Eliot Durbin

Eliot Durbin

VC

General Partner, boldstart ventures

Product-focused enterprise inception investor

New York, NY
Pre-SeedSeed
Enterprise SaaSDeveloper ToolsSecurityAIInfrastructure

Background

Eliot Durbin is a General Partner at boldstart ventures with over a decade of experience leading first rounds in enterprise startups. He is passionate about working with product-focused founders going to market. Before boldstart, he co-founded Penny Black in 2008, a private investment firm, and founded Templates.com (sold in 2002). He also worked at the Permal Group, a multi-billion dollar hedge fund of funds. He holds a degree from Georgetown University with postgraduate study at Columbia University.

Investment Focus

Stages

Pre-SeedSeed

Sectors

Enterprise SaaSDeveloper ToolsSecurityAIInfrastructure

Based in: New York, NY (North America)

Last updated: Jun 11, 2026