Primary Job Title General Partner Primary Organization Heavybit
Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
Investor Type Investor Stage Number of Exits
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Jesse Robbins invests at the seed stage in AI developer tools and infrastructure, in founders turning startups into industry operating systems. He has backed and advised over 60 companies. His thesis: AI is the next great abstraction, and the teams shipping agents to production hit the same operational walls he hit shipping web services twenty
years ago. Agents need context, guardrails, observability, and real developer experience. The systems that make that work look like infrastructure, not models, and he invests in the companies building it.
He came to investing as a founder. He cofounded Chef, the infrastructure automation company adopted by Facebook, Google, Apple, and IBM, grew it to $75M in revenue, and sold it to Progress Software. He cofounded the DevOps movement through the O'Reilly Velocity Conference. At Amazon he was "Master of Disaster," responsible for the availability of every property bearing the Amazon brand, where he built GameDay and three connected practices as one body of work: modern Incident Management, and what the industry now calls Site Reliability Engineering and Chaos Engineering.
