Ed Sim is the founder of boldstart ventures, a true believer and partner from Inception for developer first, enterprise infrastructure, and SaaS founders. He loves working with engineering-driven founders with bold ideas and laser-sharp focus on product well before writing their first lines of code.

Ed has been in the trenches with Snyk, Blockdaemon, Kustomer (sold to Meta), BigID, Superhuman, Security Scorecard, Front and so many more from day one. Other notables where Ed is actively involved on the board as director or observer include Protect AI, Env0 and Spectro Cloud. Ed also co-founded MState in 2017, an enterprise blockchain lab in partnership with IBM, where seed investments include Fireblocks and Amberdata. He is a true partner 💪 from Inception – helping bold founders start, scale, exit 🚀 and have fun along the way.

Prior to boldstart, Ed was a co-founder of Dawntreader Ventures where he led day one investments in Greenplum (sold to EMC, Pivotal – IPO), GoToMeeting (sold to Citrix), and LivePerson (IPO). Previous to that, he worked at JP Morgan where he learned how to code and build quantiative trading models. Ed’s first job while in college was learning the art of true sales as a representative for Cutco Knives where he sold many a Homemaker + 8. Ed graduated from Harvard College and was a four-year letterman on the men’s lacrosse team.