BOLDstart Ventures

Founded in 2010, BOLDstart Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Miami, Florida. It focuses on investing in early-stage technology companies, particularly those working on enterprise infrastructure and SaaS. The firm often partners with technical founders from the inception stage, providing lead investment and support to help them achieve product-market fit.

Ernest Addison

Associate

Ellen Chisa

Partner

Anna Debenham

Operating Partner

Shomik Ghosh

Partner

Stan Kreydin

Partner

Matthew Nordby

Partner

Ed Sim

Founder and Managing Partner

Past deals in Developer Tools

Zuplo

Seed Round in 2023
Zuplo is a company that specializes in providing programmable API management solutions for developers. It offers a fully managed, serverless, edge gateway that natively supports OpenAPI, making it a simpler and more effective alternative to other API management tools like Apigee and Kong. Zuplo's platform includes features such as a programmable gateway, API key management, one-click deployment, and smart routing between backends. These capabilities enable developers to create software using familiar tools, easily troubleshoot issues by diving into the code, and deploy their applications without the hassle of managing infrastructure.

Roadie

Seed Round in 2023
Roadie is a hosted developer portal and service catalog built on Spotify's backstage that aids in the scaling of growing engineering teams.

Superstream

Seed Round in 2023
Superstream is a developer of a cloud-native event processing platform that serves as a modern alternative to traditional message brokers. The platform is designed to support the development of queue-based applications that handle large volumes of streamed and enriched data. It provides a comprehensive ecosystem aimed at enhancing the productivity of data-oriented developers and engineers through rapid development, modularity, and effective schema management. Key features include improved observability to minimize troubleshooting time, high performance coupled with efficient resource consumption, and robust stability, ensuring high availability of queues and brokers essential for modern applications. Overall, Superstream focuses on delivering a cost-effective solution that significantly reduces development time and operational complexities.

env0

Series A in 2023
env0 is a developer of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) management software based in Giv'atayim, Israel. The company provides a cloud management platform that enables businesses to efficiently manage their cloud infrastructure through environment provisioning, governance, and workflow tools. Designed to empower various teams, including developers, site reliability engineers, and data scientists, env0 facilitates the transition of complex workloads into manageable cloud environments. Its platform supports self-service capabilities while ensuring comprehensive governance and cost control across major cloud service providers such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Additionally, env0 offers customized environments for specialized tasks and facilitates end-to-end testing for each pull request, ultimately enhancing productivity and reducing operational costs.

Dylibso

Seed Round in 2023
Dylibso is a software company founded in 2022 and based in Boulder, Colorado, specializing in tools and applications for the deployment of WebAssembly. The company offers a comprehensive suite of developer tools that facilitate code signing and verification, module delivery, and runtime debugging. By focusing on secure and isolated execution, Dylibso enhances the performance and resource control of WebAssembly applications. Its innovative approach aims to simplify the coding process for developers, enabling them to efficiently manage observability and performance in their projects.

Ethos

Seed Round in 2023
Ethos is a platform that serves as a wallet and hub for decentralized applications (dApps), non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and various user experiences. It provides a React library equipped with hooks that enable developers to interact seamlessly with blockchain technology and digital wallets. By offering a range of utility functions, Ethos aims to simplify the development process and help create the essential components needed for a robust dApp experience. The company is focused on empowering both developers and users by making the capabilities of the decentralized web more accessible.

AtomicJar

Series A in 2023
AtomicJar is an integration testing platform founded on March 2, 2021, in Newark, New Jersey, by Sergei Egorov. The company focuses on creating developer tools that simplify automated testing processes. By utilizing containers, AtomicJar enables developers to effectively conduct unit and domain testing, addressing the complexities associated with various dependencies in production environments. The platform aims to enhance the software development cycle by providing easier methods for integration testing, ultimately improving the overall experience for developers.

Dylibso

Seed Round in 2022
Dylibso is a software company founded in 2022 and based in Boulder, Colorado, specializing in tools and applications for the deployment of WebAssembly. The company offers a comprehensive suite of developer tools that facilitate code signing and verification, module delivery, and runtime debugging. By focusing on secure and isolated execution, Dylibso enhances the performance and resource control of WebAssembly applications. Its innovative approach aims to simplify the coding process for developers, enabling them to efficiently manage observability and performance in their projects.

CloudQuery

Series A in 2022
CloudQuery provides an open-source cloud asset inventory platform powered by SQL, delivering visibility across multi-cloud environments for security, compliance, and cost management. The platform enables unified tracking and querying of cloud resources, real-time identification of resource ownership and changes, scalable enforcement of security policies, detection of unused assets to reduce cloud waste, and zero-ETL data pipelines for seamless integration with data warehouses. This supports governance, optimized cloud spending, and compliance across complex cloud infrastructures.

Stellate

Seed Round in 2022
Stellate provides a cloud-based platform to optimize GraphQL APIs by combining edge caching, real-time analytics, and security features. The service caches and serves queries at the edge to reduce origin traffic, handle traffic spikes, and prevent downtime, while offering rate limiting and protection against malicious queries. The platform monitors usage and performance with real-time metrics and streamlines client requests by routing queries and cached responses, enabling faster, more reliable operation and cost savings through reduced load on origin services.

Liveblocks

Seed Round in 2022
Liveblocks operates an API platform that enables real-time, collaborative experiences within software applications. It provides live presence features, such as avatars that show when a user joins a page, project, or document, and real-time sharing of cursor position, text selection, and content selection. The solution offers customizable pre-built components that allow developers to add multiplayer and AI-ready capabilities without derailing roadmaps, helping teams build collaborative products and keep participants focused on the core product.

Root

Series A in 2022
Root is a developer of a container lifecycle management platform aimed at simplifying the creation, building, deployment, and operation of cloud-native applications for developers. The platform enhances efficiency by optimizing the composition and construction of containerized applications, thereby reducing friction, complexity, and waste. It utilizes a combination of run-time and static container analysis to evaluate containers, eliminating unnecessary files, executables, and packages based on observed run-time behavior. This enables clients to build and manage applications more effectively, allowing developers to focus on writing high-quality code while maintaining speed and efficiency in their workflows. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Boxborough, Massachusetts, Root aims to empower developers to manage their applications with minimal overhead and reduced DevOps burden.

Blockdaemon

Series C in 2022
Blockdaemon facilitates blockchain deployment by offering a node management platform that supports over 30 protocols. It empowers businesses and developers to quickly launch and manage blockchain applications, with tools for exchanges, custodians, and financial institutions.

CodeSee

Seed Round in 2022
CodeSee is a developer of cloud-based data visualization software aimed at enhancing code comprehension for developers and development teams. Founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, California, the company provides tools that facilitate a continuous understanding of the codebase throughout the development process. Its software enables users to visualize how various elements of code and functionality are interconnected, thereby improving the overall workflow and efficiency of software development.

CloudQuery

Seed Round in 2021
CloudQuery provides an open-source cloud asset inventory platform powered by SQL, delivering visibility across multi-cloud environments for security, compliance, and cost management. The platform enables unified tracking and querying of cloud resources, real-time identification of resource ownership and changes, scalable enforcement of security policies, detection of unused assets to reduce cloud waste, and zero-ETL data pipelines for seamless integration with data warehouses. This supports governance, optimized cloud spending, and compliance across complex cloud infrastructures.

CodeSee

Seed Round in 2021
CodeSee is a developer of cloud-based data visualization software aimed at enhancing code comprehension for developers and development teams. Founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, California, the company provides tools that facilitate a continuous understanding of the codebase throughout the development process. Its software enables users to visualize how various elements of code and functionality are interconnected, thereby improving the overall workflow and efficiency of software development.

Liveblocks

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Liveblocks operates an API platform that enables real-time, collaborative experiences within software applications. It provides live presence features, such as avatars that show when a user joins a page, project, or document, and real-time sharing of cursor position, text selection, and content selection. The solution offers customizable pre-built components that allow developers to add multiplayer and AI-ready capabilities without derailing roadmaps, helping teams build collaborative products and keep participants focused on the core product.

AtomicJar

Seed Round in 2021
AtomicJar is an integration testing platform founded on March 2, 2021, in Newark, New Jersey, by Sergei Egorov. The company focuses on creating developer tools that simplify automated testing processes. By utilizing containers, AtomicJar enables developers to effectively conduct unit and domain testing, addressing the complexities associated with various dependencies in production environments. The platform aims to enhance the software development cycle by providing easier methods for integration testing, ultimately improving the overall experience for developers.

env0

Series A in 2021
env0 is a developer of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) management software based in Giv'atayim, Israel. The company provides a cloud management platform that enables businesses to efficiently manage their cloud infrastructure through environment provisioning, governance, and workflow tools. Designed to empower various teams, including developers, site reliability engineers, and data scientists, env0 facilitates the transition of complex workloads into manageable cloud environments. Its platform supports self-service capabilities while ensuring comprehensive governance and cost control across major cloud service providers such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Additionally, env0 offers customized environments for specialized tasks and facilitates end-to-end testing for each pull request, ultimately enhancing productivity and reducing operational costs.

Root

Seed Round in 2021
Root is a developer of a container lifecycle management platform aimed at simplifying the creation, building, deployment, and operation of cloud-native applications for developers. The platform enhances efficiency by optimizing the composition and construction of containerized applications, thereby reducing friction, complexity, and waste. It utilizes a combination of run-time and static container analysis to evaluate containers, eliminating unnecessary files, executables, and packages based on observed run-time behavior. This enables clients to build and manage applications more effectively, allowing developers to focus on writing high-quality code while maintaining speed and efficiency in their workflows. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Boxborough, Massachusetts, Root aims to empower developers to manage their applications with minimal overhead and reduced DevOps burden.

env0

Funding Round in 2020
env0 is a developer of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) management software based in Giv'atayim, Israel. The company provides a cloud management platform that enables businesses to efficiently manage their cloud infrastructure through environment provisioning, governance, and workflow tools. Designed to empower various teams, including developers, site reliability engineers, and data scientists, env0 facilitates the transition of complex workloads into manageable cloud environments. Its platform supports self-service capabilities while ensuring comprehensive governance and cost control across major cloud service providers such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Additionally, env0 offers customized environments for specialized tasks and facilitates end-to-end testing for each pull request, ultimately enhancing productivity and reducing operational costs.

Blockdaemon

Venture Round in 2020
Blockdaemon facilitates blockchain deployment by offering a node management platform that supports over 30 protocols. It empowers businesses and developers to quickly launch and manage blockchain applications, with tools for exchanges, custodians, and financial institutions.

env0

Seed Round in 2020
env0 is a developer of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) management software based in Giv'atayim, Israel. The company provides a cloud management platform that enables businesses to efficiently manage their cloud infrastructure through environment provisioning, governance, and workflow tools. Designed to empower various teams, including developers, site reliability engineers, and data scientists, env0 facilitates the transition of complex workloads into manageable cloud environments. Its platform supports self-service capabilities while ensuring comprehensive governance and cost control across major cloud service providers such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Additionally, env0 offers customized environments for specialized tasks and facilitates end-to-end testing for each pull request, ultimately enhancing productivity and reducing operational costs.

Cycle

Seed Round in 2019
Cycle is a flexible platform designed to adapt to unique product team workflows. It integrates customer feedback into product delivery processes, enabling teams to close the feedback loop with every release.

Blockdaemon

Seed Round in 2019
Blockdaemon facilitates blockchain deployment by offering a node management platform that supports over 30 protocols. It empowers businesses and developers to quickly launch and manage blockchain applications, with tools for exchanges, custodians, and financial institutions.

IOPipe

Seed Round in 2018
IOpipe is a serverless DevOps platform designed to enhance the development and operational efficiency of serverless applications. The company addresses the unique challenges that arise from the shift towards serverless computing by providing an open-source module that offers real-time telemetry, tracing, profiling, alerts, logs, and error monitoring. This functionality allows developers to gain insights into the performance and operations of their event-driven applications, particularly within Amazon Lambda functions. By adopting a customer-centric approach, IOpipe collaborates closely with its users to address their challenges effectively. The company emphasizes building a remote-first and diverse team that is dedicated to creating a leading product for serverless application development and operations.

Blockdaemon

Seed Round in 2018
Blockdaemon facilitates blockchain deployment by offering a node management platform that supports over 30 protocols. It empowers businesses and developers to quickly launch and manage blockchain applications, with tools for exchanges, custodians, and financial institutions.

Blockdaemon

Seed Round in 2017
Blockdaemon facilitates blockchain deployment by offering a node management platform that supports over 30 protocols. It empowers businesses and developers to quickly launch and manage blockchain applications, with tools for exchanges, custodians, and financial institutions.

Manifold.co

Series A in 2017
Manifold.co operates a cloud-based marketplace that simplifies the discovery, purchase, and management of developer services and tools for applications across various cloud environments. By addressing the complexities associated with micro-services and third-party infrastructure, Manifold enables clients to effectively configure and distribute their pricing plans from a central platform. The marketplace streamlines essential functions such as pricing, billing, identity management, and provisioning, thereby facilitating a more efficient application development and deployment process.

IOPipe

Seed Round in 2017
IOpipe is a serverless DevOps platform designed to enhance the development and operational efficiency of serverless applications. The company addresses the unique challenges that arise from the shift towards serverless computing by providing an open-source module that offers real-time telemetry, tracing, profiling, alerts, logs, and error monitoring. This functionality allows developers to gain insights into the performance and operations of their event-driven applications, particularly within Amazon Lambda functions. By adopting a customer-centric approach, IOpipe collaborates closely with its users to address their challenges effectively. The company emphasizes building a remote-first and diverse team that is dedicated to creating a leading product for serverless application development and operations.

Dark

Seed Round in 2017
Dark Inc. is a technology company founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California. The company specializes in developing a new programming language that is closely integrated with its own editor and compiler, as well as providing platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solutions. Dark's offerings enable engineers to build distributed applications using high-level programming primitives, streamlining the development process. By combining a holistic programming language with hosted infrastructure, Dark aims to simplify the complexities associated with application development and enhance the efficiency of software engineering.

Manifold.co

Seed Round in 2016
Manifold.co operates a cloud-based marketplace that simplifies the discovery, purchase, and management of developer services and tools for applications across various cloud environments. By addressing the complexities associated with micro-services and third-party infrastructure, Manifold enables clients to effectively configure and distribute their pricing plans from a central platform. The marketplace streamlines essential functions such as pricing, billing, identity management, and provisioning, thereby facilitating a more efficient application development and deployment process.

Yhat

Seed Round in 2015
Yhat (pronounced Y-hat) provides an end-to-end data science platform for developing, deploying, and managing real-time decision APIs. Yhat eliminates painful IT obstacles involved in cloud-based data science like server setup and config. With Yhat, data scientists can transform static insights into production-ready decision making APIs that integrate seamlessly with any customer- or employee-facing app. Yhat also created Rodeo, an open source integrated development environment (IDE) for Python. Yhat was founded in 2013 and is based in New York. The team is composed of entrepreneurs, data scientists, and engineers formerly at OnDeck, AppNexus, Guidespark, Shareablee and the Washington Post.

Bowery

Seed Round in 2014
Bowery Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2013 that specializes in providing a cloud-based automated development environment for web developers. The company focuses on simplifying the web development process by streamlining the setup and configuration of developers' tools, software, and applications. By automating time-intensive and repetitive tasks, Bowery enables programmers to quickly initiate their work without the burden of establishing complex coding environments. This innovative approach aims to enhance productivity and efficiency within development teams.

Yhat

Seed Round in 2013
Yhat (pronounced Y-hat) provides an end-to-end data science platform for developing, deploying, and managing real-time decision APIs. Yhat eliminates painful IT obstacles involved in cloud-based data science like server setup and config. With Yhat, data scientists can transform static insights into production-ready decision making APIs that integrate seamlessly with any customer- or employee-facing app. Yhat also created Rodeo, an open source integrated development environment (IDE) for Python. Yhat was founded in 2013 and is based in New York. The team is composed of entrepreneurs, data scientists, and engineers formerly at OnDeck, AppNexus, Guidespark, Shareablee and the Washington Post.
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