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Boldstart Ventures

Founders Ed Sim

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Total investments 183
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$16M
Portfolio companies 89
Rounds per year 13.07
Lead investments 19
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.50
Exits 19
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Enterprise Software
  • Information Technology
  • Security
Summary

Boldstart Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2010. The main department of described VC is located in the New York. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The fund was created by Ed Sim. The overall number of key employees were 6.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight REBEL, Indiegogo, Crew. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Analytics, Information Technology.

The top activity for fund was in 2016. This Boldstart Ventures works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The typical startup value when the investment from Boldstart Ventures is 100-500 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the Boldstart Ventures, startups are often financed by Plug and Play, New Enterprise Associates, Canaan Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are BoxGroup, Plug and Play, New Enterprise Associates. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Accomplice, Comcast Ventures, Sequoia Capital.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

steadybit

PaaS
SaaS
Software
$6M11 Mar 2024 Nordrhein-Westfalen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Tres

Accounting
Blockchain
Enterprise Software
$11M20 Dec 2023 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Zuplo

Software
$9M08 Nov 2023 Seattle, Washington, United States

Protect AI

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Security
Software
$35M26 Jul 2023 Seattle, Washington, United States

Roadie

$3M11 Jul 2023 Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Memphis.dev

$5M28 Jun 2023 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

UtilizeCore

Information Services
Internet
Software
$16M28 May 2023 New York, New York, United States

env0

Cloud Data Services
Information Services
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$18M29 Mar 2023 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Dope Security

Information Technology
Security
$16M15 Mar 2023 Mountain View, California, United States
News
Replicated Raises $50M in Series C Funding

– Replicated is a Culver City CA-based provider of solutions for software vendors to operationalize and scale the delivery of their applications into complex enterprise multi-prem environments.
– The company raised $50m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by Owl Rock with participation from Lead Edge Capital, Headline, Two Sigma Ventures, Amplify Partners, BoldStart, Ridgeline, and Heavybit.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate growth and expand into more global markets.

Spectro Cloud Announces $20M Completion of Series A Funding to Unleash Full Potential of Kubernetes in Production Environments with Next-Gen Management Platform

– Spectro Cloud, a next-gen Kubernetes enterprise management platform, announced the completion of its Series A funding round, amounting to $20M.
– The round was led by Stripes, a leading investor in software and consumer products.
– Prior to this current investment round, Spectro Cloud had previously raised $7.5M in seed funding from Sierra Ventures, boldstart ventures, WestWave Capital and Firebolt Ventures, all of which also participated in the current Series A funding round.
– Additional Series A investors include T-Mobile Ventures and Alter Venture Partners.

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Total investments 183
Average round size 16M
Rounds per year 13.07
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 19
Follow on index 0.50
Exits 19
Group Appearance index 0.96

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

steadybit

PaaS
SaaS
Software
$6M11 Mar 2024 Nordrhein-Westfalen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Tres

Accounting
Blockchain
Enterprise Software
$11M20 Dec 2023 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Zuplo

Software
$9M08 Nov 2023 Seattle, Washington, United States

Protect AI

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Security
Software
$35M26 Jul 2023 Seattle, Washington, United States

Roadie

$3M11 Jul 2023 Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Memphis.dev

$5M28 Jun 2023 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

UtilizeCore

Information Services
Internet
Software
$16M28 May 2023 New York, New York, United States

env0

Cloud Data Services
Information Services
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$18M29 Mar 2023 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Dope Security

Information Technology
Security
$16M15 Mar 2023 Mountain View, California, United States
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