Ellen Chisa

Liveblocks provides developers with a complete toolkit to embed collaborative experiences into any product in just days.

We want to unlock the world’s data by building the global data graph. By making the global data graph a reality, Stellate unlocks the compounding effects of innovation by removing the inefficiencies of connecting poorly structured and documented APIs. The recaptured development time alone is significant — less time spent on busy work allows for more time spent on innovation and value creation.

boldstart venturesm your partner from Inception and true believer for developer first, enterprise infra, and SaaS founders. Before you build your team, before you write your first line of code, before you even take your first check—that’s when boldstart gets to work. We collaborate with technical founders well before company creation, lead pre-product rounds at inception, and rally our developer-first and SaaS network to help turn bold ideas into category-creating iconic companies. We’ve been in the trenches with Snyk, Kustomer, BigID, Superhuman (and so many more) from day one. See more about us and our full portfolio @ www.boldstart.vc and @boldstartvc

Liveblocks provides developers with a complete toolkit to embed collaborative experiences into any product in just days.

We want to unlock the world’s data by building the global data graph. By making the global data graph a reality, Stellate unlocks the compounding effects of innovation by removing the inefficiencies of connecting poorly structured and documented APIs. The recaptured development time alone is significant — less time spent on busy work allows for more time spent on innovation and value creation.

We want to make it possible to build a complete scalable app in an afternoon. We’ll make it 100x easier to build applications and bring the ability to write software to a billion people. Were starting by making it easy to build a backend. Today, the complexity of building distributed applications far exceeds the complexity of an app’s design. This unnecessary “accidental complexity” takes up the vast majority of application development time and limits who can make software. Modern architectures make even simple applications hard. We make API calls using REST and HTTP/AJAX, but we also need queues, authentication, transactions, retry logic, error handling, and rate limiting. We have to choose infrastructure – Docker and CoreOS and Kubernetes and more (after all, It’s The Future). We need to deploy: check your code into git, run your tests, and integrate your continuous delivery tool, all before enabling your code with a feature flag. All this complexity is a tax on software development. 2009’s startups had easy monoliths built on top of mature open-source software and simple cloud hosting. By contrast, today’s startups rely on microservices and third-party APIs and services, brittly held together with string. A project that should take an hour actually takes weeks, because we spend all the time writing the same low-level distributed systems code again and again – and that’s before maintenance, operations, monitoring, security, etc. All that time spent on solving accidental complexity is time that can’t be spent on making delightful products for your users, and solving important business problems.

Seed-stage venture capital firm based in Boston and New York City investing in ambitious founders leveraging the power of AI. With over $1 billion under management across six seed funds and seven pre-seed funds, portfolio companies include BetterCloud, BitSight, Bowery, Chief, Codecademy (acq: SKILL), FalconX, Firebase (acq: GOOG), Infracommerce (BVMF: IFCM3), MadeiraMadeira, MongoDB (NASDAQ: MDB), Open English, Plastiq, and Splice.