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551 552</div></figure> 553 554 555 556<p class="wp-block-paragraph" id="a9fa">We added 3 team members:</p> 557 558 559 560<p class="wp-block-paragraph" id="ac23"><a href="https://boldstart.vc/team/ellen-chisa/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Ellen Chisa</a>, Founder-in-Residence and former co-founder of Dark</p> 561 562 563 564<p class="wp-block-paragraph" id="e5cd"><a href="https://boldstart.vc/team/ab-gupta/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Ab Gupta</a>, Operating Partner and former VP Strategy & Ops at Kustomer</p> 565 566 567 568<p class="wp-block-paragraph" id="070e"><a href="https://boldstart.vc/team/ernest-addison/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Ernest Addison</a>, Associate and formerly at Audax group.</p> 569 570 571 572<p class="wp-block-paragraph" id="66f6">And our portfolio continued to grow:</p> 573 574 575 576<ol class="wp-block-list"><li>? <strong>Day one lead/co-lead in 14 founding teams: </strong>(most still in stealth) representing ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??. Continued investments in developer first, SaaS, and crypto infrastructure companies.</li><li>? ? <strong>Day one to scale:</strong> Huge congrats on milestone valuations realized for dev first security company <a href="https://venturebeat.com/2021/09/30/salesforce-and-atlassian-double-down-on-developer-security-with-75m-snyk-investment/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Snyk</a> ($8.6B) and fellow security startups <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/22/with-30m-extension-bigid-boosts-series-d-to-100m-at-1-25b-valuation/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">BigID</a> ($1.25B) and <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-securityscorecard-funding/securityscorecard-raises-180-million-at-nearly-1-billion-valuation-idUSKBN2BA11M" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Security Scorecard</a> (almost ?), crypto infra startups <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-17/jpmorgan-unit-tiger-global-join-blockchain-firm-s-funding-round" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Blockdaemon</a> ($1.255B) and <a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/digital-asset-custody-firm-fireblocks-raises-400m-at-8-billion-valuation/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Fireblocks</a> ($8B, investment via <a href="https://twitter.com/mstatelabs" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">MStateLabs</a> our enterprise blockchain lab), and <a href="https://siliconangle.com/2021/12/07/market-research-startup-yipitdata-raises-funding-round-worth-475m/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">YipitData</a> (new ?).</li><li>? <strong>Day one to follow on funding: </strong>Over $1.7B in follow on funding for the portfolio including those above and <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2021/08/04/superhuman-raises-75-million-for-its-waitlist-only-email-productivity-app/?sh=4840f3ff4918" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Superhuman</a>, <a href="https://siliconangle.com/2021/07/27/replicated-raises-50-million-on-premises-software-delivery-tools/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Replicated</a>, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/20/dooly-raises-80m-more-for-its-ai-tools-to-help-salespeople-manage-their-busywork/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Dooly</a>, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/24/env0-lands-17m-series-a-as-infrastrucure-as-code-control-plane-gains-traction/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Env0</a>, <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210727005361/en/Spectro-Cloud-Announces-20M-Completion-of-Series-A-Funding-to-Unleash-Full-Potential-of-Kubernetes-in-Production-Environments-with-Next-Gen-Management-Platform" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">SpectroCloud</a>, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/20/cape-privacy-announces-20m-series-a-to-help-companies-securely-share-data/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Cape Privacy</a>, <a href="https://venturebeat.com/2021/04/20/hypr-raises-35m-to-grow-its-passwordless-authentication-platform/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Hypr</a>, and 3 others which closed new rounds but will announce early 2022.</li><li>?? <strong>Day one to exi</strong>t: Huge congrats to <a href="https://twitter.com/edsim/status/1474050376290734087?s=20" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">FortressIQ</a> on its sale to Automation Anywhere. We are ?? to have partnered since day one as FortressIQ created the market for process discovery and automation and scaled to dozens of enterprise customers.</li><li>? ï¸<strong>From idea to product launch:</strong> New company launches out of stealth include developer first startups <a href="https://www.jit.io/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Jit Security</a> (orchestration for dev first security), <a href="http://slim.ai/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Slim</a> (container optimization), <a href="http://atomicjar.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Atomic Jar</a> (integration testing shifted ⬠ï¸), <a href="http://cloudquery.io/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Cloudquery</a> (OSS cloud asset inventory SQL), <a href="http://codesee.io/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">
576CodeSee</a> (code visualization), <a href="http://liveblocks.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Liveblocks</a> (API for collaboration), and SaaS co<a href="http://utilizecore.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank"> UtilizeCore</a> (service mgmt automation).</li><li>??â? <strong>More amazing angels/advisors added to the boldstart family:</strong> We continued doubling down on our enterprise angel/advisor network bringing diversity and some of the best builders and doers in product, engineering, and sales to help our founders accelerate their path to product market fit with <strong>folks from Airtable, Notion, Twilio, UiPath,Tableau, Elastic, Coinbase, Hashicorp, and moreâ¦</strong></li></ol> 577 578 579 580<p class="wp-block-paragraph"></p> 581 582 583 584<h1 class="wp-block-heading" id="005d">Whatâs ? in Enterprise 2022</h1> 585 586 587 588<figure class="wp-block-image"><img data-recalc-dims="1" decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/miro.medium.com/max/1400/1%2AWtYmcVVETgXPF8TuLBAH-g.jpeg?w=1080&ssl=1" alt=""/></figure> 589 590 591 592<ol class="wp-block-list"><li>The next big thing in 2022 is blockchain is the new âdev toolâ as many long time enterprise founders rush to explore and build newcos in crypto infra and enterprise investors fund any company with âenterprise + crypto.â Despite the number of companies that donât make it, there will be a handful of foundational companies started in 2022 that will create returns that far exceed the money lost.</li><li>VC funding will hit another record year in 2022 but donât be fooled as while the total will be higher than 2021, the numbers will be skewed towards the perceived highest quality and fastest growing companies. In 2022, there will continue to be separation from the haves and have nots and this further increases the importance for funding outstanding and dynamic management teams who are also recruiting machines.</li><li>Rise of orphaned companies â Speed bumps will surface for overcapitalized companies who raised too much ? too early and who tried to stay on the trajectory of super fast growth to be one of the top companies but fell short â lots of pain will surface in 2022 from these companies that overspent and donât have much to show for it.</li><li>A number of open source projects will become a DAOs (decentralized autonomous organization) instead of pursuing the classic venture backed model.</li></ol> 593 594 595 596<p class="wp-block-paragraph" id="a4b2">If youâre interested in staying on top of current trends on a weekly basis, please <a href="https://whatshot.substack.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">subscribe to my substack</a>, Whatâs ? in Enterprise IT/VC.</p> 597 598 599 600<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img data-recalc-dims="1" decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/miro.medium.com/max/900/1%2ABhca_BKFc1CIixRcVWvziA.gif?resize=642%2C371&ssl=1" alt="" width="642" height="371"/></figure></div> 601 602 603 604<p class="wp-block-paragraph" id="6d36">?? again for all of your support, and hereâs to a healthy and prosperous 2022!</p> 605<div class="sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled"><div class="robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing"><h3 class="sd-title">Share this:</h3><div class="sd-content"><ul><li class="share-twitter"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 606 data-shared="sharing-twitter-2050" 607 class="share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text" 608 href="https://www.beyondvc.com/boldstart-2021-recap-whats-%f0%9f%94%a5-in-enterprise-2022/?share=twitter" 609 target="_blank" 610 aria-labelledby="sharing-twitter-2050" 611 > 612 <span id="sharing-twitter-2050" hidden>Share on X (Opens in new window)</span> 613 <span>X</span> 614 </a></li><li class="share-linkedin"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 615 data-shared="sharing-linkedin-2050" 616 class="share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text" 617 href="https://www.beyondvc.com/boldstart-2021-recap-whats-%f0%9f%94%a5-in-enterprise-2022/?share=linkedin" 618 target="_blank" 619 aria-labelledby="sharing-linkedin-2050" 620 > 621 <span id="sharing-linkedin-2050" hidden>Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)</span> 622 <span>LinkedIn</span> 623 </a></li><li class="share-reddit"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 624 data-shared="sharing-reddit-2050" 625 class="share-reddit sd-button share-icon no-text" 626 href="https://www.beyondvc.com/boldstart-2021-recap-whats-%f0%9f%94%a5-in-enterprise-2022/?share=reddit" 627 target="_blank" 628 aria-labelledby="sharing-reddit-2050" 629 > 630 <span id="sharing-reddit-2050" hidden>Share on Reddit (Opens in new window)</span> 631 <span>Reddit</span> 632 </a></li><li class="share-facebook"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 633 data-shared="sharing-facebook-2050" 634 class="share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text" 635 href="https://www.beyondvc.com/boldstart-2021-recap-whats-%f0%9f%94%a5-in-enterprise-2022/?share=facebook" 636 target="_blank" 637 aria-labelledby="sharing-facebook-2050" 638 > 639 <span id="sharing-facebook-2050" hidden>Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)</span> 640 <span>Facebook</span> 641 </a></li><li class="share-email"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 642 data-shared="sharing-email-2050" 643 class="share-email sd-button share-icon no-text" 644 href="mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20boldstart%202021%20recap%20%26%20what%E2%80%99s%20%3F%20in%20enterprise%202022&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.beyondvc.com%2Fboldstart-2021-recap-whats-%25f0%259f%2594%25a5-in-enterprise-2022%2F&share=email" 645 target="_blank" 646 aria-labelledby="sharing-email-2050"
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715<script id="sharing-js-js-extra"> 716var sharing_js_options = {"lang":"en","counts":"1","is_stats_active":"1"}; 717//# sourceURL=sharing-js-js-extra 718</script>
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719<script id="sharing-js-js" src="https://c0.wp.com/p/jetpack/16.2/_inc/build/sharedaddy/sharing.min.js"></script>
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720<script id="sharing-js-js-after"> 721window.WPCOM_sharing_popups = window.WPCOM_sharing_popups || {}; 722window.WPCOM_sharing_popups[ "twitter" ] = "menubar=1,resizable=1,width=600,height=350"; 723window.WPCOM_sharing_popups = window.WPCOM_sharing_popups || {}; 724window.WPCOM_sharing_popups[ "linkedin" ] = "menubar=1,resizable=1,width=580,height=450"; 725window.WPCOM_sharing_popups = window.WPCOM_sharing_popups || {}; 726window.WPCOM_sharing_popups[ "facebook" ] = "menubar=1,resizable=1,width=600,height=400"; 727//# sourceURL=sharing-js-js-after 728</script>
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729<script id="wp-emoji-settings" type="application/json"> 730{"baseUrl":"https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/","ext":".png","svgUrl":"https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/","svgExt":".svg","source":{"concatemoji":"https://www.beyondvc.com/wp-includes/js/wp-emoji-release.min.js?ver=7.1.2"}} 731</script>
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Line numbers count LF bytes from the start of the resource, as the search results do. Vendor segments are library code the classifier recognised; they are stored but not indexed. Bytes are shown as Latin1 characters, one per byte.