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How Do All Providers Deal with Anthropic Dependency Risk & Figma IPO Breakdown: Where Does it Price? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 24, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:06 Jason Lemkin You know, the bold start vibe, you know, there's a point to what he's saying, to their saying.

Ed Sim & Jamin Ball: Did Figma Kill M&A Markets & 3 Requirements to IPO in 2024 | E1101 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 10, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:06 Harry Stebbings This is Ed Sim, founder of Bold Start Ventures, and this is Jarmin Ball, partner at Altimeter.
  • ▶ 2:25 Ed Sim I, I'm the founder of Bold Start Ventures, uh, started that in 2010, um, and our idea is to be the, uh, inception stage partner for founders.

Ed Sim: Why Seed Has Never Been More Competitive & Why Pricing Has Never Been Higher | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 27, 2023 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 1:12 Harry Stebbings People that don't know you and Bold Start.
  • ▶ 18:32 Ed Sim And bold start one.
  • ▶ 18:58 Harry Stebbings I, I get you, I'm, so many ways I want to take this, but like, I chat to Jason Lamkin a lot, he's a good buddy of mine, and he's like, yeah, but I don't know if enterprise SaaS actually, like, is investable really anymore, and his…
  • ▶ 21:20 Ed Sim Um, you will never find both start, for example, finding companies where, you know, they're raising 20 or thirty million dollars, and two thirds of that money goes to NVIDIA.
  • ▶ 48:36 Harry Stebbings If we project it out, where do you want bold stock to be in 10 years, Ed? 3 times in the scene

Adam Besnivick: How to Invest in Pre-Seed & Seed Stage Companies; Looking Glass Capital | E1020 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 29, 2023 · 1 mention

Guy Podjarney: $7.4B Startup Founder; How to Analyse Market Size; Good vs Great Messaging | E1018 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 24, 2023 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 33:14 Guy Podjarny I think for us, if it wasn't for Ed Sim and Bold Start and, you know, sort of like him and Elliot being believers, 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:08:52 Guy Podjarny I mean, the, the name that comes to mind is Amit Patel, uh, who is an angel investor who joined us in that sort of round in which, like, everybody was looking at it and sort of saying, you know, thanks, but no thanks on it, you know, and… 2 times in the scene

Mike Chalfen: How to Build Anti-Fragile Venture Portfolios Today | 20VC #904 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 8, 2022 · 1 mention

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 Jun 26, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:15 Harry Stebbings As I said, a very unique firm making both direct investments and fund investments, and they've invested in the likes of Precursor, Bold Start, Female Founders Fund, and Workbench on the fund side, and then Play VS, Replicated, and Starseat…
  • ▶ 26:41 Lo Toney Equal Ventures, Workbench, Bold Start, the list just goes on and on, and the ability to be able to have GPs that are building world-class franchises, well-respected and known in the entrepreneurial and venture community, looking at a bunch…

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 Apr 24, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings To date, Rahul has raised over fifty-four million dollars with Superhuman from some of the best in the business, including Andreessen Horace, First Round, Box Group, and then two of my favorites in Jeff Morris Jr. at Chapter One, and Eden…

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 Nov 4, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:48 Harry Stebbings Included in their stellar fund portfolio is the likes of Index, Initialize, True Ventures, Andreessen, and some of my favorites in Ed and Elliot at Boldstart, just to name a

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 May 24, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings To date, Mathilde's raised over seventy-nine million dollars in VC funding with Front from some of the best in the business, including Brian Schreier at Sequoia, Initialized, Uncork, Bold Start, and individuals including Andrew Chen, Elad…

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 Feb 22, 2019 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings To date, they've raised from friends at Boldstart, Wayne Chang, Mike Gaffrey, and YesVC, just to name a few. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:58 Harry Stebbings Rahul, it is such a pleasure to have you on the show today, having heard so many great things from Wayne Chang, from Ed and Elliot at Bold Start to David Cancel.
  • ▶ 6:22 Rahul Vohra And, uh, actually our good friends, Ed and Elliot over at Boltstart, you mentioned them earlier in the show, they wrote the first check into Superhuman. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 31:22 Rahul Vohra We have an incredible pre-seed investor, Bold Starts,
  • ▶ 32:13 Harry Stebbings And it was one actually that is not on schedule, but one that I spoke to the bold stock guys about.
  • ▶ 39:19 Harry Stebbings I want to say a huge thank you to Ed and Elliot at Bold Start, and I cannot wait for the very exciting years ahead with Superhuman.

20VC FF: Hiten Shah on VC Funded vs Bootstrapped Businesses and How He Decides Which Startups To Advise Mar 4, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:58 Harry Stebbings Yeah, I just actually interviewed Ed Sim from Bold Start, uh, and he was fascinating on, on the kind of enterprise, uh, seed funding, and saying exactly the same, how there's a massive underfunding.

20 VC: Running Lerer Hippeau Ventures Like A Startup with Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner @ Lerer Hippeau Ventures Dec 21, 2015 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:50 Harry Stebbings Seed investors from New York on the show with, uh, Brooklyn Bridge and FF and, uh, Ed Sim at Bold Start.

20 VC 093: Where Is The Micro VC Market Going with Samir Kaji @ First Republic Bank Dec 2, 2015 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:03 Harry Stebbings I am your host, Harry Stebbings, and following on from our deep dive into the early stage SaaS funding environment with Ed Sim from Bold Start on Monday, today we will have an overview of the micro VC industry, look at what's driving the…
  • ▶ 20:58 Harry Stebbings I interviewed, uh, Ed Sim the other day at Bold Start Ventures, and he, he's a specialist kind of seed micro VC investor in SaaS companies, which is obviously exactly what we were saying, Verta,

20 VC 092: The Repeatable Playbook of SaaS with Ed Sim, Founding Partner @ BoldStart Ventures Nov 30, 2015 · 6 mentions

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