Ed Sim
Founder at BOLDSTART VENTURES MANAGEMENT LLC
Network origin in Ed Sim first degree
| Entity | Entity type | Industry | |
|---|---|---|---|
Harvard University
 Harvard University Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.
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| College/University | Other Consumer Services | 753 |
Snyk Ltd.
 Snyk Ltd. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Snyk Ltd. engages in the provision of software services. It offer Synk open source, container, infrastructure as code, intel vulnerability, and licensed compliance management. The company was founded by Guy Podjarny, Danny Grander and Assaf Hefetz and is headquartered in Reading, the United Kingdom.
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| Subsidiary | Packaged Software | 15 |
BOLDSTART VENTURES MANAGEMENT LLC
 BOLDSTART VENTURES MANAGEMENT LLC Investment ManagersFinance Boldstart Ventures Management LLC (Boldstart Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Penny Black Holdings LLC founded in 2010 by Ed G. Sim. The firm is headquartered in Miami, Florida.
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| Subsidiary | Investment Managers | 15 |
Kustomer, Inc.
 Kustomer, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Kustomer, Inc. engages in the design and development of an omnichannel Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) customer relationship management (CRM) platform. The firm offers Kustomer platform. The company was founded by Bradley Birnbaum and Jeremy Suriel in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY.
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| Subsidiary | Packaged Software | 13 |
HYPR Corp.
 HYPR Corp. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services HYPR Corp. engages in the provision of decentralized biometric encryption to secure password-less authentication across multiple platforms. It specializes in cyber security, biometrics, mobile security, infrastructure, data security, hardware, security, software, cloud services. The company was founded by Bojan Simic, George Avetisov, James V. Barcia and Roman Kadinsky in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, NY.
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| Holding Company | Miscellaneous Commercial Services | 13 |
Greenplum, Inc.
 Greenplum, Inc. Data Processing ServicesTechnology Services Greenplum, Inc. provides enterprise data cloud solutions for large-scale data warehousing and analytics. It products include greenplum database 4.0, single-node edition, chorus and data computing appliance. The company was founded in 2003 by Luke Lonergan and Scott Yara and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.
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| Extinct | Data Processing Services | 11 |
Answers.com Corp.
 Answers.com Corp. Internet Software/ServicesTechnology Services Answers.com Corp. operates as a free, ad-supported Internet search services that supply users with editorial content covering different topics. The firm's platform leverages the sizable reach of the top-20 comScore site Answers.com, along with its cloud-based solutions from ForeSee, Webcollage, and ResellerRatings to enable businesses and organizations to engage with customers at every interaction point, drive investment decisions from customer insights, and deliver content that powers the customer experience. The company was founded by Christopher J. Sims, David Karandish, Mark A. Tebbe, and Robert S. Rosenschein in 1999 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.
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| Subsidiary | Internet Software/Services | 11 |
Chaac Ventures
 Chaac Ventures Investment ManagersFinance Chaac Ventures (Chaac Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Luke Armour. The firm is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.
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| Private Company | Investment Managers | 11 |
MState Co
 MState Co Investment ManagersFinance MState Co (MState) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Ed G. Sim, Eliot T. Durbin and Rob Bailey. The firm is headquartered in New York.
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| Holding Company | Investment Managers | 10 |
BigID, Inc.
 BigID, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services BigID, Inc. develops software solutions for managing the privacy and protection of personal customer data. It offers subject access, breach response, post DLP discovery, privacy shield, and anonymization and account fraud privacy and protection solutions. The company was founded by Dimitri Sirota and Nimrod Vax and is headquartered in New York, NY.
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| Holding Company | Packaged Software | 10 |
Dawntreader Ventures LLC
 Dawntreader Ventures LLC Investment ManagersFinance Dawntreader Ventures LLC (Dawntreader Ventures) is a Venture Capital firm founded in 1998 by Dan I DeWolf, Ed G. Sim and Robert H. Lessin. The firm is headquartered in New York.
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| Subsidiary | Investment Managers | 7 |
Blockdaemon, Inc.
 Blockdaemon, Inc. Data Processing ServicesTechnology Services Blockdaemon, Inc. develops a service platform that allows enterprises to manage blockchain applications. It offers custom solutions and blockchain nodes as a service, The company was founded by Konstantin Klaus Philipp Richter and is headquartered in the New York, NY.
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| Holding Company | Data Processing Services | 6 |
| Public Company | Advertising/Marketing Services | 5 | |
Protect AI, Inc.
 Protect AI, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Protect AI, Inc. provides organizations with the ability to manage their machine learning environments end-to-end. The company is based in Seattle, WA, with offices in San Francisco and Raleigh. The company's Radar platform creates a machine learning bill of materials (MLBOM), remediates security vulnerabilities, and detects threats to prevent data and secrets leakages. The company is defining and leading a new market segment within security called MLsecOps. Protect AI is privately held and funded by Acrew Capital, Avisio Ventures, Boldstart Ventures, Knollwood Capital, Pelion Ventures, and experienced cybersecurity leaders Shlomo Kramer, Nir Polak, and Dimitri Sirota. Protect AI was founded by AI leaders from Amazon and Oracle, including Badar Ahmed, Daryan Dehghanpisheh, and Ian Swanson, who has been the CEO since incorporation.
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| Holding Company | Packaged Software | 5 |
| Public Company | Packaged Software | 5 | |
EnvZero, Inc.
 EnvZero, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services EnvZero, Inc. engages in the development of a cloud management platform. It focuses on providing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks for helping the SRE and DevOps teams. The company was founded by Ohad Maislish and Omry Hay in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.
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| Holding Company | Packaged Software | 4 |
Dooly Research Ltd.
 Dooly Research Ltd. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Dooly Research Ltd. engages in updating customer relationship management solutions. It provides Dooly, an intelligent listening post and playbook builder for sales. The company was founded by Kriston Hartvigsen and Justin Vaillancourt and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
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| Holding Company | Packaged Software | 4 |
Fortressiq, Inc.
 Fortressiq, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Fortressiq, Inc. provides enterprise business automation. It offers replication learning, natural language understanding, computer vision, few shot detection, and imitation learning. The company was founded by Pankaj Chowdhry and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.
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| Subsidiary | Packaged Software | 4 |
Equitable Real Estate Investment Management, Inc.
 Equitable Real Estate Investment Management, Inc. Life/Health InsuranceFinance Part of AXA SA, Equitable Real Estate Investment Management, Inc. markets life insurance, property, and casualty insurance and also conducts asset management services. The company is based in Chicago, IL.
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| Subsidiary | Life/Health Insurance | 3 |
Sales Community LLC
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| Private Company | 2 | |
Dope.Security, Inc.
 Dope.Security, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Dope.Security, Inc. offers a fly-direct secure web gateway (SWG) that eliminates stopovers and outages. The company is based in Mountain View, CA, and the CEO of the company is Kunal Agarwal. The company provides enterprise-grade security checks directly on the endpoint, resulting in stronger privacy, reliability, and performance speeds up to 4x faster. The company's invisible endpoint performs all the necessary functions of an SWG on-device, on every browser, application, and even the Apple M1 silicon. Dope.Security has re-architected the system to provide a cleaner approach to SWG, eliminating the need for a datacenter.
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| Holding Company | Information Technology Services | 2 |
J.P. Morgan Investment Management Ltd.
 J.P. Morgan Investment Management Ltd. Investment ManagersFinance J.P. Morgan Investment Management Ltd. provides investment banking and financial services It also offers commercial banking, financial transaction processing, asset management, and private equity services. The company was founded on April 28, 2000 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.
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| Extinct | Investment Managers | 2 |
Arigato Machine, Inc.
 Arigato Machine, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Arigato Machine, Inc. develops software solutions. The company was founded by Jevon MacDonald, Ian Livingstone and Jeff Andersen and is headquartered in Halifax, Canada.
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| Subsidiary | Packaged Software | 1 |
| Private Eq Fd/Alt Invt | Investment Managers | 1 |
Chart of Companies connected to the second degree
Multi-company connection
Companies connected to Ed Sim via their personal network
| Company | Sector | Related people | Main position |
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| CA TECHNOLOGIES | Packaged Software | Consultant / Advisor Corporate Officer/Principal | |
| EMC CORPORATION | Computer Peripherals | Corporate Officer/Principal Sales & Marketing | |
| IBM | Packaged Software | Corporate Officer/Principal Corporate Officer/Principal | |
| CHECK POINT SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES LTD. | Internet Software/Services | Corporate Officer/Principal | |
MarketWatch, Inc.
 MarketWatch, Inc. Internet Software/ServicesTechnology Services MarketWatch, Inc. provides business news, personal finance information, real-time commentary and investment tools and data. The firm offers subscription products including The Hulbert Financial Digest, Retirement Weekly, The Technical Indicator and Reality Check. The company was founded by Lawrence s. Kramer and Thom Calandra in October 1997 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. | Internet Software/Services | Chief Executive Officer Director/Board Member | |
Blue Coat Systems, Inc.
 Blue Coat Systems, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Blue Coat Systems, Inc. engages in the business of designing, developing, and selling a family of proxy and other appliances, and related software and services that secure, accelerate, and optimize the delivery of business applications, web content, and other information to distributed users over a wide area network or across an enterprise’s gateway to the public internet. It operates through the following geographical segments: Americas; Europe, Middle East, and Africa; and Asia and Pacific. The Americas segment includes North America, Central America, and Latin America. The company was founded on March 13, 1996 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA. | Information Technology Services | Corporate Officer/Principal | |
| SALESFORCE.COM, INC. | Packaged Software | Chief Executive Officer Private Equity Investor | |
Threat Stack, Inc.
 Threat Stack, Inc. Internet Software/ServicesTechnology Services Threat Stack, Inc. operates as an online security system for businesses that provides a firewall. It provides security monitoring for public, private and hybrid cloud infrastructures protecting servers, and the data they access, from intrusion and data loss. It also offers protection, intelligent detection, and forensics data that enables to rapidly respond to malicious threats. The company was founded by Dustin Webber, Jason Meller and Jennifer Andre in November 2012 and is headquartered in Boston, MA. | Internet Software/Services | Director/Board Member Director/Board Member | |
McKinsey & Co., Inc.
 McKinsey & Co., Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY. | Miscellaneous Commercial Services | Corporate Officer/Principal Corporate Officer/Principal | |
| The Trustees of Columbia University in The City of New York | College/University | Undergraduate Degree Masters Business Admin | |
Duke University
 Duke University Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC. | College/University | Undergraduate Degree Masters Business Admin Undergraduate Degree Undergraduate Degree | |
RRE Advisors LLC
 RRE Advisors LLC Investment ManagersFinance RRE Advisors LLC is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 1994 by Stuart Jay Ellman, James D. Robinson and Jim D. Robinson. RRE Advisors LLC is headquartered in New York. | Investment Managers | Founder Private Equity Analyst | |
| University of Pennsylvania | College/University | Graduate Degree Undergraduate Degree | |
Insight Venture Management LLC
 Insight Venture Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance Insight Venture Management LLC (Insight Venture Partners) is a private equity and venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Insight Holdings Group LLC founded in 1995 by Jeffrey L. Horing and Jerry Fred Murdock. The firm is headquartered in New York. | Investment Managers | Private Equity Investor Private Equity Investor | |
Motion Industries, Inc.
 Motion Industries, Inc. Wholesale DistributorsDistribution Services Motion Industries, Inc. engages in the distribution of bearings and power transmission equipment. The firm provides abrasives, adhesives, sealants, tapes, hose and fittings, pneumatics, seals, gaskets, accessories, material handling, linear motion, hydraulics and cutting tools. It also offers encompass e-business, automation, energy assessment, technical product support and engineering, industrial supply, and mill services. The company was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Birmingham, AL. | Wholesale Distributors | Chief Tech/Sci/R&D Officer | |
Crescent Electric Supply Co.
 Crescent Electric Supply Co. Wholesale DistributorsDistribution Services Crescent Electric Supply Co. distributes electrical hardware. The firm offers construction materials, industrial automation products, data communications and networking equipment. The company was founded by Titus B. Schmidt in 1919 and is headquartered in East Dubuque, IL. | Wholesale Distributors | Director/Board Member | |
| American University | College/University | Graduate Degree | |
| Auburn University | College/University | Undergraduate Degree | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | College/University | Corporate Officer/Principal Masters Business Admin | |
Cornell University
 Cornell University Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY. | College/University | Undergraduate Degree Undergraduate Degree Undergraduate Degree Masters Business Admin | |
| Princeton University | College/University | Undergraduate Degree Undergraduate Degree Undergraduate Degree Undergraduate Degree Undergraduate Degree | |
| University of California, Berkeley | College/University | Doctorate Degree Undergraduate Degree | |
| IMPERVA INC | Packaged Software | Corporate Officer/Principal | |
The Bostwick-Braun Co.
 The Bostwick-Braun Co. Wholesale DistributorsDistribution Services The Bostwick-Braun Co. is a wholesale hardware distributor, supplying both retail and commercial/industrial customers throughout the Midwest region. Bostwick is the oldest and largest full service general-line distributors in the country. It strives to give the best service the industry has to offer. Bostwick-Braun employee-owners are committed to excellence, innovation, and professionalism. | Wholesale Distributors | Director/Board Member | |
Young Presidents' Organization, Inc.
 Young Presidents' Organization, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Young Presidents' Organization, Inc. is a global leadership community of over 30,000 chief executives from 142 countries. The non-profit company is based in Irving, TX and has a global presence of subsidiaries in several regions. The company's mission is to help its members become better leaders and better people. The company was founded in 1950 by Ray Hickok, Khalid Mohamed Jassem Kanoo. Thayer Smith has been the CEO of the company since 2007. | Miscellaneous Commercial Services | Corporate Officer/Principal Corporate Officer/Principal | |
New York State Bar Association
 New York State Bar Association Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services New York State Bar Association is a non-profit organization, which provides legal services and offers a membership program for lawyers. It also publishes an array of books, bar journals, law digest, and State Bar news. The company was founded in 1876 and is headquartered in Alban, NY. | Miscellaneous Commercial Services | Corporate Officer/Principal Corporate Officer/Principal | |
406 Ventures Management LLC
 406 Ventures Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance 406 Ventures Management LLC (406 Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Maria A. Cirino, Liam S. Donohue and Larry P. Begley. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | Investment Managers | Private Equity Investor Private Equity Analyst | |
| The University of Alabama at Birmingham | College/University | Masters Business Admin | |
Comcast Ventures LLC
 Comcast Ventures LLC Investment ManagersFinance Comcast Ventures LLC is a Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of Comcast Corp founded in the year 2011 by Sam H Schwartz and Julian A Brodsky. The firm headquartered in Philadelphia. | Investment Managers | Private Equity Investor Private Equity Investor | |
| Harvard Business School | College/University | Masters Business Admin Masters Business Admin Masters Business Admin Masters Business Admin Corporate Officer/Principal | |
| The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania | College/University | Undergraduate Degree Masters Business Admin Masters Business Admin | |
Trilio Data, Inc.
 Trilio Data, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Trilio Data, Inc. engages in the development of a software provides data protection through point-in-time capture, storage, and application recovery. It focuses on providing native data protection for OpenStack clouds and Red Hat Virtualization hypervisors. The company was founded by, David S. Safaii, Giri Basava, Murali Balcha, and Sanjay Baronia in 2013 and is headquartered in Framingham, MA. | Packaged Software | Director/Board Member Director/Board Member | |
Utilizecore, Inc.
 Utilizecore, Inc. Internet Software/ServicesTechnology Services Utilizecore, Inc. is a company that provides a platform to automate service delivery processes, reducing operational costs by up to 70%. The company is based in New York, NY. The company's platform allows businesses to automate processes such as preventive maintenance, proposals, and invoicing. By optimizing workflows by up to 80%, businesses can work smarter and not harder. Utilizecore's platform enables businesses to grow from a local to a national provider by better managing their provider network and delighting more customers. The company was founded in 2016, and the CEO is Ryan Gottfried. | Internet Software/Services | Director/Board Member Director/Board Member | |
HUMAN Security, Inc.
 HUMAN Security, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services HUMAN Security, Inc. provides cyber security services. It specializes in detection and prevention of advanced bot and malware fraud, protecting the digital advertising ecosystem and enterprise organizations across the globe. The firm's products include MediaGuard and FraudSensor. The company was founded by Michael Tiffany, Dan Kaminsky, Ashur Kalb and Tamer Hassan in 2012 and is headquartered New York, NY. | Information Technology Services | Director/Board Member Director/Board Member | |
Uptycs, Inc.
 Uptycs, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Uptycs, Inc. provides cloud solution for system management, anomaly detection and incident response using robust analytics platform and out-of-the-box integration with threat intelligence. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA. | Packaged Software | Director/Board Member Director/Board Member | |
CyberGRX, Inc.
 CyberGRX, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services CyberGRX, Inc. develops software for cyber risk management services. The firm through its platform, enables enterprises to identify, assess, mitigate, and monitor companies cyber risk exposures. Its solutions include TPCRM, risk insights, and dynamic assessments. The company was founded by Fred H. Kneip in 2015 and is headquartered in Denver, CO. | Packaged Software | Director/Board Member Director/Board Member | |
| MIT Sloan School of Management | College/University | Masters Business Admin Masters Business Admin | |
CloudHealth by VMware
 CloudHealth by VMware Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services CloudHealth Technologies, Inc. offers business performance management software platform for the cloud. It operates as SaaS software development firm that allows companies to trend, analyze, model, plan and predict performance and cost optimization for the cloud as it applies to business model. The company was founded by Joseph Kinsella, David D. Eicher, and Daniel D. Phillips Jr. in 2012 and is headquartered in Boston, MA. | Packaged Software | Director/Board Member Director/Board Member | |
Sevco Security, Inc.
 Sevco Security, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Sevco Security, Inc. provides cyber security services. The company was founded by Jaffrey Guy and Greg Fitzgerald in 2020 and is headquartered in Austin, TX. | Information Technology Services | Director/Board Member Director/Board Member | |
Her Justice, Inc.
 Her Justice, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Her Justice, Inc. provides free legal services to family, divorce and immigration law to low-income women. It offers legal advocacy and representation in the fields of family law, divorce and immigration. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in New York, NY. | Miscellaneous Commercial Services | Director/Board Member | |
Acrew Capital Management Corp.
 Acrew Capital Management Corp. Investment ManagersFinance Acrew Capital Management Corp.(Acrew Capital) is a venture capital firm is founded in 2019 by Asad Khaliq and Vishal Lugani. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. | Investment Managers | Private Equity Investor |
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International
| United States | 48 |
| Israel | 2 |
Sectoral
| Technology Services | 19 |
| Consumer Services | 13 |
| Finance | 10 |
| Commercial Services | 6 |
| Distribution Services | 4 |
Operational
| Director/Board Member | 445 |
| Corporate Officer/Principal | 154 |
| Founder | 83 |
| Independent Dir/Board Member | 70 |
| Private Equity Investor | 69 |
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| James Robinson | 45 |
| Neeraj Agrawal | 44 |
| Greg Dracon | 36 |
| George Mathew | 32 |
| Gordon Ritter | 31 |
| Yun Kuen Wong | 29 |
| Lawrence Kramer | 26 |
| Jay Leek | 25 |
| Wendi Sturgis | 23 |
| Eva Ho | 23 |
| Mark Segall | 22 |
| Andreas Beroutsos | 22 |
| Gil Beyda | 22 |
| Brian Brady | 20 |
| Dave Zilberman | 20 |
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