Ed Sim

Founder of boldstart ventures, partnering with technical founders from Inception to build the autonomous world.

📍 New York, New York, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 32 investments📅 28 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2024𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
32
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Dec 2024
Keycard is on a mission to redefine machine identity for the Internet—helping developers seamlessly connect people, agents, and services across networks, clouds, and applications. As AI-driven workflows grow more complex, Keycard’s dynamic, identity-based credentials ensure every agent and service operates with precise, contextual permissions. We’re building a global identity network backed by open protocols—empowering distributed systems to adapt, scale, and maintain cryptographically verifiable trust. By rethinking secret management from first principles, we aim to delight developers, meet the performance needs of platform engineers, and set a new standard for cloud-era security in an inclusive, collaborative environment.
Investor/Board
Aug 2024
Every security team has a backlog of known issues: dormant accounts that should be disabled, expired certificates, employees with access they no longer need, overexposed data. Some of these are flagged by existing tools. Many are buried, and visible only when you connect context across systems that dont normally talk to each other. Either way, the team knows the types of problems are out there. What they cant do is find all of them, find the capacity to act on them, figure out who owns each one, understand what breaks if they change it, and actually fix it across different systems and different teams at the pace the backlog demands. Surf does all of that. We connect to your identity, cloud, HR, IT, data and security systems, continuously surface issues that no single tool can see and understand on its own, build a real-time map of who owns what and what depends on what, and then use AI agents to drive each fix to completion – with your team approving every step.
Investor/Board
Mar 2022
Prisma® AIRS is the world’s most comprehensive AI security platform. Its natively integrated and uses best-in-class security to secure the entire AI attack lifecycle for every AI app, agent, models and dataset your business uses or builds. It empowers organizations to deploy AI bravely knowing that whatever they build is secure.
Investor/Board Member
Aug 2020
ROI is driven by time savings, deal insights and better data quality. With Dooly: 1. Stop wasting your valuable time updating Salesforce. Take your meeting notes in Dooly. We’ll automatically push them back to the right fields, tasks, activities, and opportunities in Salesforce for you. Sound too good to be true? Well, it isn’t. 2. Update your deals with one-click. Keep your pipeline up-to-date with in-line edits to opportunity views. It’s time you understood what’s happening in every deal, 100% of the time. 3. Never stumble through objections again. Get relevant talking points and collateral delivered to you live during your sales calls based on the flow of the conversation. Sales coaching for the win!
Investor/Board
Sep 2019
env0 is an automation and management platform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools - Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, Pulumi, Kubernetes, Ansible, and more. Our platform provides tools for cross-team collaboration and self-service cloud deployments, supported by a custom policy engine that helps ensure governance, compliance, and cost-efficiency.
Investor/Board
Oct 2017
FortressIQ is the creator of a cognitive automation platform that powers and accelerates digital transformation through imitation learning. Using an innovative type of AI that combines computer vision, natural language and sequence modeling, FortressIQ learns how a business functions through live activity analysis. By radically lowering the cost, effort and time required to document business processes, enterprise organizations can use FortressIQ’s platform to quickly gain the insights necessary to improve business operations and implement automation. The FortressIQ platform automatically discovers, maps, and documents all the digital processes executed by an organization’s workforce. From web-based apps, to legacy systems, virtual desktops & green screens, we eliminate the need for APIs and access to event logs, requiring no configuration and zero integration, delivering a time to value in weeks. With AI-driven technology, the discovery method generates process documentation automatically, allowing customers to map processes in record time, and transparently providing the most holistic view of their current state digital operations. Founded in 2017, FortressIQ is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Boldstart Ventures, Comcast Ventures and Eniac Ventures. Learn more about FortressIQ: Website: https://www.fortressiq.com/​ Blog: https://www.fortressiq.com/blog/​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fortressiq YouTube: http://bit.ly/2Z12Eu8 Listen to our hello, Human Podcast Series: https://www.fortressiq.com/hello-human/​
Investor
Jul 2017
We are thrilled to announce that Wallaroo.AI is a finalist for the 2023 InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award (AI and Machine Learning Development)! We are excited to share weve been selected for the Microsoft for Startups Pegasus Program! We are excited to work closely with Microsoft to further scale our business and reach more customers worldwide. Learn more at startups.microsoft.com.
Board Member/Investor
Oct 2016
HYPR, the leader in passwordless identity assurance, delivers the industrys most comprehensive end-to-end identity security for your workforce and customers. By unifying phishing-resistant passwordless authentication, adaptive risk mitigation, and automated identity verification, HYPR ensures secure and seamless user experiences for everyone. Trusted by organizations worldwide, including two of the four largest US banks, leading manufacturers, and critical infrastructure companies, HYPR secures some of the most complex and demanding environments globally, showcasing our commitment to innovation and security excellence.
Investor
Sep 2016
Enabling serverless and event-driven applications with real-time monitoring and analytics as a service.
Investor/Board Member
Jun 2016
Manifold is on a mission to reduce the complexity of building and deploying applications with micro-services and third-party infrastructure services.
Investor, Board
Feb 2016
BigID Next connects the dots in Data & AI. Its the modern platform for data security, privacy, compliance, and governance: built cloud-native, AI-ready, and made for what’s next. With BigID, organizations can see and secure their entire data landscape across multicloud, hybrid, SaaS, and on-prem. Customers use BigID to reduce risk, automate security and privacy controls, stay ahead of compliance, and turn data into an advantage and AI risk into innovation - all in one platform.
Investor
Feb 2016
Catalytic is the no-code workflow automation platform for citizen developers to digitize business operations, making work faster and more efficient—without friction or heavy development. Combine hundreds of modular capabilities designed to coordinate tasks, connect with your existing systems, and let automation and AI complete the rest. It’s the only cloud platform created for citizen development, balanced with governance—and above all—with people in mind. The web-based interface is business-user friendly for instant setup, rapid building and agile changes. At the core is a self-managing, intelligent data layer driving it all forward for powerful processing, visibility and a low-maintenance, dynamic infrastructure. Companies ranging from global powerhouses like Bosch, Grant Thornton and UL, to nimble startups like Spikeball have embraced Catalytic to do more with less, while overcoming years-long obstacles and reinvesting in their workforce.
Investor/Board
Oct 2015
Snyk, the leader in secure AI software development, empowers organizations to build fast and stay secure by unleashing developer productivity and reducing business risk. The company’s AI Trust Platform seamlessly integrates into developer and security workflows to accelerate secure software delivery in the AI Era. Snyk delivers trusted, actionable insights and automated remediation, enabling modern organizations to innovate without limits. Snyk is redefining secure AI-driven software delivery for over 4,500 customers worldwide today. Snyk was named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Application Security Testing (AST) and in The Forrester Wave™: Software Composition Analysis (SCA) 2023, and has been recognized on the Forbes Cloud 100 2022 along with the 2023 CNBC Disruptor 50. For more information, visit https://snyk.io.
Investor, Board
Sep 2015
Kustomer helps businesses grow by delivering exceptional customer service via phone, email, chat, text, social, messaging and more. Kustomer enables fast, personalized, and efficient customer and agent experiences using complete customer visibility, seamless omnichannel conversations, intelligent automation and easy, no-code customization to adapt to change. See why growing brands use Kustomer to build the enduring customer relationships that drive better business results at http://ow.ly/UZ5X50HV0ov
Investor
Dec 2014
We help software vendors ship their apps to complex customer environments. Expand your market and reduce costs with one-line installs and updates to Kubernetes clusters anywhere.
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2024
Investor/Board
Dec 2024
Keycard is on a mission to redefine machine identity for the Internet—helping developers seamlessly connect people, agents, and services across networks, clouds, and applications. As AI-driven workflows grow more complex, Keycard’s dynamic, identity-based credentials ensure every agent and service operates with precise, contextual permissions. We’re building a global identity network backed by open protocols—empowering distributed systems to adapt, scale, and maintain cryptographically verifiable trust. By rethinking secret management from first principles, we aim to delight developers, meet the performance needs of platform engineers, and set a new standard for cloud-era security in an inclusive, collaborative environment.
Investor/Board
Aug 2024
Every security team has a backlog of known issues: dormant accounts that should be disabled, expired certificates, employees with access they no longer need, overexposed data. Some of these are flagged by existing tools. Many are buried, and visible only when you connect context across systems that dont normally talk to each other. Either way, the team knows the types of problems are out there. What they cant do is find all of them, find the capacity to act on them, figure out who owns each one, understand what breaks if they change it, and actually fix it across different systems and different teams at the pace the backlog demands. Surf does all of that. We connect to your identity, cloud, HR, IT, data and security systems, continuously surface issues that no single tool can see and understand on its own, build a real-time map of who owns what and what depends on what, and then use AI agents to drive each fix to completion – with your team approving every step.
2022
Investor/Board
Mar 2022
Prisma® AIRS is the world’s most comprehensive AI security platform. Its natively integrated and uses best-in-class security to secure the entire AI attack lifecycle for every AI app, agent, models and dataset your business uses or builds. It empowers organizations to deploy AI bravely knowing that whatever they build is secure.
2020
Investor/Board Member
Aug 2020
ROI is driven by time savings, deal insights and better data quality. With Dooly: 1. Stop wasting your valuable time updating Salesforce. Take your meeting notes in Dooly. We’ll automatically push them back to the right fields, tasks, activities, and opportunities in Salesforce for you. Sound too good to be true? Well, it isn’t. 2. Update your deals with one-click. Keep your pipeline up-to-date with in-line edits to opportunity views. It’s time you understood what’s happening in every deal, 100% of the time. 3. Never stumble through objections again. Get relevant talking points and collateral delivered to you live during your sales calls based on the flow of the conversation. Sales coaching for the win!
2019
Investor/Board
Sep 2019
env0 is an automation and management platform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools - Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, Pulumi, Kubernetes, Ansible, and more. Our platform provides tools for cross-team collaboration and self-service cloud deployments, supported by a custom policy engine that helps ensure governance, compliance, and cost-efficiency.
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