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boldstart ventures

@Boldstartvc

partnering from Inception with bold technical founders building the autonomous enterprise, lead investor for pre-product founders @edsim @etdurbin @ellenchisa

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Inception.vc

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@Boldstartvc
Jul 8, 2025
Calling all technical founders who are bleeding F***ing early - let's build 🏗️ Reloaded with $250M Fund VII - inception only capital!
Ed Sim
@edsim
Jul 8, 2025
🔥 up to announce @Boldstartvc Fund VII $250M to back bold technical founders building the autonomous enterprise. From Inception. Before the world believes. It always starts with an idea that feels insane… until it isn’t. 🎥👇🧵
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Ed Sim
@edsim
Jun 9
well said @peteflorence! Physical AI is hitting its GPT-2 to GPT-3 moment. We are at the point where general models that work across tasks will be the ones that take robots from impressive demo to commercially deployed. This is what @GeneralistAI is building.
TBPN
@tbpn
Jun 8
Generalist CEO @peteflorence says robotics models are in a transition period similar to the step change between GPT-2 and GPT-3. They're "starting to cross over into levels of performance where these things are commercially viable for a number of different applications." "We
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Ed Sim
@edsim
Jun 6
What caught my attention this week wasn’t a new model. It was how quickly the conversation is shifting as AI budgets explode. More enterprises are exploring alternatives: owning context, post-training, routing, and improving open source models. From Model Wars to Workflow
What’s 🔥 in Enterprise IT/VC #501
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Bloomberg
@business
Jun 4
Robotics startup Generalist AI has raised $400 million in a new funding round
Nvidia-Backed Robotics Startup Generalist AI Valued at $2 Billion
From bloomberg.com
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Ed Sim
@edsim
Jun 4
Replying to @edsim
fun to see the post from Partner @ellenchisa laying out why we @Boldstartvc partnered with this team and vision at inception
GeneralistAI — When Robots Start to Improvise — Welcome to boldstart - boldstart ventures
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Ed Sim
@edsim
Jun 4
huge congrats to the @GeneralistAI team on its $400M raise to build the frontier lab for robot intelligence the autonomous enterprise is coming for the physical world faster than you can imagine Amazing what @peteflorence, @andyzengineer, Andrew Barry and team have accomplished
Generalist
@GeneralistAI
Jun 4
We've raised $400M in new funding. This capital goes toward one mission: building general intelligence for the physical world and making it useful to everyone.
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Ellen Chisa
@ellenchisa
Jun 4
Happy to keep supporting the team with @Boldstartvc and excited for even more cool new employee demos like the liquid pouring one @kylieyying shared last week: youtube.com/watch?v=XwjSsG… (more videos in playlist).
Generalist
@GeneralistAI
Jun 4
We've raised $400M in new funding. This capital goes toward one mission: building general intelligence for the physical world and making it useful to everyone.
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Ed Sim
@edsim
Jun 4
reiterating: "We're using the more expensive models to explore. Once we scale some of these experiences, we'll look to bring in more efficient models that are more efficient on a token basis or are open source." wrote more about this here last week: whatshotit.vc/p/whats-in-ent…
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Patrick OShaughnessy
@patrick_oshag
Jun 3
Dara (CEO of Uber) on their AI spend: "We blew through our AI budget in a quarter, for the whole year. It is forcing us to adjust. We are going to meter headcount increases because to the extent that my engineers are getting much more efficient, their throughput is
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Ed Sim
@edsim
May 30
What’s 🔥 issue #500 🤯 Honestly hard to believe. What started as notes to myself shared with a few friends somehow turned into 500 straight weeks of writing and reflecting on enterprise tech, cybersecurity, AI, infrastructure, and venture. That's over 9 1/2 years! 🙏🏼 to
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@Boldstartvc
May 30
continous targeted pen testing is here from @snyksec
Snyk
@snyksec
May 27
Today, we're excited to unveil Continuous Offensive Security, the newest product in the Evo by Snyk ecosystem. It brings AI-native pentesting to the enterprise. The full walkthrough is in the video below. Get all the details here: snyk.io/news/snyk-unve…
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@Boldstartvc
May 30
congrats @edsim on reaching a huge milestone, issue #500!
Ed Sim
@edsim
May 30
What’s 🔥 issue #500 🤯 Honestly hard to believe. What started as notes to myself shared with a few friends somehow turned into 500 straight weeks of writing and reflecting on enterprise tech, cybersecurity, AI, infrastructure, and venture. That's over 9 1/2 years! 🙏🏼 to
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The #MiamiTech Pod
@MiamiTechPod
May 29
What's the biggest fundraising mistake founders make? 👀 Top seed investor @edsim breaks down what first time founders often get wrong when raising capital, and what they should focus on instead. 🎙️ Full episode out now - miamitechpod.com/what-top-seed-… @Boldstartvc @MariaDerchi
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Ed Sim
@edsim
May 29
agreed - overblown but... reality is we're entering the next phase where enterprises fully aware of costs as vendors charge more for consumption and subsidy era is over We'll see much more in way of intelligent routing to models, more investment in open source for hybrid
Simon Willison
@simonw
May 29
I'm suspicious of that that whole story about Uber blowing their AI budget and being disappointed in the results - I dug into it and it appears to have been built on very shaky foundations
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