Investors / United States / Boldstart Ventures
Boldstart Ventures
Venture capital · Miami, FL, United States · North America
Boldstart Ventures is a venture capital firm that writes first checks to technical founders, typically at inception before a company exists. It offers initial checks ranging from $500K to $15M and works with founders from the idea stage.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
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Or find every investor that fitsBoldstart Ventures lists 29 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 14 funding rounds, 2 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 36% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (42%), Cybersecurity (27%) and Enterprise Software (19%). 88% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Evolution Equity Partners, Insight Partners and Accel.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Boldstart Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Boldstart Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 14 companies; its own site lists 29. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 7% |
| Seed | 36% |
| Series A | 21% |
| Series B | 21% |
| Growth | 14% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 1 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 1 | 1 |
| '23 | 1 | 0 |
| '24 | 1 | 0 |
| '25 | 6 | 0 |
| '26 | 4 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 66th | 29 companies |
| Recent activity | 82th | 4 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 67th | 43% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 98th | 34% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 76th | 42% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 42% | 18% |
| Cybersecurity | 27% | 4% |
| Enterprise Software | 19% | 8% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 4% | 7% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 2% | 3% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 2% | 1% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 2% | 15% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 2% | 6% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Evolution Equity Partners | 4 |
| Insight Partners | 4 |
| Accel | 3 |
| Acrew Capital | 3 |
| BoxGroup | 3 |
| Mantis Venture Capital | 3 |
| Salesforce Ventures | 3 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers2897%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company13%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Evolution Equity Partners
Compare Boldstart Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Boldstart Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 29 Jun 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 4 Jun 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 17 Mar 2026 | Series A | |
| 10 Feb 2026 | Series B | |
| 12 Nov 2025 | Seed | |
| 12 Nov 2025 | Series B | |
| 11 Nov 2025 | Seed | |
| 21 Oct 2025 | Series A |
Round details for Boldstart Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Boldstart Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
29 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company provides AI-powered solutions for construction teams to bid and estimate jobs with greater accuracy | AI & Machine LearningReal Estate & Construction | Nov 2025Series B | Funding round | |
| Baz provides an AI code review platform that reviews plans, pull requests, security, and merge readiness with AI agents | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Jun 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Clay provides a platform to build systems for growing revenue by centralizing data sources and tracking signals and intent. | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Aug 2025Series C+ | Page + round | |
| Crew provides a platform for building and managing enterprise agents to automate work | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Gain Security provides cloud network security using AI-native cloud network segmentation. | Cybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Generalist is a company that builds general intelligence for the physical world by training robots | AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | Jun 2026Series C+ | Page + round | |
| Grepr develops an AI-powered platform to separate signal from noise in telemetry data and enable proactive, autonomous agents for observability and incident management. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Jan 2023Seed | Page + round | |
| Humanix detects and responds to social engineering attacks on people with its conversational AI technology. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Nov 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Joon provides an AI-managed cybersecurity solution | Cybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Keycard provides runtime authentication for agents, giving each agent its own identity, authority to act, and access to resources under a defined policy. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Oct 2025Series A | Page + round | |
| Kustomer provides a customer service platform that uses AI to manage customer interactions | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Aug 2025Series B | Funding round | |
| Lava connects to a company's entire stack and builds an end-to-end context graph to reduce risk and protect AI compute in data centers and neoclouds. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Octavia uses advanced geophysics and proprietary AI models to discover new mineral deposits, analyze expansion potential, or create a drilling program | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company secures entire AI ecosystems from one comprehensive platform. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a security platform to monitor, secure, and govern AI agents and their connections. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Feb 2026Series B | Page + round | |
CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | |||
| SecurityScorecard provides a platform for managing third-party and supply chain risk | CybersecurityEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Snyk provides security solutions for code, applications, and artificial intelligence | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2019Series A | Page + round | |
| Spectro Cloud provides an AI infrastructure management platform to design, deploy and manage AI and cloud-native infrastructure | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 12 Nov 2026- Site
- boldstart.vc
- Last read
- 12 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 9 Sept 2019
- Companies checked
- 29
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