an emoji I donā€™t love. Source: https://boldstart.vc/team/ed-sim/