Most recently we co-hosted a dinner with Wipro/Wipro Ventures and had the global heads of automation from 6 Fortune 500 companies join us along with 2 of our portfolio companies, FortressIQ and Catalytic. We had a lively discussion and I thought I’d share a few nuggets of wisdom from that evening:

...some of the most telling lessons learned at our enterprise dinner with Bessemer Venture Partners around microservices, serverless, and the future of cloud-native infrastructure:

We are thrilled to announce our investment in Snyk, which is a developer-first security solution that helps companies use open source code and stay secure.

Founders, Friends, and Family: Happy New Year! We are excited about what’s ahead in 2018 and please read on for our annual 2018 enterprise forecast and a quick recap of boldstart in 2017.

2017 was another year of growing, learning, investing and partnering with amazing founders. Once again, we are grateful to have the opportunity to work with so many amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, and other collaborators to bring the boldstart family together.

We’ve had a busy and exciting few months since our last newsletter. In August, we announced the creation of Hyperfab, a growth lab for enterprise blockchain and hyperledger fabric. We partnered with IBM

I’ve written before about the competitive nature of SaaS and the amount of entrants in every category.

The AWS launch of Amazon Connect (see techcrunch article) got me thinking about the current state of play in SaaS.

I finally had a chance to take a quick read of the respective S1 filings for AppDynamics and Mulesoft.

I had a great time participating on CXOTalk by Michael Krigsman with boldstart portfolio co founders

Pivotal just announced it did over $270mm of revenue in 2016 from Cloud Foundry helping large companies with digital transformation.

Just getting back from a few days at RSA. We kicked it off Sunday night with a boldstart founders and execs dinner where we talked

Great blog post by CockroachDB on open source business models and their plans to make money

When we started boldstart in 2010, a core thesis of ours was to invest in next-gen SaaS which we called SaaS 2.0

2016 was a banner year for boldstart, and we could not have achieved any of this without the amazing support of our boldstart family

This is a story about starting an enterprise seed fund called Boldstart in 2010 and our journey in enterprise since 1996.

We hear lots of pitches at boldstart and in most cases write the founder’s first-check, so our bet is on people.

At boldstart, we are enterprise seed investors. Given that, you may ask, why WEVR? Simply put WEVR is a SaaS platform for VR

Happy New Year to all! 2015 was amazing, and we have even higher hopes for the year ahead.

Since we are seed investors in enterprise technology, I am often asked this question.

When I first met Grant Miller and Marc Campbell through my partner Eliot Durbin, they were maniacally focused on one thing; ensuring that…

When Willie Sutton, the prolific bank robber, was asked why he robbed banks, he answered, “because that’s where the money is.”

Whether the bull market ends or not, these pros expect great years for stocks like Tesla, Walmart and Disney

Ed unpacks why “founders should not sell their product to enterprise in the early days” with Harry Stebbings

boldstarters ep. 1: Scaling Culture with Security Scorecard founders Alex Yampolskiy and Jasson Casey

Peter is joined by Boldstart's Ed Sim to discuss founder/market fit and building community between founders and investors.

With more than 20 years of experience in the world of venture capital, Ed Sim offers his thoughts on the business trends to come.

Coast to Coast with Carol and Cory - Ed Sim at Boldstart Ventures, discusses the rise of businesses using blockchain.

looking back at startup landscape in 2017 and year ahead in 2018 (click for Soundcloud recording)

Ed talks with Jason about what motivates him and how boldstart invests first checks in enterprise founders

20 years & 50 enterprise companies seeded, father fled N.Korea, NYC deep tech, being 1st $ in (listen to iTunes Podcast)

Part 2 of 2 with Ed Sim Boldstart Ventures (Soundcloud)

Ed Sim - Boldstart Ventures (1/2) - (Soundcloud)

VC Panel: "Cyber Security Investing

#222 Building an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Platform

This week, Eliot Durbin, General Partner at Boldstart Ventures, joins the show. (Soundcloud)

Listen to Ed riff on enterprise startups, getting to product market fit and building a repeatable sales engine

Fireside chat with VC Ed Sim

On February 8, Cintrifuse is excited to showcase our Active Network with the Intelligent Automation Roundtable with boldstart Ventures

Ed shares Boldstart's Outlook to a Global Audience @ McKinsey NYC; he talks about the future of work with a particular emphasis on Intelligent Automation. Boldstart has been investing in the next generation of business process automation, especially leveraging ML and other cognitive algorithms leading to orders of magnitude efficiency gains.

and the future of microservices in the enterprise with Fortune 500 technical thought leaders.

Join us for a fireside chat with Hayley Barna, General Partner at First Round Capital, and Ed Sim, Founder & General Partner at Boldstart Ventures, who will discuss some of the biggest startup events, moves and trends from the past year, as well as a look forward into 2018. We’ll dive into these topics and more, as well as trends every entrepreneur should keep in mind for the year to come.

Verizon's Serhad Doken and Boldstart's Eliot Durbin discuss enterprise applications of 5G and Boldstart's thesis on the market opportunity for edge computing at the opening of their incubator inside AlleyNYC.

Waters USA brings together CIOs, CTOs and senior technology professionals, from investment banks, asset management firms, hedge funds and other financial institutions from across the US. Presentations by DeepCurrent, WallarooLabs, and Blockdaemon. Eliot Durbin, Investment Panel Speaker

Join Rob Bailey (HyperFab), Maja Vujinovic (Chief Innovation Officer, GE Digital at GE), Victor Wong (CEO & Co-Founder BlockApps), and other leaders as we discuss the enterprise use cases for blockchain

showcases winning partnership models between traditional venture fund managers and CVC investment professionals

The leading forum for trading, technology and regulatory professionals. New York City.

A candid conversation about innovation models inside of corporate environments, led by Sid Bala @ TIAA

Founders of top infrastructure software, security and application level companies discussing the fundamental trends influencing modern enterprise software.

Discussing the future of ML/AI use cases across our corporate partners and advisors

Ed will be discussing moving entire legacy systems to the cloud @ SINET Innovation Summit 2019

Eliot leading a discussion on winning pitch decks and fundraising strategies for technical founders

Boldstart, Meritech, and Snyk hosting a private evening for enterprise leadership and founders for a candid conversation around developer first operations and security in the cloud.

Boldstart & Wipro are hosting Founders & F500 Executives for a conversation about intelligent automation, what's on the horizon in terms of new technologies, emerging use cases, and adoption in the enterprise landscape.

Ask about our private reception March 4th, email cxo@boldstart.vc for details

Great discussion about the future of engineering in the enterprise with F500 and startup leadership with Pinpoint team.

Boldstart and Scale hosted IT and Security executives to discuss how forward thinking companies have managed cloud transition while protecting their organizations data.

An focused group of industry thought leaders for a round table on explore Data Science opportunities, NYC's ecosystem, and several startup demos with subject-matter experts

Hear from some of the best go-to-market leaders and execs executing on this strategy as they share their top learnings from startup to scale

Email us about our private dinner on Thursday 11/29, email cxo@boldstart.vc for details

Point A brings enterprises from around the world together to invent technologies to power global supply chains, Eliot attending

Eliot discussing the evolution of corporate innovation and tech economies in the Midwest

Discussion between founders and enterprise leaders, focused on product

Bill Serino, Pivotal, Sid Kumar, CA Technologies, Amanda Pelley at Snyk and Ed Sim at boldstart ventures give real world perspective on how to close your first large customer, work against established incumbent competition, get buy-in and understand all of the key decision makers.

Bringing next generation startups and forward-thinking enterprises together with Bessemer Venture Partners.