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title: Mentions
description: Interviews, articles, podcasts, and talks featuring Jesse Robbins.
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last_updated: 2026-05-20
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# Mentions

Interviews, articles, podcasts, and talks featuring Jesse Robbins.

## [The Seed 100: The Best Early-Stage Investors of 2026](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/seed-100-businessinsider-2026.md)

*Business Insider · Article · 2026-05-18*

> I look for founders who want to build the operating system for entire industries. This requires extraordinary taste, grit, drive, and a vision for the future.

## [Call a savepoint](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/call-a-savepoint-ai-coding-compulsive-engagement-linkedin.md)

*LinkedIn · LinkedIn · 2026-05-07*

Working with AI engages the same dopamine machinery as slot machines. The hollow feeling at the end of a 2.3B-token week is the loop doing what loops like this do. The fix is a savepoint.

## [Musical AI Raises $4.5M: Jesse Robbins Joins Board](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/musical-ai-raises-4-5m-jesse-robbins-board-la-times.md)

*Los Angeles Times · Article · 2026-02-04*

Los Angeles Times follow-on coverage of Musical AI's $4.5M round led by Heavybit, with me joining the board to support attribution and rights-compliant generative music.

## [What I look for when I invest](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/what-vcs-look-for-ai-investment-founder-tips-market-size.md)

*Funded Podcast (airCFO) · Podcast · 2026-01-28*

On airCFO's Funded podcast I walked through how I evaluate companies at Heavybit, why market size is the first filter I apply, and how I read co-founder dynamics before I read the pitch.

## [Musical AI Bags $4.5M to Scale AI Attribution Tech: Jesse Robbins Joins Board](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/musical-ai-funding-round-mbw-jesse-robbins.md)

*Music Business Worldwide · Article · 2026-01-13*

Music Business Worldwide reported on Musical AI's $4.5M round led by Heavybit, with me joining the board to help scale AI attribution infrastructure.

## [Investing in Vibrant Labs: AI Agent Simulation Infrastructure](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/investing-in-vibrant-labs-ai-agent-simulation.md)

*Heavybit · Article · 2025-12-03*

Heavybit announcement of our investment in Vibrant Labs, which builds production-grade simulation and verifier-driven evaluation for long-horizon AI agents.

## [What Investors Look For in AI Startups: Builders with Taste](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/what-investors-look-for-ai-startups-shift.md)

*Shift Conference · Video · 2025-06-12*

At Shift Conference Miami 2025 I walked through what makes a developer-tools startup investable, why AI is still in the toil-automation phase, and where things are headed.

## [The Future of Dev Tools Is Autonomous: Engineers Will Become Fleet Generals](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/future-devtools-autonomous-fleet-generals-shiftmag.md)

*Shift Magazine · Article · 2025-05-22*

Shift Magazine surveys autonomous AI agents in developer workflows and quotes me from the Shift Miami panel on designing software for agents as much as humans.

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