Bolster is an on-demand executive talent marketplace that helps accelerate companies’ growth by connecting them with experienced, highly vetted executives for interim, fractional, advisory, project-based, or board roles. Bolster also provides on-demand executives with software and services to help them manage their careers as independent consultants and provides startup and scaleup CEOs with software and content to help them assess, benchmark, and diversify their leadership teams and boards.
Location: United States, New York
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $11M
Founded date: 2020
Investors 4
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Foundry Gr... | foundrygro... |
| - | Costanoa V... | costanoa.v... |
| - | Foundry | foundry.vc |
| 10.09.2020 | UNION SQUA... | usv.com/ |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 11.01.2022 | Series B | $11M | - |
Mentions in press and media 10
| Date | Title | Description |
| 28.08.2023 | CEO 360s | I’ve written about this topic before. It is an important topic and I want to raise it again. Boards often discuss CEO performance without really knowing how things work inside the company. And CEOs often have very little visibility to how t... |
| 08.08.2023 | Bolster Expands Services with Full-Time Executive Search Offerings | Bolster's full-time executive search services offer clients a tailored experience based on the levels of strategic and tactical support required to best fit their needs and capacity in alignment with their timeline and budget. NEW YORK (PRW... |
| 14.12.2022 | Bolster Partners with Techstars to Transform Early-Stage Startups through Unique Access to Experienced Leaders | NEW YORK (PRWEB) December 14, 2022 Bolster and Techstars, a global investment business that provides access to capital, one-on-one mentorship and programming for early-stage entrepreneurs, announce they are joining forces to provide exclusi... |
| 11.01.2022 | Bolster Raises $11M Series B Financing to Harness the Future of Work Through On-Demand Executive Talent | Bolster raises $11M Series B financing to harness the future of work through on-demand executive talent. “Foundry runs as a network and loves investing in networks. In its short time, Bolster has already created an enormous amount of value ... |
| 11.01.2022 | Bolster Raises $11M Series B Financing to Harness the Future of Work Through On-Demand Executive Talent | NEW YORK, Jan. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Bolster, the marketplace for on-demand executive talent, announced today its Series B financing of $11 million to harness the forces driving the future of work for executives and venture-backed ... |
| 22.04.2021 | The Bolster Board Diversity Survey | Last June, I wrote about board diversity and suggested some things we are doing and that you can do to diversity your board. In the ten months that have passed since I wrote that I am pleased to say that we have seen a noticeable increase i... |
| 09.09.2020 | Bolster Your Management Team And Board | I have had the great pleasure of working with Matt Blumberg and the senior leadership team of USV’s former portfolio company Return Path (which was sold in 2019) for much of the last twenty years. Matt and and many members of his leadership... |
| 09.09.2020 | Bolster Your Management Team And Board | I have had the great pleasure of working with Matt Blumberg and the senior leadership team of USV’s former portfolio company Return Path (which was sold in 2019) for much of the last twenty years. Matt and many members of his leadership tea... |
| - | Bolster | “Welcome to Bolster, the on-demand executive talent marketplace. We are creating a platform that is the new way to scale an executive team and board.” |
| - | SVB collapse is double-whammy for tech startups already navigating brutal market | Startup CEOs across the U.S. were already cutting costs and preserving cash before Silicon Valley Bank’s failure created additional headaches. Exit activity for venture-backed startups in the fourth quarter plunged more than 90% from a year... |