Community That Turns Visions Into Movements

Heavybit’s partnership, team, and community of technical founders and 1,000+ domain experts have an unequaled track record of helping launch and scale successful infrastructure startups.

Meet a Few Heavybit Advisors

Betty Junod
Betty JunodHeroku CMO & SVP, Salesforce
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Craig KerstiensProduct and Eng, Crunchy Data
Alyss Noland
Alyss NolandProduct Marketing, DGX Cloud, NVIDIA
Indy Sen
Indy SenEcosystem Marketing, Canva
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Melissa SmolenskyVP Marketing, Cloud Native Computing Foundation
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Edith HarbaughCo-Founder & Executive Chair
LaunchDarkly
Everybody at Heavybit is genuinely motivated to help you succeed and will do everything in their power to do that. It's tough starting a company, and it's really nice to have a cohort of people you can ask for advice and then help others in return.
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Guy PodjarnyCo-Founder & CEO
Snyk
Heavybit offered invaluable support on my startup journey, especially on developer-focused go-to-market strategy.
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Stephen BoakCo-Founder
Opsee
They're like a scalpel for developer companies compared to the blunt startup mallet of typical funds.
Simon Wistow
Simon WistowCo-Founder & VP of Strategic Initiatives
Fastly
These founders are building the best tools for developers, and Heavybit's community and team deeply understand the kind of support and go-to-market execution needed for this type of company.
Priyanka Sharma
Priyanka SharmaExecutive Director
Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Developer products, in particular those leveraging open source, have unique go-to-market challenges. Founders come to Heavybit because it is a veteran in the space and can help solve the complex problems devtools face.
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Brian LeRouxCo-Founder & CTO
Begin
We wanted operators, not advice you can read on Twitter. The Heavybit partners know our business at the atomic level.

Category Leaders

Since 2013, Heavybit companies have redefined how teams build, deploy, secure, and scale mission-critical technology. From JAMstack, to DevSecOps, to feature flagging, Heavybit founders build the future of software from the bottom up.

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Heavybit helped us navigate the uncharted waters of building a dev focused enterprise offering.
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Few investors understand what it means to create a developer category from scratch. Heavybit not only invested in Netlify as a company. They also helped to champion the Jamstack.
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The great thing about Heavybit is that they don't have a cookie-cutter approach. They've seen every type of developer tool business, and can help you with what's right for you at any given time.
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Matt McClureCo-Founder & Head of Developer Experience
Mux
Heavybit and their community of devtool founders have been a super power for us.
Adam Gross
Adam GrossInterim CEO
Vimeo
I'm a proud Heavybit alumni, investor, and advisor. When you find your people and you continue to learn from them, you want to reinvest into that community however you can. Heavybit is and always has been the only fund solely dedicated to helping and connecting devtool founders.
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Benjie De GrootCo-founder & CEO
Shipyard
Heavybit understands the importance that community plays in supporting technical founders. We've learned so much from connecting with other DevOps companies, and without a doubt, it has helped us move faster.

Previous DevGuild Speakers

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Guy PodjarnyCo-Founder & CEO, Snyk
Priyanka Sharma
Priyanka SharmaExecutive Director, Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Erin McKean
Erin McKeanDeveloper Relations Program Manager, Google
Ali Rayl
Ali RaylVP of Product, Slack
Abhinav Asthana
Abhinav AsthanaFounder/CEO, Postman
Brian Behlendorf
Brian BehlendorfCTO, OpenWallet Foundation, The Linux Foundation
Rajoshi Ghosh
Rajoshi GhoshCo-founder, COO, Hasura
Amanda Kleha
Amanda KlehaChief Customer Officer, Figma
Maarten Van Horenbeeck
Maarten Van HorenbeeckCISO, Zendesk
Joel Fulton
Joel FultonCISO, Splunk

Community Podcast Network

Heavybit's developer-focused podcast network features over 500 episodes from across our 20 shows. These uniquely insightful conversations have been heard almost 1 million times by listeners around the globe.

Heavybit Community Podcast Hosts

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Edith HarbaughCo-Founder & Executive Chair, LaunchDarkly
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Charity MajorsCTO, Honeycomb
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Liz Fong-JonesField CTO, Honeycomb
Brian Douglas
Brian DouglasHead of Developer Experience, Continue
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Grant MillerCo-Founder & CEO, Replicated

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