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partnering from Inception with bold technical founders building the autonomous enterprise, lead investor for pre-product founders @edsim @etdurbin @ellenchisa
🔥 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. 🎥👇🧵
Building AI agents shouldn't be whack-a-mole. Solve a problem once. Keep it solved. Kiln v1, launching today ↓
Sitting in Chicago with 50 CIOs and AI leaders at large Midwest enterprise household names and when asked who feels like they are using agents at scale, no one raised their hand. Still so so early despite what you read on X.
“When the AI landscape shifts, Israeli teams reorient faster.” Eliot Durbin, General Partner at @Boldstartvc, joined CTech for its 2026 International VC Survey. calcalistech.com/ctechnews/arti…
30 years of venture investing and I've never seen a market move this fast with so much uncertainty which means huge opportunity. 🙏🏻 @HackItMax - we covered a ton of ground on some of my frameworks for investing + working with founders like the 5 P's and 3 CH's. Going to point Chewbarka, my OpenClaw bot, to update my markdown files on me based on all this content!
Keycard has been named to the @CBinsights 2026 AI 100. We've been building the identity and access layer for AI agents: the infrastructure that identifies agents, enforces task-scoped access at runtime, and gives organizations a complete audit trail of every action 🧵
Some VCs take 6 months to say no. Some of these have given term sheets in under 48 hours: - @CRV any partner can say yes without committee approval. 24 hours. - @HustleFundVC built the whole fund model around speed - @Boldstartvc enterprise seed, will move same week if they like you - @20vcFund can issue term sheets within 24 hours - @BaseCaseBTC former founders, small team, no committee drag - @eastventures built their entire model around 24-48hr decisions - @forumventures operator-led, data-driven, fast by design - @PrecursorVC solo GP, Charles Hudson decides fast - @angelpad small cohort, direct GP access, decisions in days P.S. If you’re considering any of these funds, your data room needed to be ready yesterday. The best way to tell your story is through → @ThePageform
After coding 100% agentic for 6 months, my key observation is that software design is more important than ever.
Love this move - huge kahunas! Wrote about this in the latest What's 🔥 in Enterprise IT/VC #494 "From No Software to No Per-Seat: Benioff Takes a Sledgehammer to His Own Creation" The floodgates will open. Who moves next? Workday? ServiceNow? SAP? full post: whatshotit.vc/p/whats-in-ent…
Sad news. My friend Simon who did the original bird for Twitter, Octocat for GitHub and Redid Sammy The Shark for DigitalOcean has passed away, he was 56. He was a great guy. What a loss.
Introducing our eMerge Americas AI Hackathon Judges. 🚀 Join 200+ developers, data scientists, designers, and entrepreneurs for a high-energy day of building AI-powered solutions to real-world challenges at the eMerge AI Hackathon. JUDGES: Ayal Stern — @thelabmiami Brian Brackeen — @lightshipcap Leonardo Tang — @haizelabs Ed Sim — boldstart Ventures Rob Bailey — Stealth Register Now ➡️ zurl.co/ONCwY Turn bold ideas into real prototypes in just one day. @haizelabs @Lovable @ayalstern @edsim @BrianBrackeen @RMB
Quantum moved from lab to balance sheet this year. eMerge Americas 2026 is where that story gets its Miami stage. 🚀✨ Eight sessions across three days on quantum strategy, finance, commercialization, national security, drug discovery, and scale. Speakers from @IonQ_Inc , @jpmorgan, @Boldstartvc , @QuantumCoast Capital, HorizonX, @DARPA , @QunnectInc , Zapata Quantum, and The Quantum Insider. If quantum is on your 2026 agenda, be in the room. April 22-24, Miami Beach ➡️ emergeamericas.com Thanks to our quantum partners: IonQ, Quantum Coast Capital, Florida Quantum, The Quantum Insider, and HorizonX. #eMerge2026 #QuantumComputing #DeepTech #MiamiTech @melmedina305 @MedinaCapital @mattcimaglia
