Investing Profile

Ed Sim(862)

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Founder and Managing Partner at Boldstart Ventures
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83 Investors

Connected to Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures), Jeff Clavier (Uncork Capital), Stephanie Palmeri (NextView Ventures), and 80 other investors on Signal.

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Current Investing Position
Boldstart Ventures Managing Partner
Investment Range
$250K - $10.0M
Sweet Spot
$1M
Investments On Record
88
Current Fund Size
$112M

Ed Sim is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Ed Sim's Investments On Record (42)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Humanix
SeedNov 2025
$18M
Co-investors: Asad Khaliq (aCrew Capital)
Uare.ai
SeedNov 2025$10M
$10M
Keycard
SeedOct 2025$8M
$38M
Co-investors: Zane Lackey (Andreessen Horowitz), Asad Khaliq (aCrew Capital), Ryan Carlson, Matias Woloski
Waldo
Series AOct 2025$10M
SeedJul 2021
$31M
Co-investors: Josh Zelman (Insight Partners), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Footwork), Allison Pickens (Allison Pickens Ventures, formerly The New Normal Fund), Mike Smith (Footwork), Sylvain Zimmer (50 Partners), Nicolas Dessaigne (Y Combinator), Josef Feldman (Tectonic Capital), Sean Rad, Justin Mateen, Nigel Wray, Ben Porterfield, Liu Jiang
Hypernative
Series BJun 2025$40M
SeedJan 2023$9M
$65M
Co-investors: Mark Hatfield (Ten Eleven Ventures), Richard Ma (Pioneer Fund)
Protect AI
Series BAug 2024$60M
Series AJul 2023$35M
SeedDec 2022$14M
$110M
Co-investors: Kim Moore (U&I Ventures), Richard Seewald (Evolution Equity Partners), Mark Kraynak (aCrew Capital), Shlomo Kramer
Tres
Series ADec 2023$11M
SeedSep 2022$8M
$19M
Co-investors: Alex Marinier (New Form Capital), Banafsheh Fathieh (Faction VC), Samuel Harrison (Blockchain.com Ventures)
Roadie
SeedJul 2023$4M
$41M
Co-investors: Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors), DROdio - Daniel R. Odio
Ed Sim's Media (12)

Ed Sim got into venture capital by answering a newspaper ad. Today he's the industry's No. 1 seed investor.

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Midas Seed List 2023: The Earliest Venture Capital Backers In Today’s Tech Icons

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Boldstart Ventures gets bigger thanks to Kustomer and other early bets on technical founders – TechCrunch

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Ed Sim of Boldstart Ventures on the Next Wave of Developer First Startups - StrictlyVC Download

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ed sim – What Got You There With Sean DeLaney

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‎Software Engineering Daily: Enterprise Investing with Ed Sim on Apple Podcasts

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E12: Boldstart Ed Sim: 20yrs& 50+ enterprise, father fled N.Korea, NYC deep tech, being 1st $ in

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New York’s Boldstart Ventures has raised $157 million across two funds to back nascent enterprise startups – TechCrunch

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'Low code' and 'no code' products is the hottest trend in enterprise startups

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Venture Confidential | Ep. #14, Building Community with Boldstart's Ed Sim | Heavybit

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SaaStr Podcast #190: Ed Sim, Founder & GP @ Boldstart Ventures on Why SaaS Founders Should Not Sell Their Products in The Early Days | SaaStr

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Special Report: New York’s enterprise infrastructure ecosystem – TechCrunch

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most interested in

Your partner from Inception + true believer for developer first, enterprise infra & SaaS founders, lead + love new category creation

not interested in

All enterprise all the time - no consumer

Ed Sim's Experience

Founder and Managing Partner BOLDstart VenturesPresent
Co-Founder MStatePresent

Ed Sim's Education

Harvard University