boldstart ventures is an inception-stage venture capital firm partnering with technical founders building the autonomous enterprise, often investing before a product, pitch deck, or company exists. The firm focuses on AI-native infrastructure, security, applications, and models, leading pre-product rounds and supporting founders from day zero through growth.
Their most common stage is seed (41% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $39.0M (across 130 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
80
Fund Size
$250M
Top Stage
Seed
Last 12 Mo
5
Team
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
140 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 Reco | Series B | $30M | Feb 2026 |
| RRecolabs | Unknown | $30M | Feb 2026 |
 Surf Ai | Seed | $57M | Jan 2026 |
 Uare.ai | Seed | $10.3M | Nov 2025 |
 Keycard | Seed | $38M | Oct 2025 |
 Keycard | Seed | $38M | Oct 2025 |
 Clay | Series C | $100M | Aug 2025 |
 Zango | Seed | — | Jul 2025 |
 Clay | Series C | $100M | Jan 2025 |
 Clay | Series C | $100M | Jan 2025 |
 Tessl | Series A | $125M | Nov 2024 |
 CREW AI | Series A | $18M | Oct 2024 |
 Noded | Seed | $4M | Jul 2024 |
 steadybit | Seed | $6M | Mar 2024 |
 WEVR | Unknown | $3.5M | Jan 2024 |
 Smallstep | Seed | $26M | Jan 2024 |
 Baz | Seed | $8M | Jan 2024 |
 Tres | Series A | $11M | Dec 2023 |
 Zuplo | Seed | — | Nov 2023 |
 Protect AI | Series A | $35M | Jul 2023 |
 Kustomer | Series C | $60M | May 2023 |
 dylibso (MCP.run) | Seed | $6.6M | Mar 2023 |
 dope.security | Series A | $16M | Mar 2023 |
 Hypernative | Series A | $9M | Jan 2023 |
 AtomicJar | Series A | $25M | Jan 2023 |
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Top Co-Investors
Tiger Global Management, LLC27 shared
GV15 shared
BoxGroup14 shared
Evolution Equity Partners12 shared
Accel12 shared
Insight Partners12 shared
Sequoia Capital11 shared
Salesforce Ventures11 shared
Plug&Play10 shared
Canaan Partners10 shared
Scale Venture Partners9 shared
Comcast Corporation9 shared
Coatue Management LLC8 shared
Battery Ventures8 shared
Addition8 shared
Eniac Ventures8 shared
StepStone Group8 shared
Ridgeline Partners7 shared
Lightspeed Venture Partners7 shared
M127 shared
Last updated: 27 September 2026