boldstart ventures

partnering from Inception with bold technical founders building the autonomous enterprise, lead investor for pre-product founders @edsim @etdurbin @ellenchisa

[boldstart ventures @Boldstartvc]

Calling all technical founders who are bleeding F***ing early - let's build 🏗️

Reloaded with $250M Fund VII - inception only capital!

[Ed Sim @edsim]

🔥 up to announce @boldstartvc Fund VII

$250M to back bold technical founders building the autonomous enterprise.

From Inception. Before the world believes.

It always starts with an idea that feels insane… until it isn’t.

🎥👇🧵

[boldstart ventures @Boldstartvc]

@GeneralistAI 🦾

[Bloomberg @business]

Robotics startup Generalist AI has raised $400 million in a new funding round https://t.co/f0Gs1rraow

[boldstart ventures @Boldstartvc]

@wallstengine amazing what the team has accomplished in a little over 2 years - read more from our @ellenchisa on what we saw when we partnered with the team at inception to get an idea of the leaps in progress https://t.co/1tZC2lZaim

[Ed Sim @edsim]

fun to see the post from Partner @ellenchisa laying out why we @Boldstartvc partnered with this team and vision at inception

https://t.co/ShAZDyCeXj

[Ed Sim @edsim]

huge congrats to the @GeneralistAI team on its $400M raise to build the frontier lab for robot intelligence

the autonomous enterprise is coming for the physical world faster than you can imagine

Amazing what @peteflorence, @andyzengineer, Andrew Barry and team have accomplished in a little over 2 years

we @Boldstartvc are thrilled to continue investing in this new round following our initial inception lead over 2 years ago

[Ellen Chisa @ellenchisa]

Happy to keep supporting the team with @Boldstartvc and excited for even more cool new employee demos like the liquid pouring one @kylieyying shared last week: https://t.co/tIDlXLX7K3 (more videos in playlist).

[Ed Sim @edsim]

reiterating:

"We're using the more expensive models to explore. Once we scale some of these experiences, we'll look to bring in more efficient models that are more efficient on a token basis or are open source."

wrote more about this here last week: https://t.co/QAJOsYkBiK

[Ed Sim @edsim]

What’s 🔥 issue #500 🤯

Honestly hard to believe.

What started as notes to myself shared with a few friends somehow turned into 500 straight weeks of writing and reflecting on enterprise tech, cybersecurity, AI, infrastructure, and venture. That's over 9 1/2 years!

🙏🏼 to everyone who reads, shares, replies, and keeps me learning every week.

This issue: why enterprise AI is entering “Phase 2” as the subsidy era ends and enterprises shift toward ROI and outcomes.

Still very early 🔥

full post next...

[boldstart ventures @Boldstartvc]

continous targeted pen testing is here from @snyksec

[Snyk @snyksec]

Today, we're excited to unveil Continuous Offensive Security, the newest product in the Evo by Snyk ecosystem. It brings AI-native pentesting to the enterprise.

The full walkthrough is in the video below.

Get all the details here: https://t.co/BsqN26qMYZ

[boldstart ventures @Boldstartvc]

congrats @edsim on reaching a huge milestone, issue #500!

[Ed Sim @edsim]

What’s 🔥 issue #500 🤯

Honestly hard to believe.

What started as notes to myself shared with a few friends somehow turned into 500 straight weeks of writing and reflecting on enterprise tech, cybersecurity, AI, infrastructure, and venture. That's over 9 1/2 years!

🙏🏼 to everyone who reads, shares, replies, and keeps me learning every week.

This issue: why enterprise AI is entering “Phase 2” as the subsidy era ends and enterprises shift toward ROI and outcomes.

Still very early 🔥

full post next...

[The #MiamiTech Pod @MiamiTechPod]

What's the biggest fundraising mistake founders make?  👀

Top seed investor @edsim breaks down what first time founders often get wrong when raising capital, and what they should focus on instead.

🎙️ Full episode out now - https://t.co/cg4TlTiBb8

@Boldstartvc @MariaDerchi

[Ed Sim @edsim]

agreed - overblown but...

reality is we're entering the next phase where enterprises fully aware of costs as vendors charge more for consumption and subsidy era is over

We'll see much more in way of intelligent routing to models, more investment in open source for hybrid workflows - SOTA as brain, offload to OS where makes sense, and how to measure what success is

still early and more to build

[Generalist @GeneralistAI]

Gen-1 pours Kool-Aid

Read more about GEN-1 in our blog post in the comments below ↓

[Ed Sim @edsim]

Enjoyed my conversation with @MariaDerchi on the @MiamiTechPod

Talked about what we look for in founders, our 5 Ps for inception investing, AI investing and building, why everyone doesn't need to chase VC 💰, and why it's early but promising in Miami and parallels to NYC tech ecosystem back in the day (mid-90s 😁)

Listen in!

[The #MiamiTech Pod @MiamiTechPod]

What makes someone fundable?

Top seed investor @edsim of @Boldstartvc breaks it down.

Including:
→ why most founders shouldn’t raise VC
→ founder green and red flags
→ what AI changes about startup building
→ why Miami is just getting started

🎧 New Episode: https://t.co/wPkqbXPUv4

[Quotient AI @Quotient_AI_]

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[boldstart ventures @Boldstartvc]

full list here: https://t.co/8GTRpeGJ1r

[boldstart ventures @Boldstartvc]

Congrats @edsim on being named to @BusinessInsider Seed 100, its annual ranking of the top early-stage investors in the US.

This is Ed’s 6th year in a row, landing at #4.

A reflection of the incredible technical founders @Boldstartvc is fortunate to partner with at inception.

And yes, his bot Chewbarka does a lot of the heavy lifting 🤖

[Ed Sim @edsim]

Saturday in Miami with @naksec cofounder of @recolabs_ai on 🔥

Agent discovery wiz like dashboard and kill switch LFG

Amazing how many folks have no idea how many agents are running amok in the enterprise with zero visibility

[Ed Sim @edsim]

new What's 🔥 in Enterprise IT/VC #498

Enterprise AI’s Easy Button: Fast Adoption, Future Lock-In, the startup opportunity?

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