"Developer Tools"
Why Market Size Trumps Everything in VC Deals
Jesse Robbins breaks down what investors look for, why market potential is a critical filter, how co-founder dynamics predict failure, and what separates founders with real grit from those optimizing for pitch theater.
What Investors Look For in AI Startups: Builders with Taste
Jesse Robbins explains what he looks for in developer tool startups, why AI is still in the toil-automation phase, and why agentic experiences are just good developer experience by another name.
The Future of Dev Tools Is Autonomous: Engineers Will Become Fleet Generals
Shift Magazine surveys the rise of autonomous AI agents in developer workflows, quoting Jesse Robbins on designing software for agents, the open-source community reigniting joy in coding, and why collaboration with tools matters more than raw productivity.
Next in Tech Ep. 197: Data Pipelines for AI
Jesse Robbins makes the case that enterprise AI will be won not by whoever has the biggest model, but by whoever builds the best data pipeline, and that data infrastructure is having its own 'DevOps moment' right now.
“Data pipelines are having a DevOps moment, starting with a cultural and technical shift toward continuous integration and delivery.”
The Data Pipeline is the New Secret Sauce
Jesse Robbins on why data pipelines and inference are AI infrastructure's biggest unsolved challenges — and how enterprises move from first experiments to mature AI programs.
“The biggest challenge emerging is building and operating the infrastructure both for creating and running the data pipelines to build, manage, and maintain a robust, secure body of proprietary data.”
AI Investor Jesse Robbins on NYSE Floor Talk
Jesse Robbins discusses his operator-driven approach to investing in developer tools and AI-enabled infrastructure companies on NYSE Floor Talk, highlighting portfolio companies like PagerDuty, LaunchDarkly, Snyk, Tailscale, and Sanity.
“I am focused on investing in pre-seed and seed companies using AI to enable new ways of writing software, of managing and deploying the software and infrastructure that powers everything.”
Jesse Robbins Named One of the 30 Most Successful Early-Stage Startup Investors
Business Insider named Jesse Robbins one of the 30 most successful early-stage startup investors
Heavybit Welcomes New Member: Continue
Heavybit announces Continue, an open-source tool that brings LLM assistance directly into the IDE. Jesse Robbins on why the best AI developer tools meet engineers where they already work.
“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.”