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Eliot Durbin

General Partner at Boldstart Ventures

United States

Overview 

Eliot Durbin is a General Partner at Boldstart Ventures with a strong track record of investing in successful startups. He has made strategic investments in companies like Steadybit, Olympix, and Smallstep, focusing on sectors such as cybersecurity, SaaS, and developer tools. Durbin's career highlights include his role as an investor and board member at Jeli, Kustomer, and Snyk, as well as his investments in diverse founders and companies in the Raleigh-Durham/Southeast US region, New York City, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Work Experience 

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BOLDstart Ventures

  • General Partner

    2010 - Current

    Boldstart Ventures is a first check investor for enterprise founders. Partners Ed Sim and Eliot Durbin have over 50 years of combined experience leading seed rounds in LivePerson, GoToMeeting (sold to Citrix), and Greenplum (sold to EMC). Founded in 2010, BOLDstart has backed over 50 enterprise startups like BigID, Security Scorecard, Snyk.io, Kustomer, Catalytic, Divide (sold to Google), GoInstant (sold to salesforce), Blaze (sold to Akamai), and Rapportive (sold to LinkedIn). Read more @ FirstCheck.vc

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CrewAI

  • Board Member | Investor

    2024

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Clay

  • Investor

    2017

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Reco

  • Board Member | Investor

    2020

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Kustomer

  • Investor

    2015

Kustomer is an omnichannel Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) CRM platform specializing in customer service.

Raised $233,500,000.00 from Redpoint, Battery Ventures and boldstart ventures.

kustomer.com
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Snyk

  • Investor

    2015

Snyk is a cloud native application security provider that enables millions of developers to build software securely.

Raised $1,195,500,000.00 from ServiceNow.

snyk.io
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SecurityScorecard

  • Investor

    2013

SecurityScorecard is a cybersecurity platform used for predicting and remediating potential security risks.

Raised $292,200,000.00 from Kayne Anderson Rudnick (KAR), Accomplice, Riverwood Capital, Evolution Equity Partners, Google Ventures, T. Rowe Price, NGP Capital, The Syndicate Group, boldstart ventures and AXA Venture Partners.

securityscorecard.com
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Superhuman

  • Investor

    2014

    ed and I were the first investors and external users

Superhuman is a software platform that weaves social insights into a workflow.

Raised $108,000,000.00 from Drew Houston, Will Smith, Tiger Global Management, Jason Citron, Arianna Huffington, The Chainsmokers, Ashton Kutcher, Henrique Dubugras, Timothy Young and IVP.

superhuman.com
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Smallstep

  • Board Member | Investor

    2016

Smallstep is an open-source toolkit to automate certificate administration and secure infrastructures.

Raised $26,000,000.00 from boldstart ventures, Upside Partnership, Accel, Bain Capital Ventures and StepStone Group.

smallstep.com
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BigID

  • Investor

    2016

BigID is a data intelligence company that helps organizations discover, manage, and protect sensitive information.

Raised $306,099,999.00 from Riverwood Capital, Advent International and Silver Lake Waterman.

bigid.com

Education 

Investments 

Steadybit

Seed

Total funding: $14M

Zuplo

Seed

Total funding: $9M

Olympix

Seed

Total funding: $4M

UtilizeCore

Seed

Total funding: $23M

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