Ed Sim is the founder and Managing Partner of Boldstart Ventures. See portfolio, sector focus and contact routes.
Ed Sim is the founder and Managing Partner of Boldstart Ventures, an early-stage venture firm with $1.1 billion in assets under management that he established in 2010 after co-founding Dawntreader Ventures in 1998. He focuses on inception-stage investments in enterprise software, developer tools, cybersecurity infrastructure, and B2B SaaS, backing technical founders primarily in the US, Canada, Europe, and Israel. Boldstart typically invests between $250,000 and $10 million, with a $1 million sweet spot, and Sim acts as a lead investor who often partners with founders at company formation. His notable portfolio includes Snyk, Kustomer, Superhuman, and Front, with Sim serving as a board member at Snyk and Kustomer. Sim is recognized as the industry’s number one seed investor, having been ranked first on Business Insider’s Seed 100 list in both 2023 and 2024. He is a vocal advocate for the “Autonomous Enterprise” and “Autonomous World,” emphasizing developer-first, engineering-driven founders as key to reinventing the enterprise stack.
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