Empowering Dev-First Startups: Ed Sim's Boldstart Vision

Ed Sim is the Founder of boldstart, partnering from Inception with developer first, infrastructure and SaaS founders. He loves working with engineering-driven founders with bold ideas and laser-sharp focus on product well before writing their first lines of code. Ed has been in the trenches with Snyk, Kustomer (sold to Meta), BigID, Blockdaemon, Superhuman, Security Scorecard, Front and so many more from inception. Ed also co-founded MState in 2017, an enterprise blockchain lab in partnership with IBM, where seed investments include Fireblocks and Amberdata. He is a true partner from day one—helping bold founders start, scale, exit and have fun along the way. Ed has been recognized as a top-10 investor on the Forbes Midas Seed List for the last two years, and as the No. 1 seed investor in the Business Insider Seed 100. Prior to boldstart, Ed was a Co-Founder of Dawntreader Ventures, where he inception investments in Greenplum (sold to EMC, Pivotal—IPO), GoToMeeting (sold to Citrix), and LivePerson (IPO). Previous to that, he worked at J.P. Morgan, where he learned how to code and build quantitative trading models. Ed graduated from Harvard College and was a four-year letterman on the men’s lacrosse team. Topics: - Key qualities boldstart looks for in technical founders aiming to reinvent the enterprise - Developer tools, cybersecurity, and infrastructure in modern enterprises - The long-term outlook for AI investments versus short-term market reactions #EnterpriseAI #AIinEnterprise #VCInsights #TechInvesting #AI