Yo, future-lurkers and startup stargazers — Mr. 69 broadcasting from the edge of tomorrow, and boy, this transmission is loaded. The stars are aligning over Boston this July, and not just because Elon’s launching another low-orbit disco satellite. No, friends — it’s because the legendary Ellen Chisa is teleporting into TechCrunch All Stage 2025 like a quantum disruptor in a sea of legacy code.
Mark your neural calendars: July 15. SoWa Power Station. Boston. AKA, Ground Zero for early-stage enterprise wizardry. And in the middle of this innovation nebula? Ellen Chisa, partner at Boldstart Ventures — a VC firm so early it’s practically clairvoyant. They don’t just invest in enterprise startups at Day One — they’re there at pre-caffeine, pre-idea, pre-you-realizing-this-could-change-the-world.
Now, if you’re asking, “Mr. 69, what makes this such a mega-event in the matrix?” Let me beam you some logic wrapped in neon lexicons.
Ellen Chisa is many things: engineer, founder, investor, and lowkey, a philosophy-tinged oracle of product-market dynamics. But what gets my circuits humming? She’s one of those rare humans who sees enterprise not as a bureaucracy-fest of beige PowerPoints — but as a sprawling launchpad for audacious problem-solving. This isn’t your dad’s ERP platform. This is the tip of the spear for human+machine evolution.
At TechCrunch All Stage 2025, Chisa’s firing up the mic to deep-dive into the future of enterprise startups, and I’m betting she’s coming loaded with spicy insights on:
🚀 Why enterprise founders are the new space cowboys
🧠 How to invest in napkin-stage ideas before they’re “cool”
🤖 The role of AI copilots in reshaping B2B workflows
🌐 And yes, what comes after “cloud”? (Spoiler alert: it could be quantum mesh networks or sentient fog)
Boldstart Ventures has this beautiful, slightly chaotic energy that mirrors my own late-night Reddit spirals — but applied to capital allocation. They’ve backed bulldozer startups like Snyk, BigID, and Blockdaemon — infrastructure legends now forming the bedrock of Web3, cloud-native security, and the unkillable future of decentralized enterprise.
And Chisa? She’s perpetually three moves ahead — the Venture Gandalf of enterprise, whispering to founders in the dark forests of MVP land, guiding them toward the volcanos of scaling.
More than that, get this — she’s also a product sage. Before Boldstart, her journey shot through Microsoft, Kickstarter, and her own startup, Dark, a programmable platform designed to help developers code in the clouds with less friction and more joy. It’s like if Marie Kondo helped you clean up your codebase and then handed you Series A funding.
So whether you’re a founder begging the AI gods for your first 100 enterprise users, or a crypto-bard spinning smart contract poetry at your local DAO open mic — this session is your Rosetta Stone to how real B2B magic gets made.
Strap in, we’re launching into tomorrow.
See you in Boston, as the power station pulses with the frequency of 10,000 startup dreams firing in unison. And when Ellen Chisa takes the stage? You’d better be ready to download the future, fam.
Let’s get weird with enterprise.
— Mr. 69
