Boldstart Ventures
also referred to as: bold start · boldstart
32 statements across 6 episodes · 10 bullish · 4 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Nov 30, 2015 by Ed Sim · said 39 times in 15 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Harry Stebbings (25), Guy Podjarny (4), Ed Sim (4), Rahul Vohra (3), Lo Toney (1), Jason Lemkin (1), Adam Besvinick (1)
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 2 mentions in 1 episode
2023 12 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
- Ed Sim: Why Seed Has Never Been More Competitive & Why Pricing Has Never Been Higher | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Guy Podjarney: $7.4B Startup Founder; How to Analyse Market Size; Good vs Great Messaging | E1018 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Adam Besnivick: How to Invest in Pre-Seed & Seed Stage Companies; Looking Glass Capital | E1020 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: How Fundraising For Funds Has Changed in The World of COVID, The Benefits of Managers Selling Part of Their GP & How To Think Through Your "Minimum Viable Fund Size" with Lo Toney, Founding Managing Partner @ Plexo Capital
- 20VC: Superhuman's Rahul Vohra on How 1-1 Customer Onboarding Can Scale Efficiently to $100M ARR, Why Gamification Does Not Work But Game Design Does & What Game Design Means For The Next Generation Of Product Managers
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2019 10 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: Superhuman's Rahul Vohra on How To Measure Product Market Fit, How To Construct A Process To Increase It & How To Implement A Strong Feedback and Reporting Cycle To Sustain It
- 20VC: Inside The Mind of A Leading LP: How LPs Evaluate New Fund Managers on Everything from First Meeting to Portfolio Construction To Fees and Carry with Lisa Edgar, Managing Director @ Top Tier Capital Partners
- 20VC: Front's Mathilde Collin on Why Discipline Is More Important Than Vision, The Right Way To Approach Investor Updates and Director Reports & How To Effectively Structure 1-1s
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2016 1 mention in 1 episode
2015 9 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
- 20 VC 092: The Repeatable Playbook of SaaS with Ed Sim, Founding Partner @ BoldStart Ventures
- 20 VC 093: Where Is The Micro VC Market Going with Samir Kaji @ First Republic Bank
- 20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures
- every mention in 2015, scene by scene →
Everything said about Boldstart Ventures, oldest first
Nov 30, 2015 neutral
Nov 30, 2015 positive
Nov 30, 2015
Nov 30, 2015 positive
Nov 30, 2015 neutral
Nov 30, 2015 neutral
Nov 30, 2015 neutral
Nov 30, 2015 negative
Nov 30, 2015
BoldStart receives 75% of its deal flow from its founder network
“I mean, I think we've tracked that about 75% of our flow comes from founders, whether they be founders that we funded before, you know, their VPs, The engineers that work there, or even, you know, from founders in our existing portfolio who are referring their…”
Nov 4, 2019 positive
May 24, 2023 positive
May 29, 2023 positive
Oct 27, 2023 neutral
Oct 27, 2023 neutral
Oct 27, 2023 neutral
Oct 27, 2023
Oct 27, 2023 bearish
Oct 27, 2023 neutral
Oct 27, 2023 negative
Oct 27, 2023
Sim: Inception rounds split into discovery, classic, and Megatron jumbo tiers
“The point is the three rounds are, there's a discovery round, which my opinion is less than two million. So it's usually like maybe a first time founder exploring a new market. It would graduate to the next round, which would be a classic. And a classic round,…”
Oct 27, 2023
Sim: Startups solving hard technical problems appear slow before hitting rapid growth
“Some of the hardest problems to solve will take longer and it'll look like your slowest plotting company to start with. But in the long run, to your point, these things are the ones that can actually go, you know, hit the J curve pretty quickly.”
Oct 27, 2023 positive
Sim: Superhuman founder locked $10M Series A in separate bank account untouched
“Then he raised pre raised a ten million dollar A round. He put it in a separate bank account and said, I'm not going to touch this thing. I'm literally just going to put it there. I don't want to see it. It's in a separate bank account. I'm only going to opera…”
Oct 27, 2023
Oct 27, 2023 neutral
Ed Sim: Boldstart will split $8M–$10M seed rounds for exceptional founders
“The way that we've evolved now is that sometimes I have to play ball, Harry, right? Sometimes there are some exceptional founders where, okay, you know what? I will split. An eight to ten million dollar round for that exceptional founder, depending on what tha…”
Oct 27, 2023 positive
Sim: Optimal Modern Seed Venture Funds Must Be $150M to $250M
“I think a fund size between one 52 50 for doing this in a highly concentrated position with ownership and doing it in a way that allows you to write bigger checks after the discovery round to help a classic round, you know, raise a little more of an extension …”
Oct 27, 2023
Oct 27, 2023 bearish
Oct 27, 2023 positive
Sim: Boldstart pushes down seed round sizes to test founders
“I'll lead you around now if you want three, but not at six. So they come back to us, you know, a few days later and like, you know what? How about four? And the reason I do that Harry is because I want to test them. I want to test them to make sure that they a…”
Oct 27, 2023 neutral
Oct 27, 2023 bullish
Ed Sim: Top Infrastructure Startups Still Raising Growth Rounds at $250M-$400M Valuations
“There's still pockets Of opportunity where people are going from one to three to four million in the infrastructure space that I see to 10 to 12 kind of on the forecast and they're still raising at two 50 to 400 now.”
Jan 10, 2024
Jan 10, 2024 positive
Sim: Boldstart's fastest-growing 2021 vintage startups are Israeli infrastructure companies
“We have over a dozen Israeli founding teams right now, and two of my fastest growing companies in fund five vintage 20, 21, which had, you know, funded inception to now from zero to about two million of ARR were both Israeli infrastructure companies.”