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    Boldstart Ventures

    New York, New York, United StatesFounded 2010

    Boldstart Ventures is a venture capital firm that specializes in early-stage, inception-stage investments for enterprise technology startups. They focus on backing technical founders building for the "autonomous enterprise," with key areas including AI-native infrastructure, cybersecurity, developer tools, cloud infrastructure, and SaaS, often investing before a product or company officially exists.

    30% of their portfolio is in Cybersecurity. Deal activity increased 67% year-over-year (5 deals in the last 12 months). Average disclosed round size is $43.4M (across 59 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    63

    Fund Size

    $1.6B

    Top Stage

    Seed

    Last 12 Mo

    5

    Team

    ED

    Eliot Durbin

    General Partner

    EA

    Ernest Addison

    Director

    EC

    Ellen Chisa

    Partner

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    63 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    RRecoSeries B$30MFeb 2026
    Uare.ai logoUare.aiSeed$10.3MNov 2025
    Keycard logoKeycardSeed$38MOct 2025
    Clay logoClaySeries C$100MAug 2025
    Zango AI logoZango AISeed$4MJul 2025
    Tessl logoTesslSeries A$125MNov 2024
    CrewAI logoCrewAISeries A$18MOct 2024
    Noded AI logoNoded AISeed$4MJul 2024
    TTresSeries A$11MDec 2023
    Protect AI logoProtect AISeries A$35MJul 2023
    Kustomer logoKustomerSeries C$60MMay 2023
    Dylibso logoDylibsoSeed$6.6MMar 2023
    Dope Security logoDope SecuritySeries A$16MMar 2023
    Hypernative logoHypernativeSeries A$9MJan 2023
    AtomicJar logoAtomicJarSeries A$25MJan 2023
    Protect AI logoProtect AISeed$13.5MDec 2022
    Snyk logoSnykGrowth$196.5MDec 2022
    EEasopSeed$2.5MOct 2022
    Jeli.io logoJeli.ioSeries A$15MSep 2022
    TTresSeed$7.6MSep 2022
    Dope Security logoDope SecuritySeed$4MSep 2022
    Kumospace logoKumospaceSeries A$21MAug 2022
    Robin logoRobinSeries C$30MJul 2022
    Jit logoJitSeed$38.5MJun 2022
    CloudQuery logoCloudQuerySeries A$15MJun 2022
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    Top Co-Investors

    BoxGroup6 shared
    Salesforce6 shared
    Accel5 shared
    Addition5 shared
    Heavybit4 shared
    SV Angel3 shared
    Seedcamp3 shared
    Haystack3 shared
    aCrew3 shared
    Knollwood3 shared

    Last updated: 10 April 2026