boldstart ventures - Team

Meet the
Team

We love bold founders and startups seeking to disrupt the establishment. We match our founders' passion, creativity, and commitment when making an investment. The bigger the idea the better. We bring over 50 years of combined experience investing in and launching new category killers in enterprise.

Charlotte Chapanoff

General Manager

Founder and General Partner

Ed is founder of boldstart ventures, an NYC-based, day one partner and true believer for enterprise infrastructure and SaaS founders.

General Partner

Eliot General Partner at boldstart where he has been day one, first check partner for founders building enterprise companies since 2010. He's most interested in developer led, security, cloud native, serverless, and automation.

Founder in Residence

Ellen is a founder in residence at Boldstart. She previously founded portfolio company Dark, and spent ten years growing product teams at Lola, Kickstarter, and Microsoft.

Venture Partner

Jeff is a an experienced entrepreneur and CEO with a 5x track record of building market moving companies.

Chief Operating Officer

Jennifer is Chief Operating Officer of Boldstart Ventures and has over 18 years of professional experience in the venture capital industry.

Natalie Ledbetter

Head of People and Platform

Natalie has 17 years of work experience ranging from building and scaling orgs in three hyper-growth tech startups (B2C and B2B) to building and owning people operations end-to-end (HR, Talent Acquisition, Employee Experience/Culture, L&D, Facilities) in Fintech, Martech, 3D Printing and I-Banking.

Shomik is a principal at boldstart. He previously was a growth stage investor at Top Tier Capital where he invested in companies like Anaplan, CircleCI, and Shape Security. He’s a software nerd and complexity science aficionado.

The Boldstart Family and Advisory Board

At boldstart we have one mission, to help you accelerate your path from founder market fit to product market fit and beyond. When you join the boldstart family, you not only join a group of like-minded technical founders focused on reinventing the enterprise, but also an extended network of experienced go-to-market and technical executives and Fortune 500 CIOs, CTOs, and CISOs. Our advisors come from some of the best companies in infrastructure and SaaS including Datadog, Figma, Atlassian, Pivotal, Microsoft, Github, Slack, and Stripe along with some of the most forward thinking Fortune 500s including Priceline, Guardian Life, CVS Health and more.

From building out a developer relations function to scaling sales and engineering, to domains like product design and people operations, our advisors are forward-thinking executives and CIOs representing massive budgets and providing key insights into early Fortune 500 engagement. By connecting you early in the design and build process, we hope to help you get there faster and more efficiently.