Boldstart Ventures

Boldstart Ventures, established in 2010, is a Miami-based venture capital firm that partners with bold founders from the inception of their enterprise software and infrastructure ideas. They typically invest between $200,000 to $500,000 in seed and Series A rounds, focusing on developer-first, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, and SaaS sectors. Known for being the first investor in companies like Snyk, BigID, and Kustomer, Boldstart works closely with technical founders before product development, helping accelerate their path to product-market fit. The firm, led by founding partner Ed Sim, has a 24-year track record of investing in early-stage technology companies.

Ernest Addison

Senior Associate

Ellen Chisa

Partner

Anna Debenham

Operating Partner

Eliot Durbin

General Partner

Past deals in PaaS

Spectro Cloud

Series C in 2024
Spectro Cloud, Inc. is a technology firm based in Santa Clara, California, specializing in Kubernetes management solutions. Established in 2019, the company offers the Palette platform, which simplifies the deployment and management of Kubernetes environments across diverse infrastructures, including public clouds, private clouds, data centers, and bare metal. Palette enables Platform Engineering, IT Operations, and DevOps teams to efficiently manage the entire Kubernetes lifecycle while ensuring compliance, security, and operational health. The platform supports both virtual machine and container workloads, providing tailored Kubernetes stacks that cater to specific organizational needs. Spectro Cloud has received recognition as a Gartner Cool Vendor and a CRN Tech Innovator, and is acknowledged as a leader in GigaOm’s 2024 Radars for Edge Kubernetes and Managed Kubernetes.

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.

env0

Series A in 2023
env0 is a developer of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) management software based in Giv'atayim, Israel. The company offers a cloud management platform that allows businesses to efficiently manage their cloud infrastructure through environment provisioning, governance, and workflow tools. The platform is designed to empower a range of users, including developers, site reliability engineers, data scientists, and support staff, by providing a self-service environment that facilitates the handling of complex workloads. With capabilities for creating custom environments and running end-to-end tests on each pull request, env0 enables organizations to enhance productivity while maintaining cost control across major cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

Spectro Cloud

Series B in 2022
Spectro Cloud, Inc. is a technology firm based in Santa Clara, California, specializing in Kubernetes management solutions. Established in 2019, the company offers the Palette platform, which simplifies the deployment and management of Kubernetes environments across diverse infrastructures, including public clouds, private clouds, data centers, and bare metal. Palette enables Platform Engineering, IT Operations, and DevOps teams to efficiently manage the entire Kubernetes lifecycle while ensuring compliance, security, and operational health. The platform supports both virtual machine and container workloads, providing tailored Kubernetes stacks that cater to specific organizational needs. Spectro Cloud has received recognition as a Gartner Cool Vendor and a CRN Tech Innovator, and is acknowledged as a leader in GigaOm’s 2024 Radars for Edge Kubernetes and Managed Kubernetes.

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.

Spectro Cloud

Series A in 2021
Spectro Cloud, Inc. is a technology firm based in Santa Clara, California, specializing in Kubernetes management solutions. Established in 2019, the company offers the Palette platform, which simplifies the deployment and management of Kubernetes environments across diverse infrastructures, including public clouds, private clouds, data centers, and bare metal. Palette enables Platform Engineering, IT Operations, and DevOps teams to efficiently manage the entire Kubernetes lifecycle while ensuring compliance, security, and operational health. The platform supports both virtual machine and container workloads, providing tailored Kubernetes stacks that cater to specific organizational needs. Spectro Cloud has received recognition as a Gartner Cool Vendor and a CRN Tech Innovator, and is acknowledged as a leader in GigaOm’s 2024 Radars for Edge Kubernetes and Managed Kubernetes.

env0

Series A in 2021
env0 is a developer of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) management software based in Giv'atayim, Israel. The company offers a cloud management platform that allows businesses to efficiently manage their cloud infrastructure through environment provisioning, governance, and workflow tools. The platform is designed to empower a range of users, including developers, site reliability engineers, data scientists, and support staff, by providing a self-service environment that facilitates the handling of complex workloads. With capabilities for creating custom environments and running end-to-end tests on each pull request, env0 enables organizations to enhance productivity while maintaining cost control across major cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

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 offers a cloud management platform that allows businesses to efficiently manage their cloud infrastructure through environment provisioning, governance, and workflow tools. The platform is designed to empower a range of users, including developers, site reliability engineers, data scientists, and support staff, by providing a self-service environment that facilitates the handling of complex workloads. With capabilities for creating custom environments and running end-to-end tests on each pull request, env0 enables organizations to enhance productivity while maintaining cost control across major cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

env0

Seed Round in 2020
env0 is a developer of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) management software based in Giv'atayim, Israel. The company offers a cloud management platform that allows businesses to efficiently manage their cloud infrastructure through environment provisioning, governance, and workflow tools. The platform is designed to empower a range of users, including developers, site reliability engineers, data scientists, and support staff, by providing a self-service environment that facilitates the handling of complex workloads. With capabilities for creating custom environments and running end-to-end tests on each pull request, env0 enables organizations to enhance productivity while maintaining cost control across major cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

Spectro Cloud

Seed Round in 2020
Spectro Cloud, Inc. is a technology firm based in Santa Clara, California, specializing in Kubernetes management solutions. Established in 2019, the company offers the Palette platform, which simplifies the deployment and management of Kubernetes environments across diverse infrastructures, including public clouds, private clouds, data centers, and bare metal. Palette enables Platform Engineering, IT Operations, and DevOps teams to efficiently manage the entire Kubernetes lifecycle while ensuring compliance, security, and operational health. The platform supports both virtual machine and container workloads, providing tailored Kubernetes stacks that cater to specific organizational needs. Spectro Cloud has received recognition as a Gartner Cool Vendor and a CRN Tech Innovator, and is acknowledged as a leader in GigaOm’s 2024 Radars for Edge Kubernetes and Managed Kubernetes.

NALEJ /knowledge [nal-ej]/ Corporation

Seed Round in 2019
Nalej operates an edge computing platform designed to facilitate the end-to-end lifecycle management of distributed infrastructure, networks, multi-cloud environments, and applications. The platform empowers organizations by enabling the secure development, deployment, and management of applications and data across various servers and devices, optimizing resources based on geographic distribution and specific operational parameters. Nalej's software integrates advanced technologies such as Kubernetes, serverless computing, and machine learning, allowing for seamless automation of application deployment and workload management. This capability significantly reduces the complexity and cost associated with edge computing by providing developers and analysts with comprehensive monitoring and operational tools. Furthermore, Nalej's platform continuously analyzes optimization opportunities, ensuring that resources are utilized effectively while addressing security and compliance needs across the enterprise.

Spectro Cloud

Seed Round in 2019
Spectro Cloud, Inc. is a technology firm based in Santa Clara, California, specializing in Kubernetes management solutions. Established in 2019, the company offers the Palette platform, which simplifies the deployment and management of Kubernetes environments across diverse infrastructures, including public clouds, private clouds, data centers, and bare metal. Palette enables Platform Engineering, IT Operations, and DevOps teams to efficiently manage the entire Kubernetes lifecycle while ensuring compliance, security, and operational health. The platform supports both virtual machine and container workloads, providing tailored Kubernetes stacks that cater to specific organizational needs. Spectro Cloud has received recognition as a Gartner Cool Vendor and a CRN Tech Innovator, and is acknowledged as a leader in GigaOm’s 2024 Radars for Edge Kubernetes and Managed Kubernetes.

NALEJ /knowledge [nal-ej]/ Corporation

Seed Round in 2016
Nalej operates an edge computing platform designed to facilitate the end-to-end lifecycle management of distributed infrastructure, networks, multi-cloud environments, and applications. The platform empowers organizations by enabling the secure development, deployment, and management of applications and data across various servers and devices, optimizing resources based on geographic distribution and specific operational parameters. Nalej's software integrates advanced technologies such as Kubernetes, serverless computing, and machine learning, allowing for seamless automation of application deployment and workload management. This capability significantly reduces the complexity and cost associated with edge computing by providing developers and analysts with comprehensive monitoring and operational tools. Furthermore, Nalej's platform continuously analyzes optimization opportunities, ensuring that resources are utilized effectively while addressing security and compliance needs across the enterprise.
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