Congrats Ed Sim! Clearly a testament to the amazing founders in the boldstart ventures portfolio representing the latest in developer tooling, cybersecurity, and infrastructure software!

Hot off the press: “What's 🔥 in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #420" Why we boldstart ventures wrote our largest initial Inception check of $12.5M in Tessl and Guy Podjarny to build AI Native Software Development - what this means for Inception/seed fund sizing? Link to full post in comments

I want to dedicate a thank you to my great Seed investors, even while the bigger Series A number dominates the headlines. Ed Sim and I partner on many ventures, with me as co-investor or founder. He always thinks big and founder-first, ALWAYS hustles for his companies, and embedded that at the core of boldstart's excellent team. Tom Hulme and I met when he invested in Snyk, and now I'm proud to call him a close friend. He has the best analytical mind I know, coupled with an admirable humility and drive to help others. Both are great investors and even greater people, who make me and Tessl better. Beyond the Seed's leads, I’m proud to have many top tier founders and excellent individuals on the cap table, whose advice and support I cherish. I won’t start naming them, as some are private about their investments, but still wanted to acknowledge them and say thanks! Lastly, I want to call out two more investors - firstminute capital and Darkmode Ventures. Both put in small cheques in the seed round, and in a few short months provided outsized value. That made it a no brainer to offer them to double down on the Series A, and I’m happy they both did! As I mentioned below, we’re on a long journey with big ambitions. Having the right partners to support you and keep you accountable is critical - I couldn’t have asked for a better group of investors to share it with. https://lnkd.in/egGdRcpw

🔥 to partner with Guy Podjarny for a 3rd time as Tessl launches to reimagine software development for the AI era You write the specs, AI codes +maintains Announced $125M total funding including a $25M Inception Round led by boldstart ventures along with our friends GV (Google Ventures) and a Series A led by Index Ventures and including Accel along with prior Inception investors boldstart + GV Read more on why we invested and wrote our biggest Inception check of $12.5M as the new era of AI Native Software development begins 🙏🏼 for the opportunity to join the journey again Post in comments below:

Where is boldstart ventures investing in the AI stack? Listen in as it's been shifting over the last few years from super heavy enterprise infra to more balanced with app layer Thanks for having me on Brent Leary!

Shift ⬅️ security for open source models built in and enhancing an already strong security framework from Hugging Face! Integrations, ease of use, and security is just magic 🪄! Thank you Hugging Face for making the open source AI world more secure and to boldstart ventures portfolio co Protect AI!

David Blumberg and Ed Sim, founder of boldstart ventures, sat down with CTech by Calcalist to discuss Miami’s position as a growing innovation hub and why it is a unique place for startups - including Israeli founders - and investors. Blumberg Capital portfolio companies and founders based in Florida include Imagene, Theator, Creednz, FirmPilot, Prescient AI , Mytaverse , FlowFi, and Deep Instinct, among others. David Blumberg explains that “the Blumberg Capital team expanded to Miami in 2020 after decades of investing from San Francisco, Israel and New York. The state of Florida is growing as an innovation hub attracting some of the best and brightest from finance, investments and tech to an attractive and flourishing environment.” Check out the full interview from Elihay Vidal below.

Thanks for having me Brent! We at boldstart ventures are more excited than ever about what's next with agentic workflows and the opportunity to reimagine how work gets done in the future. No one knows who's going to win - AI native, incumbents, 7 year old private startups but regardless this is where the fun comes in - the opportunity to compete and shape the future as the prize is bigger than ever!

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Fun to be part of building something new here in Miami 🌴! And yes, always trying to bring more Israeli 🇮🇱 founders here. More and more enterprise tech founders quietly moving, burgeoning cybersecurity community, one of 4 cities with direct flights from US to Israel, easy access to NYC and west coast, easier to manage time zone change, great weather, and capital allocators all here. What's been most interesting aspect is the "random walk" idea of connectivity. There are so many conferences, offsites, sales kickoffs, management meetings that you never know who's in town week to week and that variability keeps it quite interesting and one connected. So much more to do - come check it out and join us!