Ed is founder of boldstart ventures, a day one partner and true believer for developer first and SaaS founders. boldstart is a lead investor and often partners with technical founders at inception, helping accelerate their path to product market fit. Ed is currently a board member/observer of Snyk, Kustomer, BigID, Harbr Data, Env0, Blockdaemon, and Cycle. Other notable day one investments include Superhuman, Security Scorecard, and Front. Over 25 years leading first round investments including LivePerson (NASDAQ: LPSN), GoToMeeting (acq. By Citrix), and Greenplum (acq. EMC/Pivotal). Ed has a BA in Economics from Harvard.