Eliot Durbin

Eliot is a General Partner at boldstart and has been leading first rounds in enterprise startups for over a decade. He is most passionate about working with product focused founders going to market. Prior to boldstart, Eliot co founded Penny Black in 2008, a private investment firm in NYC investing across a broad range of sectors. He also previously founded Templates.com, an online software retailer, sold in late 2002 and worked at the Permal Group, a multi-billion dollar global fund of hedge funds (acquired by Legg Mason in 2006). Eliot is a graduate of Georgetown University with postgraduate study at Columbia University. He enjoys house music and most water sports (except for polo 😂). Fun facts: Favorite food: Joe’s pizza 🍕, lower east sideFavorite arcade game: Jurassic park pinball Favorite cartoon character: Harvey birdman 🐦Favorite music: scumfrog 🐸Favorite emoji: hand wave 👋 or high five 🙌