The Seed 100: The Best Early-Stage Investors of 2021
Business Insider by Melia Russell, Michael Haley, Candy Cheng, and Margaux MacColl · · Article
"Robbins is the right investor to call in an emergency."
Business Insider named Jesse Robbins to its 2021 Seed 100, its ranking of the best early-stage venture investors, built with Tribe Capital. An investor in developer tools and infrastructure, his entry cited seed investments in Conjur, LaunchDarkly, and Zymergen. Robbins cofounded Chef and the DevOps movement.
Business Insider published the Seed 100 in April 2021. The list was built with Tribe Capital from data on roughly a thousand seed investors. Grateful to the founders, my partners at Heavybit, and everyone who made the work possible.
Also Mentioned
Since this came out…
- LaunchDarkly is nearing $200M in annual recurring revenue, with growth re-accelerating past 20% year over year as enterprises adopt its AI guardrails. More than a quarter of the Fortune 500 now run on it.
- 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.
- Zymergen went public on Nasdaq.
- Conjur was acquired by CyberArk. Its founders, Elizabeth Lawler and Kevin Gilpin, have gone on to start AppMap.
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Jesse Robbins Business Insider Awards Investor Rankings Venture Capital Seed Stage Investing Early-Stage Investing Developer Tools Heavybit Amazon Chef LaunchDarkly