Jesse Robbins Named One of the 30 Most Successful Early-Stage Startup Investors
Business Insider by Ben Bergman, Samantha Stokes, Rebecca Torrence, and Leena Rao · · Article
Business Insider named Jesse Robbins one of the 30 most successful early-stage startup investors of 2024. An investor in developer tools and infrastructure, his entry cited investments in Fastly, PagerDuty, LaunchDarkly, and CircleCI. Robbins cofounded Chef and the DevOps movement.
Business Insider published the list in January 2024. Grateful to the founders, my partners at Heavybit, and everyone who made the work possible.
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- My friend Edith Harbaugh returned as CEO of LaunchDarkly, the company she cofounded. By then it had made the Forbes Cloud 100 several years running and joined the 2025 Inc. 5000 of fastest-growing private companies in America.