"Seed Stage Investing"
Articles and mentions
The Seed 100: The Best Early-Stage Investors of 2026
“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.”
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.”
Investing in Vibrant Labs: AI Agent Simulation Infrastructure
Heavybit announcement of our investment in Vibrant Labs, which builds production-grade simulation and verifier-driven evaluation for long-horizon AI agents.
“Vibrant Labs opens a new frontier in AI infrastructure: production-grade, RL-ready simulation and verifier-driven evaluation built for long-horizon agents.”
AI Investor Jesse Robbins on NYSE Floor Talk
On NYSE Floor Talk, August 2024: a short statement of what I invest in now, AI-powered developer tools and infrastructure at the pre-seed and seed stage.
“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 me to its 2024 list of 30 most successful early-stage investors.
The Seed 100: The Best Early-Stage Investors of 2021
Business Insider named me to the 2021 Seed 100, a list of early-stage investors built with Tribe Capital.
“Robbins is the right investor to call in an emergency.”
Building Companies that Devs & DevOps Teams Love, And Avoiding Expensive Mistakes
Heavybit talk on the expensive mistakes developer-tools founders make, drawn from the ones I made building Chef from open source into an enterprise infrastructure company.