Capital & Candor
Heavybit is the domain authority on bottom-up developer companies. Our team-based structured approach helps founders turn visions into movements, products into platforms, and contributors into communities.
Partners
Tom Drummond
Managing Director
Tom is the managing director of Heavybit, and has more than 20 years of experience investing in developer-first enterprise infrastructure startups and helping them scale operations, finance, and GTM. He currently works with successful devtool startups such as Snyk, LaunchDarkly, Netlify, and CircleCI.
Joseph Ruscio
General Partner
Joe is a general partner at Heavybit. He uses his many years of experience in academia, startup management, and venture capital to help practitioner-first teams scale their go-to-market strategy and their organizations. At present, he works with successful startups such as Tailscale, Localstack, Groundcover, and Partnerpage.
Jesse Robbins
General Partner
Jesse is the co-founder of Chef and Orion Labs. He was the first chair of O’Reilly’s Velocity conference kickstarting the DevOps movement and served as Amazon’s original “Master of Disaster.” He is an avid dev community-builder and technical advisor and holds board positions with Sanity, Mobot, and others.
Dana Oshiro
Part-time Partner
Dana has 15+ years of experience helping technical founders go to market. She has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, and VentureBeat, and spoken at major industry events such as CES, TEDx, and SxSW. As an investor, she holds board positions with Yetto and Everfund.
James Lindenbaum
Founding Partner
James is the co-founder of Heroku and Heavybit. He established Heavybit as the only fund focused solely on developer company go-to-market. He is an astute advisor on developer product design, early GTM, and is a board member to Begin.
Rachel Chalmers
Part-Time Partner
Previously a research VP who led 451 Research’s infrastructure practice to discover the likes of VMWare, Cloudera, and Splunk, Rachel has deep experience in venture capital and launching startups, having worked with Merian Ventures, Ignition Partners, and Alchemist Accelerator as president and managing director. She joins Heavybit’s team as a part-time partner.
Operations
Andrea Echstenkamper
VP Marketing
Andrea is the VP of Marketing at Heavybit where she consults Heavybit portfolio and member companies and develops the Heavybit brand’s GTM.
Susie Singh
Chief Financial Officer
Susie is Heavybit's Chief Financial Officer, overseeing funding transactions, audits, reporting, and more.
Ted Carstensen
Platform Director
Ted manages Heavybit’s platform team and advisor network. He facilitates knowledge sharing across our community through the programming of speaker series, office hours, group sessions and Heavybit’s DevGuild conference series.
Mina Benothman
Growth Marketing Manager
Mina champions our reach, segmentation and activation efforts, and ensures that the right content is delivered to the right people at the right time.
Andrew Park
Editorial Lead
Andrew works on content and communications to support the Heavybit team and our portfolio of incredible startups.
Jenny Gyllenberg
Executive Assistant
Max Davis
Senior Accountant
Max is Heavybit's Senior Accountant. He supports the team by managing the day-to-day internal finances.
Jasmine Sunga
Platform Manager
Jasmine is the Platform Manager at Heavybit, overseeing the online community and founder portfolio.
Isabelle Smith
Events Coordinator
Isabelle is the Events Coordinator at Heavybit. She manages event execution from logistics to on-site operations, ensuring a seamless experience for attendees.
Pam Rosanio
Executive Assistant
Lulu
Director of Pawsitivity
Lulu is a two-year-old Golden Retriever who holds the prestigious title of Director of Pawsitivity. Whether she's bringing happiness to the team, providing emotional support, or simply offering a comforting nudge, Lulu is a beloved member of the squad.
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