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
General 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
General 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.
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.
Monique Lupu
Platform Assistant
Monique keeps Heavybit's platform operations running smoothly, so that Heavybit's team and founders can get the most value out of our thriving resources and community.
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