Ed Sim
- Investor at Front App
Bio
Ed is founder of boldstart ventures a first check investor for bold founders reinventing the enterprise stack. boldstart is a lead investor and partners with Fortune 500 CIOs CTOs CISOs to accelerate time to market. Ed loves to work with engineering driven founders with a laser sharp focus on product. Current investment focus includes Cloud Native Infrastructure Intelligent Automation cybersecurity and data infra. First Check Investor BoardObserver BigID Snyk FortressIQ Kustomer Security Scorecard Front Superhuman Catalytic Manifold Dropout Labs Hypr Blockdaemon Over 23 yrs has led many seed and first rounds and helped a number of entrepreneurs successfully scale from seed to market leader including big data pioneer Greenplum sold to EMC now Pivotal LivePerson Nasdaq LPSN GoToMeeting acq. by Citrix Divide sold to Google GoInstant sold to Salesforce.com Blaze.io sold to Akamai and many others. Founded BOLDstart Ventures co-founder of MState and Dawntreader Ventures. Active blogger since 2003 at beyondvc. Ed has a BA in Economics from Harvard.