Eliot Durbin
General Partner @ boldstart ventures
New York, United States
Eliot Durbin is a seed investor at boldstart ventures in New York focused on Software and SaaS. Eliot Durbin is the General Partner of Boldstart Ventures. He is a former co-founder and Managing Partner at Penny Black. He attended Georgetown University and Columbia University.
- Total investments:
- 24
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
Last updated:
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Industries Eliot Durbin invests in
Stages Eliot Durbin invests in
Countries Eliot Durbin invests in
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.7M–$7M
- Series A
- $6M–$22M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (29%)
- SaaS 2 (8%)
- FinTech 2 (8%)
- Computer 2 (8%)
- Internet 2 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 12 (50%)
- Series A 7 (29%)
- Angel 1 (4%)
- Series B 1 (4%)
Country
- United States 12 (50%)
- Canada 2 (8%)
- Germany 1 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Waldo is a corporation that provides research services. By making Google search more productive, Waldo assists in finding what is needed faster, such as data points, contact information, insights, and more. X-ray examination Rather than relying on Google's restricted page previews, Waldo thoroughly examines each result and extracts therelevant information in a skimmable, searchable format. | $10M / Series A / Oct 01, 2025 | ||
| Your business deserves the best possible preventive action, no matter how complex your system-landscape is. steadybit adds that little extra certainty to your development and testing-workflow. Easy to install. Choose between SaaS or on-prem. | $6M / Series A / Mar 11, 2024 | ||
| Programmable API management for developers. Simpler, better alternative to Apigee and Kong | $9M / Seed / Nov 08, 2023 | ||
| Olympix is a startup that wants to make Web3 more secure.It is a cutting-edge developer tool for preventive Web3 security. | $4.3M / Seed / Jul 11, 2023 | ||
| UtilizeCore is an AI-powered marketplace that matches assets with service brokers and service providers. The Marketplace is run by SaaS subscribers who procure service providers and deliver quality service anytime, anywhere. Service requesters and service provider users download the app to buy or sell services to SaaS subscribers. They offersubscribers the ability to integrate any accounting, CRM, payroll, CMMS, IoT device, or industry-specific application through a self-serve interface (i.e., Quickbooks, ServiceChannel, Stripe, Plaid, SalesForce, Hubspot, Vetty, FM Pilot, Corrigo, EquipID, etc.).Founded in 2020, UtilizeCore is headquartered in New York, United States. | $16.7M / Series A / May 28, 2023 | ||
| Jeli is an incident analysis platform that combines more comprehensive data to deliver more proactive solutions and identify problems. It goes beyond technical errors and collects data on contributors that are so often overlooked, like team coordination and human factors. | $15M / Series A / Sep 28, 2022 | ||
| Your business deserves the best possible preventive action, no matter how complex your system-landscape is. steadybit adds that little extra certainty to your development and testing-workflow. Easy to install. Choose between SaaS or on-prem. | $5M / Seed / Sep 22, 2022 | ||
| Kumospace is a developer of an online immersive video chat platform intended to provide remote video conferencing. Kumospace's platform facilitates users to connect people through video, voice, chat, and content sharing and provides a security of video conferencing, enabling users to host face-to-face video and connect friends across variousdevices and locations in a single meeting. | $21.9M / Series A / Aug 08, 2022 | ||
| Amberdata is defining the Cryptoeconomics data provider category. By combining validated blockchain and crypto market data from the leading crypto exchanges into a unified platform and API, Amberdata enables customers to build data-powered applications to develop and maintain an edge over their competition.The company was founded in 2017 in Paloalto, California led by Shawn Douglass. | $30M / Series B / May 04, 2022 | ||
| Smallstep (smallstep.com) is building an identity authority for dev/sec/ops teams that integrates with delivery pipelines, making code “identity aware” to secure connected apps across clouds, containers, serverless, and devices. | $7M / Seed / Apr 28, 2022 | ||
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Co-Investors
About boldstart ventures
boldstart ventures focuses on early-stage investments in enterprise technology startups. The firm partners with technical founders at Imception, often before a product is built or a team is fully formed. It provides funding and strategic support for pre-product development and leverages an enterprise network to connect founders with early adopters. boldstart ventures has worked with companies such as Snyk, Blockdaemon, Kustomer, BigID, and Superhuman, supporting them from their earliest stages. Its approach centers on helping founders shape their business models and accelerate product-market fit during the initial phases of growth.
boldstart ventures Contacts
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Ab Gupta
Operating Partner
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Charlotte Chapanoff
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Ed Sim
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Eliot Durbin
General Partner
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Ellen Chisa
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FAQ
What does Eliot Durbin invest in?
Eliot Durbin invests primarily in Software, SaaS and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 24 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Eliot Durbin invest in?
Eliot Durbin typically joins rounds of $1.7M–$7M at Seed and $6M–$22M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Eliot Durbin's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Eliot Durbin took part in.
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When did Eliot Durbin last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Eliot Durbin closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 24 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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