# boldstart ventures

> boldstart ventures is a VC fund in New York backing Software and SaaS. See 212 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 212
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 35%
- Fund size: $192M
- Last fund: Jun 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/1136503
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/BOLDstartVC
- Website: http://www.boldstart.vc
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BOLDSTART

boldstart ventures is a VC fund in New York focused on Software and SaaS. Before you build your team, before you write your first line of code, before you even take your first check—that’s when boldstart gets to work. We collaborate with technical founders well before company creation, lead pre-product rounds at inception, and rally our developer-first and SaaS network to help turn bold ideas into category-creatingiconic companies.We’ve been in the trenches with Snyk, Blockdaemon, Kustomer, BigID, Superhuman (and so many more) from day one.The investment firm was founded in 2010 by Ed Sim and is headquartered in New York, New York, United States.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$9M |
| Series A | $6M–$31M |
| Series B | $18M–$80M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 44 | 21% |
| SaaS | 23 | 11% |
| Information Technology | 22 | 10% |
| Enterprise Software | 20 | 9% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 17 | 8% |

123 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 87 | 41% |
| Series A | 39 | 18% |
| Series B | 23 | 11% |
| Series C | 11 | 5% |
| Funding Round | 7 | 3% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 83 | 39% |
| Israel | 5 | 2% |
| Canada | 4 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 1% |
| France | 1 | 0% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ab Gupta | Operating Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ab-gupta |
| Charlotte Chapanoff | General Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charlotte-chapanoff |
| Ed Sim | Founder & Managing Partner | 83 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ed-sim |
| Eliot Durbin | General Partner | 23 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eliot-durbin |
| Ellen Chisa | Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ellen-chisa |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Baz | Developers no longer have to manually piece together the impact of pull requests; Baz models, analyzes and reviews code changes, detecting breaking changes, enforcing consistency, and highlighting misaligned coding patterns. Baz makes every review faster, more accurate, and aligned with the real-world impact of the code changes being made. | $9M | Seed | Jun 29, 2026 |  |
| Generalist AI | Generalist AI is a robotics firm formed by a senior researcher who left Google to investigate robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) at Google Deepmind. | $400M | Series B | Jun 04, 2026 |  |
| Surf AI | Surf AI aims to help enterprise security teams continuously identify and close security exposure gaps through an AI-driven operations platform. | $57M | Series A | Mar 17, 2026 |  |
| Reco | Reco provides a SaaS security platform that helps organizations monitor, discover, and manage cloud applications, identities, and associated risks using AI-powered analysis. Its platform continuously maps interactions across applications and users to surface misconfigurations, over-permissioned users, compromised accounts, and risky behaviors sosecurity teams can prioritize actions based on context and risk. Reco also includes AI agents that autonomously process alerts and deliver context-rich insights to streamline threat detection and remediation. The company’s tools extend to discovering shadow apps and generative AI tools, consolidating identity governance, and maintaining visibility across dynamic SaaS environments. | $30M | Series B | Feb 10, 2026 |  |
| ANEMNESS | ANEMNESS is an AI-powered daily execution system that unifies calendars, tasks, emails, and project management tools into one realistic daily plan. The platform features intelligent day-start framing that analyzes all incoming obligations to recommend priorities and realistic time allocations, a unified view with smart timeboxing,distraction-blocking focus mode, and automated end-of-day shutdown summaries. | $2.5M | Seed | Jan 23, 2026 |  |
| Topos Bio | Topos Bio is an AI-powered biotechnology company developing therapies for intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs). The company’s platform integrates physics with generative AI to target proteins involved in neurodegeneration, oncology, and metabolic diseases. | $10.5M | Seed | Jan 08, 2026 |  |
| Humanix | Humanix is a conversational AI for cybersecurity that has been trained on natural language attacks and human psychology. |  | Seed | Nov 12, 2025 |  |
| Uare.ai | Uare.ai is committed to creating individualized AI identities in order to preserve each person's distinct personality. specialize in documenting thoughts, feelings, and experiences to create a digital persona that accurately captures who you are. | $10.3M | Seed | Nov 11, 2025 |  |
| Velcar.IO | Velcar helps creators and developers bring AI characters to life in games, simulations, training, and interactive experiences. The platform combines natural language intelligence with vision, voice, and spatial awareness, allowing characters to perceive their environment, respond with realistic dialogue and behavior, and perform meaningful actionsin real time. With no-code creation tools for creators and deep engine integrations for developers, Velcar makes it easy to craft once and deploy everywhere — from web and mobile to Unity, Unreal, and immersive 3D worlds. | $2.7M | Seed | Oct 30, 2025 |  |
| Keycard | Keycard is on a mission to reimagine machine identity for the Internet, assisting developers in seamlessly connecting people, agents, and services across networks, clouds, and apps. | $8M | Seed | Oct 21, 2025 |  |

10 of 212 investments shown.

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- [BoxGroup](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boxgroup) — VC Fund, 17 deals together
- [Tiger Global Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiger-global) — VC Fund, 15 deals together
- [Heavybit](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heavybit-industries) — VC Fund, 14 deals together
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- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Canaan Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canaan-partners) — VC Fund, 10 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does boldstart ventures invest in?

boldstart ventures invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 212 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is boldstart ventures's check size?

boldstart ventures typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$9M at Seed, $6M–$31M at Series A and $18M–$80M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds boldstart ventures participates in.

### How do I contact boldstart ventures?

Public channels for boldstart ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at boldstart ventures?

The team at boldstart ventures includes Ab Gupta (Operating Partner), Charlotte Chapanoff (General Manager) and Ed Sim (Founder & Managing Partner), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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