Ed is founder of boldstart ventures, a day one partner and true believer for enterprise infrastructure and SaaS founders. boldstart is a lead investor and often partners with technical founders at inception, helping accelerate their path to product market fit.
Ed is currently a board member/observer of Snyk, Kustomer, BigID, Harbr Data, Env0, and Cycle. Other notable day one investments include Superhuman, Security Scorecard, and Front. Ed previously co-founded Dawntreader Ventures where he led first round investments in LivePerson (NASDAQ: LPSN), GoToMeeting (acq. By Citrix), and Greenplum (acq. EMC/Pivotal). Ed has a BA in Economics from Harvard
Started with coding and automating my job at JP Morgan and been an early stage enterprise investor since 1996.
We only invest in technical enterprise founders, look for product driven founders on a mission to solve a burning problem they've experienced, then look at what is unique technical insight and wedge to start a business, and what is opportunity to grow from product to company to big market.
There is no one playbook and need to understanding the emotional aspect of a founder, need to know when to cheer, chill, or challenge to help founders build the best company they can.
Get me fired up about what you are building — and why you are building it — in the first couple minutes, and make sure to be clear and succinct. We meet lots of founders during the day, so bringing the energy, passion and crystal clear story separates you from the others.
We have a no jerks rule at boldstart and I value authenticity, honesty, and ethics and look for mission driven founders with same values.
The diversity of talent and thoughts, real enterprise infrastructure companies can be built and scaled here
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