Eliot Durbin (@etdurbin) — Twitter Score 31 out of 1000

Eliot Durbin is a General Partner and co-founder of Boldstart Ventures, a seed-stage firm focused on inception-stage enterprise, infrastructure, and crypto companies. Eliot Durbin's Twitter Score is 31 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #31,584 (top 10%) among 487,142 tracked accounts.

Eliot Durbin co-founded Boldstart Ventures alongside Ed Sim, launching the firm's seed fund with a $1 million initial fund. The firm has since grown through multiple funds, with Fund VII closing in 2025 and targeting sectors including crypto, AI infrastructure, and cybersecurity. Eliot Durbin also co-founded Penny Black and previously founded Templates.com, an online software retailer that was sold in late 2002.

Eliot Durbin has written that Boldstart Ventures' crypto-infrastructure investing traces back to a payments company investment made in 2014, later broadening to cover blockchain infrastructure, staking, and DAO tooling. The firm describes itself as a day-one partner for developer-first, crypto-infrastructure, and SaaS founders. Before co-founding Boldstart, Eliot Durbin previously worked at Permal Group, a global fund of hedge funds that was later acquired by Legg Mason. Eliot Durbin's account has published 1,729 posts and has 4,759 followers as of September 2026, and has been mentioned by 39 accounts a total of 174 times.

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