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The Seed 100: The Best Early-Stage Investors of 2026

Business Insider named Jesse Robbins to its 2026 Seed 100, its annual ranking of the best early-stage venture investors. Robbins invests in AI developer tools and infrastructure, with recent investments including Figure AI, Shield AI, Instacart, and Fastly. He cofounded Chef and the DevOps movement.

“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.”

The Data Pipeline is the New Secret Sauce

I wrote this at Heavybit in September 2024. The argument: the data pipeline is the differentiating asset in enterprise AI. Includes four inference hosting models and four enterprise maturity phases.

“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.”

Generative AI in DevOps and Incident Response: What the Experts Actually Think

I interviewed Nora Jones, Jeremy Edberg, Mandi Walls, and Brent Chapman on what generative AI actually does in incident response, and where humans have to stay in the loop.

“GenAI is good at confidently delivering text that is pleasant to read, but not always complete, or correct.”

The Seed 100: The Best Early-Stage Investors of 2021

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.

“Robbins is the right investor to call in an emergency.”

A Developer's View Into Blockchain Network Architecture

I joined a Blockdaemon panel at Heavybit with Brian Behlendorf, Jed McCaleb, and Jake Craige to look at blockchain infrastructure through a developer-tools lens.