Jesse Robbins serves as a General Partner at Heavybit, where he joined in 2022 after advising since 2014. See portfolio and contact routes.
Jesse Robbins serves as a General Partner at Heavybit, where he joined in 2022 after advising since 2014, leveraging his background as the founding CEO of Chef Software and Amazon’s original “Master of Disaster” in chaos engineering [2][3]. His investment thesis targets early-stage startups in developer tools, cloud infrastructure, and AI/ML, primarily within the San Francisco ecosystem and broader US market [4][6]. Robbins typically writes checks ranging from $500,000 to $5 million across pre-seed through Series A rounds, often participating as a lead or significant follow investor [8]. Notable portfolio companies include Kubiya, Continue, Tailscale, and Sanity, for which he holds board or advisory roles [2][10]. He has invested in more than 60 startups, focusing heavily on those reinventing developer tools and infrastructure [9]. Robbins is distinguished by his public advocacy for chaos engineering and the DevOps movement, having chaired O’Reilly’s Velocity conference and coined the term “Master of Disaster” [3][13].
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