Boldstart Ventures

Boldstart Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 2010 and based in Miami, Florida. It specializes in partnering with technical founders at the inception of their companies, often serving as the first investor before product development begins. The firm focuses on sectors such as enterprise infrastructure, software-as-a-service, cybersecurity, and developer technologies. Boldstart Ventures leverages its extensive network of early adopters to help founders achieve product-market fit and build category-defining companies. Notable investments include companies like Snyk, BigID, Kustomer, and Superhuman. The firm is led by founding partner Ed Sim, who has over 24 years of experience in the venture capital space.

Ernest Addison

Associate

Anna Debenham

Operating Partner

Shomik Ghosh

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 that helps businesses master cloud infrastructure with environment provisioning, cloud governance, and workflow tools. Built to empower the entire team, env0 provides developers, SREs, data scientists, and even sales and support staff with a way to shift complex workloads into manageable cloud environments. The env0 platform is the first cloud management platform built to enable self-service with complete governance and cost control in 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 gets software containers to Zero Vulns in minutes; no base image changes. We integrate into your pipeline, where we assess, triage, patch automatically & transparently.

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 that helps businesses master cloud infrastructure with environment provisioning, cloud governance, and workflow tools. Built to empower the entire team, env0 provides developers, SREs, data scientists, and even sales and support staff with a way to shift complex workloads into manageable cloud environments. The env0 platform is the first cloud management platform built to enable self-service with complete governance and cost control in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

Root

Seed Round in 2021
Root gets software containers to Zero Vulns in minutes; no base image changes. We integrate into your pipeline, where we assess, triage, patch automatically & transparently.

env0

Funding Round in 2020
env0 is a developer of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) management software that helps businesses master cloud infrastructure with environment provisioning, cloud governance, and workflow tools. Built to empower the entire team, env0 provides developers, SREs, data scientists, and even sales and support staff with a way to shift complex workloads into manageable cloud environments. The env0 platform is the first cloud management platform built to enable self-service with complete governance and cost control in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

env0

Seed Round in 2020
env0 is a developer of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) management software that helps businesses master cloud infrastructure with environment provisioning, cloud governance, and workflow tools. Built to empower the entire team, env0 provides developers, SREs, data scientists, and even sales and support staff with a way to shift complex workloads into manageable cloud environments. The env0 platform is the first cloud management platform built to enable self-service with complete governance and cost control in 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 is a software company that develops and operates a mosaic OS and platform. The company's mosaic OS/Platform and Tools enable IT/OT teams, operators, developers, and analysts to integrate and interoperate heterogeneous distributed resources, as well as dynamically leverage software-defined, composable open services, cloud to-edge/edge to-cloud (C2E/E2C) workloads, and effects. NALEJ is offering a flexible architecture to enable edge-optimized programmable solutions in response to increasingly complex requirements and the demanding global, national, and local environments in which the industry operates. It supports multiple storage models, including distributed replication, system failure recovery with minimal data loss at the edge, and forward deployment of stateful application services

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 is a software company that develops and operates a mosaic OS and platform. The company's mosaic OS/Platform and Tools enable IT/OT teams, operators, developers, and analysts to integrate and interoperate heterogeneous distributed resources, as well as dynamically leverage software-defined, composable open services, cloud to-edge/edge to-cloud (C2E/E2C) workloads, and effects. NALEJ is offering a flexible architecture to enable edge-optimized programmable solutions in response to increasingly complex requirements and the demanding global, national, and local environments in which the industry operates. It supports multiple storage models, including distributed replication, system failure recovery with minimal data loss at the edge, and forward deployment of stateful application services
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