Ed Sim

Greater New York City Area United States

boldstart ventures

Ed is founder of boldstart ventures, an enterprise seed fund which has invested in over 50 startups in infrastructure and SaaS. He loves to work with engineering driven founders with a laser sharp focus on product. Current investment focus includes Googlization of IT (enterprise move to cloud native), Smart Data (applied AI), security, and SaaS. Over 20 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 ma...