Heavybit

Heavybit, established in 2012 and based in San Francisco, is a venture capital firm specializing in early and later-stage investments in software companies. It focuses on developer tools, cloud-native infrastructure, and open-source sectors. The firm's success lies in its unique approach of partnering with technical founders and leveraging a community of over 600 domain experts to nurture developer-first startups.

Rachel Chalmers

Part-time Partner

Tom Drummond

Co-Founder and Managing Director

James Lindenbaum

Co-Founder and General Partner

Jesse Robbins

General Partner

Joseph Ruscio

General Partner

Past deals in Developer Tools

Groundcover

Series B in 2025
Groundcover is a developer of an innovative application monitoring solution that utilizes eBPF technology to enhance monitoring in modern production environments. The platform offers robust tools for visualizing metrics, logs, and traces from various sources, enabling teams to create detailed dashboards that simplify the analysis of complex data. Groundcover's system is designed to operate in production settings, providing a zero-code facility that allows flexibility and direct access to all application logs, metrics, and traces. This capability facilitates the effective monitoring and management of cloud applications, making it easier for organizations to ensure their systems run smoothly and efficiently.

Kosli

Series A in 2025
Kosli is a developer of a cloud-based change management platform designed for compliance automation within software development pipelines. The platform streamlines the change management process, reducing lead times for operations while providing immutable records for every modification made. This enables clients to effectively define, implement, and enhance their threat mitigation strategies and audit trails. By automating compliance bottlenecks, Kosli enhances the speed and security of the software delivery process, ensuring that organizations remain compliant and audit-ready at scale.

LocalStack

Series A in 2024
LocalStack is the leading cloud development platform for building cloud and serverless apps offline.

Userfront

Seed Round in 2024
Userfront is a company that specializes in creating an authentication and authorization platform aimed at enhancing security infrastructure for online applications. The platform focuses on providing secure, standards-based authentication solutions that prioritize ease of setup, testing, and administration. With a comprehensive dashboard for managing users and authorization, Userfront enables clients to seamlessly integrate modern authentication and access control measures, ensuring the protection of their digital environments. The company's tools connect users to applications and AI tools while maintaining compliance with contemporary security standards.

Continue

Seed Round in 2023
Continue is a developer of an open-source AI code assistant designed for integration with Visual Studio Code and JetBrains. The company's innovative code extension harnesses the capabilities of advanced AI technology to assist developers by generating, refactoring, and explaining sections of code. This tool is not only deeply customizable but also continuously learns from the development data it processes. By creating modular AI software development systems, Continue enhances the coding experience, allowing users to improve their productivity and the quality of their code over time.

Kosli

Seed Round in 2022
Kosli is a developer of a cloud-based change management platform designed for compliance automation within software development pipelines. The platform streamlines the change management process, reducing lead times for operations while providing immutable records for every modification made. This enables clients to effectively define, implement, and enhance their threat mitigation strategies and audit trails. By automating compliance bottlenecks, Kosli enhances the speed and security of the software delivery process, ensuring that organizations remain compliant and audit-ready at scale.

Groundcover

Series A in 2022
Groundcover is a developer of an innovative application monitoring solution that utilizes eBPF technology to enhance monitoring in modern production environments. The platform offers robust tools for visualizing metrics, logs, and traces from various sources, enabling teams to create detailed dashboards that simplify the analysis of complex data. Groundcover's system is designed to operate in production settings, providing a zero-code facility that allows flexibility and direct access to all application logs, metrics, and traces. This capability facilitates the effective monitoring and management of cloud applications, making it easier for organizations to ensure their systems run smoothly and efficiently.

Groundcover

Series A in 2022
Groundcover is a developer of an innovative application monitoring solution that utilizes eBPF technology to enhance monitoring in modern production environments. The platform offers robust tools for visualizing metrics, logs, and traces from various sources, enabling teams to create detailed dashboards that simplify the analysis of complex data. Groundcover's system is designed to operate in production settings, providing a zero-code facility that allows flexibility and direct access to all application logs, metrics, and traces. This capability facilitates the effective monitoring and management of cloud applications, making it easier for organizations to ensure their systems run smoothly and efficiently.

Apollo GraphQL

Series D in 2021
Apollo GraphQL helps developers help the world by providing a better API platform across teams. Apollo’s open-source software is downloaded 25M times per month and its commercial GraphQL technologies power the most innovative brands today. Teams at Netflix, Snap, and the New York Times ship personalized, omnichannel experiences faster with a supergraph – a self-service GraphQL platform that spans any number of backend services. Serving over 5T requests in 2023, the Apollo GraphOS platform simplifies API development with workflows and infrastructure to build, test, and ship supergraphs at any scale. Based in San Francisco, Apollo is backed by Insight Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, and Trinity Ventures. Learn more at: https://www.apollographql.com.

LaunchDarkly

Series D in 2021
LaunchDarkly is a software company that provides a feature management platform designed to enhance collaboration between development teams and business stakeholders. Its core product enables DevOps teams to safely deploy new features incrementally, targeting specific user segments across various platforms. This controlled rollout process facilitates standardized releases at scale, accelerates cloud migration, and improves overall software delivery efficiency.

Metrist

Seed Round in 2021
Metrist is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that specializes in monitoring the performance and availability of cloud applications and APIs. Its platform provides real-time visibility into the functionality of these services, ensuring that application developers and users can understand the impact of external services on their operations. The software features actionable data and service level agreement (SLA) reporting, which helps businesses optimize customer experiences. Additionally, Metrist offers an infrastructure that supports embedded analytics, payment processing, and user identity management, facilitating a comprehensive approach to application performance monitoring.

Sanity

Series B in 2021
Sanity AS is a Norwegian company that specializes in developing a content platform designed for software developers and content creators. Established in 2017 and headquartered in Oslo, with an additional office in San Francisco, Sanity provides tools that facilitate real-time collaboration, live multi-user editing, and change tracking. By treating content as structured data, the platform enables teams to build efficient editing workflows and seamlessly share content across various applications and channels, such as e-commerce sites, mobile applications, and marketing platforms. Sanity's technology leverages APIs, including GraphQL and JavaScript, allowing users to define their data models and customize their content usage. The company aims to enhance digital experiences by empowering organizations to articulate, collaborate, and distribute content effectively.

Blockdaemon

Series A in 2021
Blockdaemon Inc. is a blockchain node management platform that enables businesses, enterprises, and developers to efficiently deploy and manage blockchain applications. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with additional offices in New York and Ireland, the company provides tools that allow users to manage nodes across more than 30 blockchain protocols, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Polkadot. Blockdaemon's solution is designed to be fully portable, enabling users to easily switch between networks and chains without the need for extensive configuration. The company also supports the blockchain developer ecosystem by offering expert dev-ops advice, facilitating smoother integration and deployment in the rapidly evolving blockchain landscape.

LocalStack

Seed Round in 2021
LocalStack is the leading cloud development platform for building cloud and serverless apps offline.

Sanity

Series A in 2020
Sanity AS is a Norwegian company that specializes in developing a content platform designed for software developers and content creators. Established in 2017 and headquartered in Oslo, with an additional office in San Francisco, Sanity provides tools that facilitate real-time collaboration, live multi-user editing, and change tracking. By treating content as structured data, the platform enables teams to build efficient editing workflows and seamlessly share content across various applications and channels, such as e-commerce sites, mobile applications, and marketing platforms. Sanity's technology leverages APIs, including GraphQL and JavaScript, allowing users to define their data models and customize their content usage. The company aims to enhance digital experiences by empowering organizations to articulate, collaborate, and distribute content effectively.

Shipyard

Seed Round in 2020
Shipyard is an orchestration platform for the modern data stack.

Avo

Seed Round in 2020
Avo develops software aimed at enhancing the accuracy of product analytics by preventing human errors during implementation. The company's platform provides tools for defining event-based analytics and generating customized tracking libraries. These tools serve as a validation mechanism for developers, ensuring that analytics are correctly implemented according to design specifications. By functioning like a spell-checker for data quality and a type-checker for developers, Avo enables users to confidently track and analyze data while minimizing the risk of mistakes in their analytics processes.

Blockdaemon

Venture Round in 2020
Blockdaemon Inc. is a blockchain node management platform that enables businesses, enterprises, and developers to efficiently deploy and manage blockchain applications. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with additional offices in New York and Ireland, the company provides tools that allow users to manage nodes across more than 30 blockchain protocols, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Polkadot. Blockdaemon's solution is designed to be fully portable, enabling users to easily switch between networks and chains without the need for extensive configuration. The company also supports the blockchain developer ecosystem by offering expert dev-ops advice, facilitating smoother integration and deployment in the rapidly evolving blockchain landscape.

Sanity

Seed Round in 2019
Sanity AS is a Norwegian company that specializes in developing a content platform designed for software developers and content creators. Established in 2017 and headquartered in Oslo, with an additional office in San Francisco, Sanity provides tools that facilitate real-time collaboration, live multi-user editing, and change tracking. By treating content as structured data, the platform enables teams to build efficient editing workflows and seamlessly share content across various applications and channels, such as e-commerce sites, mobile applications, and marketing platforms. Sanity's technology leverages APIs, including GraphQL and JavaScript, allowing users to define their data models and customize their content usage. The company aims to enhance digital experiences by empowering organizations to articulate, collaborate, and distribute content effectively.

CircleCI

Series D in 2019
CircleCI is a provider of a continuous integration and delivery platform that assists software teams in efficiently releasing code by automating the processes of building, testing, and deploying applications. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company enables developers to quickly ramp up and scale their operations while maintaining high-quality output. As applications and systems grow increasingly complex, CircleCI's tools help teams to identify and resolve bugs proactively, ensuring that issues are addressed before they affect end users. The platform is utilized by numerous prominent companies, including Facebook, Kickstarter, and Spotify, to enhance their software delivery speed and focus on generating business value. CircleCI has also been recognized as one of the best workplaces in the Bay Area. With a global remote workforce, the company is backed by several venture capital firms.

TESTIM

Series B in 2019
Testim is a developer of a testing automation platform that simplifies the process of application testing within agile development cycles. The platform leverages machine learning to facilitate the authoring, execution, and maintenance of automated tests. By analyzing various attributes in real time, it allows developers to identify and manage test elements effectively. This approach reduces the need for continuous test maintenance following code changes, empowering developers to take ownership of code quality and making quality assurance an organization-wide initiative. With Testim, both developers and testers can enhance their automation skills, leading to improved efficiency in the testing process.

Avo

Seed Round in 2019
Avo develops software aimed at enhancing the accuracy of product analytics by preventing human errors during implementation. The company's platform provides tools for defining event-based analytics and generating customized tracking libraries. These tools serve as a validation mechanism for developers, ensuring that analytics are correctly implemented according to design specifications. By functioning like a spell-checker for data quality and a type-checker for developers, Avo enables users to confidently track and analyze data while minimizing the risk of mistakes in their analytics processes.

Blockdaemon

Seed Round in 2018
Blockdaemon Inc. is a blockchain node management platform that enables businesses, enterprises, and developers to efficiently deploy and manage blockchain applications. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with additional offices in New York and Ireland, the company provides tools that allow users to manage nodes across more than 30 blockchain protocols, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Polkadot. Blockdaemon's solution is designed to be fully portable, enabling users to easily switch between networks and chains without the need for extensive configuration. The company also supports the blockchain developer ecosystem by offering expert dev-ops advice, facilitating smoother integration and deployment in the rapidly evolving blockchain landscape.

CircleCI

Series C in 2018
CircleCI is a provider of a continuous integration and delivery platform that assists software teams in efficiently releasing code by automating the processes of building, testing, and deploying applications. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company enables developers to quickly ramp up and scale their operations while maintaining high-quality output. As applications and systems grow increasingly complex, CircleCI's tools help teams to identify and resolve bugs proactively, ensuring that issues are addressed before they affect end users. The platform is utilized by numerous prominent companies, including Facebook, Kickstarter, and Spotify, to enhance their software delivery speed and focus on generating business value. CircleCI has also been recognized as one of the best workplaces in the Bay Area. With a global remote workforce, the company is backed by several venture capital firms.

TESTIM

Series A in 2017
Testim is a developer of a testing automation platform that simplifies the process of application testing within agile development cycles. The platform leverages machine learning to facilitate the authoring, execution, and maintenance of automated tests. By analyzing various attributes in real time, it allows developers to identify and manage test elements effectively. This approach reduces the need for continuous test maintenance following code changes, empowering developers to take ownership of code quality and making quality assurance an organization-wide initiative. With Testim, both developers and testers can enhance their automation skills, leading to improved efficiency in the testing process.

Greta

Venture Round in 2017
Greta is a technology company specializing in optimizing content delivery for developers, aiming to enhance end user experiences by reducing load times and buffering while improving content quality. Utilizing machine learning, Greta's platform analyzes network data in real-time to determine the most efficient routes for delivering images, audio, and video. This capability is particularly beneficial during traffic spikes, leading to higher conversion rates and increased user engagement. The implementation process is quick, allowing developers to configure settings through an intuitive user interface and access dashboards that provide insights into how their content delivery impacts user experiences. Overall, Greta's solutions enable online businesses to enhance site performance and reduce bandwidth consumption effectively.

TESTIM

Venture Round in 2016
Testim is a developer of a testing automation platform that simplifies the process of application testing within agile development cycles. The platform leverages machine learning to facilitate the authoring, execution, and maintenance of automated tests. By analyzing various attributes in real time, it allows developers to identify and manage test elements effectively. This approach reduces the need for continuous test maintenance following code changes, empowering developers to take ownership of code quality and making quality assurance an organization-wide initiative. With Testim, both developers and testers can enhance their automation skills, leading to improved efficiency in the testing process.

ReadMe

Venture Round in 2016
ReadMe is a documentation platform that enables companies to create aesthetically pleasing and functional developer portals. These portals integrate support resources, tutorials, topical guides, and API exploration tools, offering a comprehensive solution for documentation needs. The platform simplifies the process of keeping documentation current and includes community-oriented features that foster engagement and drive user adoption. By facilitating the development of dynamic documentation, ReadMe helps companies enhance their customer support and build productive developer communities.

Serverless

Venture Round in 2016
Serverless, Inc. is a technology company headquartered in San Francisco, California, that specializes in providing a development framework for creating serverless architectures. Founded in 2015 by Austen Collins, Serverless offers the Serverless Framework, which allows users to build auto-scaling, pay-per-execution, and event-driven applications specifically on AWS Lambda. The company also provides an application structure to effectively manage code, resources, and events across various projects and teams. In addition to its core offerings, Serverless includes tools that facilitate easy development and deployment, along with features such as troubleshooting, alerts, and safeguards for developers creating web, mobile, and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Serverless has established a strategic partnership with Tencent Cloud Computing to enhance its service offerings.

Netlify

Venture Round in 2016
Netlify, Inc. is a cloud-based platform that streamlines web development by automating the process of building and deploying web applications. Founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, the company offers a comprehensive suite of services including the Netlify platform, which integrates repositories and automates builds and deployments, as well as Netlify Build, a Git workflow for managing modern web projects. Additionally, Netlify provides tools like Netlify Edge, an application delivery network optimized for speed, and Netlify Dev, which allows users to run the platform locally on their laptops. By combining modern web frameworks, serverless functions, and edge computing, Netlify empowers developers and businesses to create high-performance, scalable websites efficiently. The platform is trusted by a range of notable brands, enhancing the way digital experiences are delivered across the web.

Mux

Venture Round in 2016
Mux is a company focused on enhancing online video infrastructure, primarily through its API-first platform designed for developers. It offers Mux Data, a performance analytics tool that provides critical insights into video performance metrics such as rebuffering, startup time, and video quality. This tool is utilized by notable organizations including Vimeo and PBS. Building on its analytics foundation, Mux introduced Mux Video, which simplifies video hosting, encoding, and streaming. This service allows users to seamlessly integrate video files or live streams into their applications, ensuring high-quality playback across various devices. Mux provides features like automatic thumbnails and data-driven encoding, along with an intuitive dashboard that facilitates A/B testing and offers detailed analytics on video views. By addressing common video-related challenges, Mux enables developers and publishers to enhance user experience without needing extensive expertise in video technology.

LightStep

Venture Round in 2016
LightStep Inc., established in 2013 and based in San Francisco, specializes in application performance management (APM) software solutions. The company's flagship product, LightStepPM, monitors and manages the performance of production systems at scale, providing real-time insights into end-to-end system behavior and interactions across organizational boundaries. It offers features such as SAML support, flexible data scrubbing, and is built on open standards. LightStep aims to deliver confidence in software application management by analyzing 100% of unsampled transaction data, accelerating root cause analysis for complex systems.

Convox

Venture Round in 2015
Convox, Inc. is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) provider founded in 2015 and based in Marietta, Georgia. The company offers an open-source application deployment platform that allows developers to build, deploy, and manage applications using Kubernetes within their own Amazon Web Services accounts. Designed by former Heroku engineers and backed by Y Combinator, Convox supports all major cloud environments, including AWS, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean, and Azure. Its platform features automated workflows, role-based access control, and comprehensive visibility across clouds, enabling software organizations to simplify their infrastructure. Convox serves a diverse clientele, ranging from startups to multinational enterprises, providing a portable and adaptable solution that integrates seamlessly with various development frameworks and programming languages.

Opsee

Venture Round in 2015
Opsee is a company that specializes in providing developers with a microservice monitoring platform aimed at optimizing cloud-based distributed systems. Founded in March 2015 by Cliff Moon, Stephen Boak, and Andy Gross, Opsee offers testing and monitoring services that deliver instant alerts for applications experiencing issues. Its platform includes tools that automatically discover, test, and monitor new services within cloud infrastructure, allowing developers to assess compliance with service level targets and gain insights into system performance. This functionality helps teams maintain the reliability and efficiency of their applications in complex cloud environments.

LaunchDarkly

Venture Round in 2015
LaunchDarkly is a software company that provides a feature management platform designed to enhance collaboration between development teams and business stakeholders. Its core product enables DevOps teams to safely deploy new features incrementally, targeting specific user segments across various platforms. This controlled rollout process facilitates standardized releases at scale, accelerates cloud migration, and improves overall software delivery efficiency.

LaunchDarkly

Venture Round in 2015
LaunchDarkly is a software company that provides a feature management platform designed to enhance collaboration between development teams and business stakeholders. Its core product enables DevOps teams to safely deploy new features incrementally, targeting specific user segments across various platforms. This controlled rollout process facilitates standardized releases at scale, accelerates cloud migration, and improves overall software delivery efficiency.

Apportable

Seed Round in 2014
Apportable Inc. is a software development company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2010. The company specializes in technology that enables iOS developers to automatically port their games to Android without the need for extensive modifications to the original Objective-C or C++ code. Apportable's platform allows for seamless conversion, which has successfully helped numerous apps reach the top of various app charts, delighting millions of users across multiple distribution channels, including the Google Play Store and Amazon Appstore. Additionally, Apportable offers SpriteBuilder, an environment designed for creating native cross-platform 2D games using Objective-C or Swift, further enhancing its commitment to simplifying the app development process for cross-platform compatibility.

Gradle Enterprise

Venture Round in 2014
Gradle Inc. is a company that specializes in enhancing developer productivity through its innovative software solutions, notably Develocity, which was formerly known as Gradle Enterprise. The firm is also the creator of the widely used open-source Gradle Build Tool, which sees over 30 million downloads each month. Gradle is at the forefront of Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE), a practice adopted by prominent organizations such as Airbnb, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Nasdaq, and Netflix. These elite teams utilize Develocity’s advanced technologies and analytics to accelerate build and test performance, thereby improving the reliability of their developer toolchains and streamlining the troubleshooting of failures. By automating and unifying the build processes, Gradle enables enterprises to effectively build, deliver, and maintain complex applications, thereby enhancing their capability to ship software efficiently and cost-effectively.

Meteor Software

Venture Round in 2014
Meteor Development Group Inc. operates Meteor, an open-source JavaScript application platform designed for software developers to create web and mobile applications. The platform provides data hosting capabilities, allowing companies to develop real-time applications utilizing modern API technologies. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company aims to simplify the application development process, making it more accessible to a broader audience. Meteor's commitment to enhancing developer experience is reflected in its flexible and remote-first work culture, fostering a collaborative environment among its global team.

OverOps

Venture Round in 2014
OverOps, Inc. is a software company that specializes in online application monitoring and error analysis. Founded in 2011 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, OverOps provides a cloud-based platform that enables developers to identify and resolve production errors in real-time. The platform analyzes backend applications built with Java or .NET, allowing developers to receive detailed insights into exceptions, log errors, and performance slowdowns as they occur. By delivering the complete source code and variable states associated with critical errors, OverOps helps developers understand when and why issues arise, facilitating swift resolutions and optimized software performance. The company was previously known as Takipi Ltd. before rebranding in August 2016.

Runscope

Venture Round in 2013
Runscope Inc. is a company focused on enhancing the application development lifecycle through its suite of API monitoring and testing tools. Established in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Runscope offers solutions for developers to monitor and manage APIs used in mobile and web applications. Its platform enables businesses to monitor API traffic, debug issues, and conduct automated integration testing, thereby allowing organizations to anticipate potential API failures and ensure their APIs are operational, efficient, and accurate. As of September 2017, Runscope operates as a subsidiary of CA, Inc.

LightTable

Venture Round in 2013
Light Table is an innovative interactive integrated development environment (IDE) that allows users to modify running programs in real time. This platform enables developers to embed various elements, including websites and games, directly into their code. With a focus on enhancing the coding experience, Light Table offers features like inline evaluation and customizable plugins, which facilitate efficient code writing and better understanding of program functionality. By providing immediate feedback, Light Table helps users answer questions about their code and gain deeper insights into how their programs operate.

Iron.io

Venture Round in 2013
Iron.io, Inc. is a developer of cloud-based tools designed for building and managing distributed applications. Founded in 2010 and based in Las Vegas, California, the company offers a range of solutions including IronWorker for container-based workloads, IronMQ for messaging queuing, IronFunctions for open-source functions integration, and IronCache for caching data. Iron.io's event-driven computing platform facilitates the delivery and processing of millions of messages and tasks, enabling asynchronous workloads in public, private, or hybrid cloud environments. Its technology supports various computing patterns, such as event processing and microservices, allowing enterprises to effectively scale their Docker-based workloads while maintaining control over job processing and security across different deployment scenarios.

Codenvy

Venture Round in 2013
Codenvy is a provider of a cloud development platform that facilitates the coding, building, and testing of applications. The company offers a cloud-based development environment that transforms the traditional local desktop setup, which includes the editor, builder, and tester runtimes, by logically separating it from the physical environment and relocating it to the cloud. This innovative approach enables enterprises to access on-demand workspaces that promote collaboration and eliminate constraints typically associated with local development environments.

Pantheon Systems Platform

Venture Round in 2013
Pantheon Systems, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that offers a web management platform designed for agile marketers and developers to create, launch, and manage websites built on WordPress and Drupal. Founded in 2010, Pantheon provides cloud-based web development tools and hosting services that facilitate efficient website operations across various industries, including media, technology, higher education, nonprofit, government, healthcare, financial services, food and beverage, manufacturing, and travel. By streamlining the website development process, Pantheon enables users to innovate more rapidly and achieve their business objectives effectively.

Sanity

Sanity AS is a Norwegian company that specializes in developing a content platform designed for software developers and content creators. Established in 2017 and headquartered in Oslo, with an additional office in San Francisco, Sanity provides tools that facilitate real-time collaboration, live multi-user editing, and change tracking. By treating content as structured data, the platform enables teams to build efficient editing workflows and seamlessly share content across various applications and channels, such as e-commerce sites, mobile applications, and marketing platforms. Sanity's technology leverages APIs, including GraphQL and JavaScript, allowing users to define their data models and customize their content usage. The company aims to enhance digital experiences by empowering organizations to articulate, collaborate, and distribute content effectively.
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