Jesse Robbins
General Partner at Heavybit
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2022 - Current
Part-Time Partner
2013 - 2022
I advise, support, and invest in world class Developer Tools & Infrastructure startups as an investing partner at Heavybit.
Heavybit is the leading investor in dev-first companies with an unrivaled track record helping technical founders achieve breakout success.
Investor & Board Member
2019
Sanity is a platform for structured content that lets teams build digital experiences.
Raised $50,700,000.00 from Shopify.
Board Member & Investor
2023
The leading open-source AI code assistant
Raised $2,100,000.00 from Lisha Li, Julien Chaumond, Florian Leibert, Heavybit and Y Combinator.
Investor and Board Member
2025
Investor & Advisor
2019
Investor & Board Member
2021
Memgraph is the high-performance, open source graph database built for AI-native workloads — GraphRAG, hybrid vector search, real-time reasoning, and beyond. Written in C++, it delivers ultra-low latency for production systems where milliseconds matter.
Investor & Advisor
2015
LaunchDarkly is a feature management platform that allows software development teams to deliver to their customers.
Raised $330,300,000.00 from Redpoint, Heavybit, Insight Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Uncork Capital, Top Tier Capital Partners, Threshold, Lead Edge Capital and Bloomberg Beta.
Investor & Board Member
2022
Mobot is a QA-as-a-service platform using real mechanical robots to automate testing on real mobile devices.
Raised $17,750,000.00 from Primary Venture Partners, Cota Capital, Heavybit, Bling Capital, MPG Fund and Uncorrelated Ventures.
Investor & Advisor
2021
Investor & Advisor
2021