Boldstart Ventures
SelectiveFiled to raiseNew York, NYLast fund filed May 2026
2 on a current fund
last 24 months
across filed funds
| Vehicle | Filed | Target | Sold to date | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boldstart Crow | May 2026 | $38M | $38M | 36 |
| Boldstart Ventures VII | September 2024 | $250M | $250M | 68 |
| Boldstart Opportunities III | November 2021 | $175M | $175M | 72 |
| Boldstart Ventures VI | November 2021 | $192M | $192M | 89 |
| Boldstart Osprey | August 2021 |
Amounts are Item 13 as filed: the target is the whole offering, and the amount sold is cumulative across amendments rather than a final close. The filing carries no per-investor amount, so a firm’s own cheque is not recoverable here.
2 partners are named across this firm’s filings, 2 of them on a fund it is deploying now.
| Partner | Activity | Categories | Board seats | Last 24mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ed Sim | Slowing | Cybersecurity, Developer tools & infrastructure, Crypto & web3 | 12 |
Classified sectors of Boldstart Ventures’s own portfolio companies, based on 15 with a verified or cited source.
| Firm | Shared boards | Companies |
|---|---|---|
| Ballistic Ventures | 1 | HyperNative |
| Bessemer Venture Partners | 1 | BigID |
| Clearsky Power Technology | 1 | BigID |
| Clearsky Security |
| $12M |
| $12M |
| 25 |
| Boldstart Opportunities IIFiled to raise in 2020, with no closing reported yet. | 2020 | $75M | $0 | 0 |
| Boldstart Ventures VFiled to raise in 2020, with no closing reported yet. | 2020 | $155M | $0 | 0 |
| Boldstart Opportunities I | June 2019 | $45M | $45M | 34 |
| Boldstart Ventures IV | September 2018 | $112M | $112M | 103 |
| Boldstart Ventures III | July 2015 | $47M | $47M | 52 |
| BOLDstart Ventures II | February 2013 | $17M | $17M | 46 |
| 1 |
| Eliot Durbin | Slowing | Developer tools & infrastructure, Consumer apps & internet, Sales & marketing tech | 4 | 1 |
Activity is filed board seats in the last 24 months: 4+ Active, 2–3 Selective, 1 Slowing, none Quiet. A firm's tier totals its partners, so an active firm may be four partners with one seat each. It undercounts partners who invest without taking a board seat, and filings lag a closing by weeks, so Quiet means the paperwork is quiet, not the person.
Not a filing value: this is Lev’s own classification of each company, one company one vote regardless of how many of Boldstart Ventures’s partners are named on its board, shown only when we found a specific, checkable source. Companies with no source read as unclassified and are left out of the shares above.
| 1 |
| BigID |
| Riverwood Capital | 1 | BigID |
| Riverwood Shoreline | 1 | BigID |
| Scale Venture Partners | 1 | BigID |
| SYN Ventures | 1 | BigID |
A shared board seat: a company where filings name a Boldstart Ventures partner and a partner at the other firm, both with a clean identity match. Not a claim either firm led or co-led the round, only that both are named on the same board.