Boldstart Ventures
boldstart.vc Direct investor
Boldstart Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in technical founders building enterprise-focused companies, particularly in AI-native infrastructure, security, apps, and models. They lead pre-product rounds at the inception stage and support founders from before company formation.
Boldstart Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco, United States. It invests directly in companies, at pre-seed, in AI-native infrastructure, security, apps and models.
“We collaborate with technical founders well before company creation, lead pre-product rounds at Inception, and rally our early adopter network to help turn bold ideas into category-creating iconic companies.”
— Boldstart Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Stage
- Pre-seed
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Sectors
- AI-native infrastructure, security, apps, models, enterprise
Team, as Boldstart Ventures publishes it
- Ed Sim Founder and General Partner
- Eliot Durbin General Partner
- Ellen Chisa Partner
- Ernest Addison Senior Associate
- Charlotte Chapanoff Head of Marketing & Global Events
- Jennifer Moy Chief Operating Officer
Names and roles exactly as listed on boldstart.vc. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 19 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- 3VC 1 shared company: snyk.io
- Alkeon Capital Management, LLC 1 shared company: snyk.io
- Amplify Partners 1 shared company: snyk.io
- Build Ventures 1 shared company: snyk.io
- Canaan Partners 1 shared company: snyk.io
- Earlybird 1 shared company: snyk.io
- Elaia 1 shared company: snyk.io
- Evolution Equity Partners 1 shared company: snyk.io
- G Squared Equity Management LP 1 shared company: snyk.io
- Geodesic Investments, L.L.C 1 shared company: snyk.io
and 9 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Boldstart Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://boldstart.vc/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, status
- https://boldstart.vc/team/people
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Record 748 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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