Heavybit

Investor type

VC / Angel

Founded

2013

AUM

-

Location

San Francisco, California, United States

Investment Ticket

$1-5 m

Investment Stage

Pre-seed Seed Series A

Region of investment

Asia Europe South America North America Australia and others
Investor profile last updated: 18 August, 2026

Profile

Heavybit is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2013. The firm specializes in early-stage investments in enterprise infrastructure, focusing on areas such as DevSecOps, feature flagging, and AI-powered development tools. Heavybit's team consists of domain experts who provide hands-on, strategic support to startups, helping them scale from inception to Series A.

Heavybit invests in technical startups with unique ideas, offering check sizes ranging from $500K to $5M. The firm focuses on sectors like AI, cybersecurity, and data services, and invests globally, including in the USA, Canada, Asia-Pacific, India, Europe, and Latin America. Heavybit has launched over 90 startups and is known for its tailored mentorship and operational support.

Notable portfolio companies include Tailscale - secure networking, LaunchDarkly - feature management, PagerDuty - incident response, Snyk - security, and Sanity - content platform. These companies have defined categories and changed how teams build, deploy, secure, and scale enterprise technology.

Industry

AdTech LegalTech Telecommunications Robotics Other Media and Entertainment Marketing and Advertising Gaming Financial Services Transportation Software Security Internet and Web Services Fintech AI Cybersecurity Developer Tools Data infra

Contacts

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Dana Oshiro General Partner
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Jesse Robbins Venture Partner
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FAQs about Heavybit

Heavybit is a venture capital firm that also operates as an angel investor. It backs companies at Pre-seed, Seed and Series A, writing tickets of $1-5 m.
Heavybit is located in San Francisco, California, United States.
Heavybit was founded in 2013.
Heavybit invests in companies and startups in AdTech, LegalTech, Telecommunications, Robotics, Other, Media and Entertainment, Marketing and Advertising, Gaming, Financial Services, Transportation, Software, Security, Internet and Web Services, Fintech, AI, Cybersecurity, Developer Tools, Data infra.
Heavybit invests in companies and startups in Asia, Europe, South America, North America, Australia and others.
Heavybit invests in companies and startups at Pre-seed, Seed, Series A.
Heavybit usually invests $1-5 m on average.
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