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Boldstart Ventures

Venture capital firm · Founded 2010 · Active in 2026

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11 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #153 · Global · 11 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 22% 5y
11
Decacorns → 0% 5y
1
Thoroughbreds ↑ 80% 5y
10

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.

Portfolio analysis

The 11 Boldstart Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA10
  2. Sweden1
By sectorCount
  1. Marketing4
  2. Cybersecurity2
  3. Other B2B Software2
  4. Fintech2
  5. eCommerce & Marketplaces1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+4
  2. Seed7
01 · Portfolio market map

Boldstart's 11 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
11 of 11 Power Law outcomes
02 · Founder talent

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.

LocationCount
Israel7
United States5
Canada3
Zimbabwe1
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UniversityCount
Tel Aviv University4
McGill University2
Stony Brook University2
University of Cape Town1
The University of British Columbia1
Technion Israel Institute of Technology1
Bar-Ilan University1
Weizmann Institute of Science1
Brandeis University1
UCLA1
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Origin companyCount
Microsoft4
LinkedIn2
Houzz2
Incognia2
Sisense1
Placer1
Aqua Security1
Salesforce1
HYPR1
Alphabet | Google1
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Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.
03 · Key people

Key people at Boldstart.

Sources: Dealroom desktop research, official firm profiles and public investor lists.
04 · Compare with peers

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.

Compare against

Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns

Stage focus

Companies by entry stage and outcome tier

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.

Sentiment 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

Latest news about Boldstart Ventures

Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Boldstart — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.

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