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Boldstart Ventures
Venture capital firm · Founded 2010 · Active in 2026
Boldstart Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York, USA, founded in 2010. The page below shows 11 Power Law outcomes from Boldstart Ventures's portfolio — 11 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 0 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).
Outcomes are concentrated in Marketing · Cybersecurity · Other B2B Software; top portfolio geographies are USA · Sweden. Boldstart ranks #153 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.
The 11 Boldstart Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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USA10
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Sweden1
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Marketing4
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Cybersecurity2
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Other B2B Software2
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Fintech2
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eCommerce & Marketplaces1
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Series B+4
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Seed7
Boldstart's 11 Power Law outcomes.
Where Boldstart's founders come from — and where they study.
16 founders across the 11 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Tel Aviv University and Microsoft are the deepest single pipelines.
Key people at Boldstart.
How does Boldstart stack up?
Boldstart in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by entry stage and outcome tierSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsSentiment on X
What X is saying about Boldstart Ventures
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Boldstart on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
In the news
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