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- Why does Jesse Robbins invest in AI developer tools?
Jesse Robbins invests in AI developer tools because AI agents are just another kind of developer. His portfolio in the category includes Continue and Mstone.
- What is Jesse Robbins known for?
Jesse Robbins is an early-stage investor in AI developer tools and infrastructure who has invested in and advised over sixty companies including PagerDuty, Fastly, and Tailscale. He cofounded Chef, created chaos engineering at Amazon, and cofounded the DevOps movement.
- What is Jesse Robbins' investment thesis?
Jesse Robbins looks for founders who want to build the operating system for entire industries. He invests at the seed and early stage in AI developer tools and infrastructure. He has invested in and advised over sixty companies.
- What companies has Jesse Robbins invested in?
Jesse Robbins has invested in and advised over sixty companies. Eighteen are valued at $500M or more: five IPOs (PagerDuty, Instacart, Fastly) and thirteen private companies including Figure AI, Shield AI, Sanity, LaunchDarkly, and Tailscale.
- What does 'delegation is the new automation' mean?
"Delegation is the new automation" is Jesse Robbins' thesis for the AI era. The DevOps revolution moved computing from manual to automated. AI agents are moving it from automated to delegated, handling complex workflows with judgment.
Articles and mentions
Musical AI Raises $4.5M: Jesse Robbins Joins Board
Los Angeles Times follow-on coverage of Musical AI's $4.5M round led by Heavybit, with me joining the board. The piece frames Musical AI as rights-aware infrastructure for generative music.
Musical AI Bags $4.5M to Scale AI Attribution Tech: Jesse Robbins Joins Board
Music Business Worldwide broke Musical AI's $4.5M round, led by Heavybit, with me joining the board. The piece covers what Musical AI is building and why attribution matters for generative music.
“Musical AI's attribution technology is essential infrastructure that will enable and accelerate every media-focused AI product.”
Heavybit Welcomes New Member: Continue
Heavybit's announcement when Continue joined the portfolio, an open-source tool that brings LLM assistance directly into the IDE.
“I'm excited to welcome our newest portfolio company, Continue, which gives software engineers the power to streamline their development process using large language models (LLMs) and hit flow state faster and longer.”