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Ed Sim

General Partner at Boldstart Ventures

Miami, Florida

Overview 

Ed Sim is the Founder and General Partner at boldstart ventures, where he has invested in successful companies like Snyk and Kustomer. He specializes in partnering with bold founders reinventing the enterprise stack and has a track record of investing in innovative startups in sectors like cybersecurity and SaaS, making significant contributions to the tech industry.

Work Experience 

  • Founder and General Partner

    2010 - Current

    boldstart ventures, partnering from Inception with bold founders reinventing the enterprise stack - Snyk, Kustomer, BigID, Blockdaemon...

  • Investor/Board

    2015

    developer first security

Snyk is a cloud native application security provider that enables millions of developers to build software securely.

Raised $1,195,500,000.00 from ServiceNow.

  • Investor, Board

    2016

    Data intelligence platform enables orgs to know their enterprise data and take action for privacy, protection, and perspective

BigID is a data intelligence company that helps organizations discover, manage, and protect sensitive information.

Raised $306,099,999.00 from Riverwood Capital, Advent International and Silver Lake Waterman.

  • Investor/Board

    2022

  • Investor, Board

    2015

Kustomer is an omnichannel Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) CRM platform specializing in customer service.

Raised $233,500,000.00 from Redpoint, Battery Ventures and boldstart ventures.

  • Investor/Board of Directors

    2017

    blockchain nodes as a service, spin up a node in minutes so you can quickly scale decentralized apps

Blockdaemon is a blockchain deployment facilitator that manages nodes and payment rails for blockchain networks.

Raised $431,300,797.00 from Axevil Capital.

  • Investor

    2014

Superhuman is a software platform that weaves social insights into a workflow.

Raised $108,000,000.00 from Drew Houston, Will Smith, Tiger Global Management, Jason Citron, Arianna Huffington, The Chainsmokers, Ashton Kutcher, Henrique Dubugras, Timothy Young and IVP.

  • Investor

    2013

SecurityScorecard is a cybersecurity platform used for predicting and remediating potential security risks.

Raised $292,200,000.00 from Kayne Anderson Rudnick (KAR), Accomplice, Riverwood Capital, Evolution Equity Partners, Google Ventures, T. Rowe Price, NGP Capital, The Syndicate Group, boldstart ventures and AXA Venture Partners.

  • Investor

    2014

Front is a communication hub for building strong customer relationships on digital channels.

Raised $203,600,000.00 from boldstart ventures, Battery Ventures, Threshold, Jennifer Tejada, Vine Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Sequoia Capital and Uncork Capital.

  • Investor/Board

    2019

env0 is the first self-service cloud management platform for infrastructure as code (IaC) architecture

Raised $41,900,000.00 from M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Knollwood Investment Advisory, Venture Guides, Grove Ventures, Crescendo Venture Partners, boldstart ventures, StepStone Group, Crescendo Venture Partners, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund and Grove Ventures.

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