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Who invested in heavybit (heavybit.com)
Hello! Thanks for your question about who invested in Heavybit Industries. The most useful sources I found to answer your question are Heavybit Industries People page and Heavybit Industries' list of investors on Twitter.
The short version is that there were 18 key investors in Heavybit Industries. Below you will find a deep dive of my findings, which includes a brief bio on each investor and a link to either their company page or LinkedIn account. The only recorded funding they received was an undisclosed amount from a Seed VC fund last May 2013.
HEAVYBIT INDUSTRIES INVESTORS
Steve is the founder of Baseline Ventures and his portfolio of companies when he invested in Heavybit Industries included Crashlytics, CircleCI, and Pantheon.
One of the founding partners of Reed Elsevier Ventures (REV), Tony is also "an investor and board member at several big data, infrastructure, and enterprise software companies including SpaceCurve, Netli, and Siperian."
One of the founding partners of Reed Elsevier Ventures (REV), Kevin also invests in media, cloud and big data companies like GigaOM, Inxight, and Palantir.
"Derek is the founder and CEO of Apcera and has more than two decades of large-scale, distributed systems experience. Prior to Apcera, Derek was CTO and Chief Architect at VMware where he architected the CloudFoundry platform."
Ignition Partners, a venture capital firm, is where John is a partner. He also sits on the board of Splunk, Opscode, and Parse.
The founder of Harrison Metal, Michael invests in companies like PagerDuty, StackMob, and Recurly. He "is an expert on productizing emerging technologies, go-to-market, product marketing, & pricing."
Roger is the founder and managing partner of IA Ventures. He has backed startups like Bitly, Metamarkets, and DataSift.
"Eric is co-founder and CEO of MemSQL. Previously he was a Partner Engineer at Facebook and Product Specialist at Marin Software. Eric was named to Forbes’ 30 under 30 list."
The co-founder of Fuel Capital, Chris was previously at Ignition Partners. He has invested in Parse, Pagerduty, Zencoder, Mashape, WePay, and Hipmunk.
"Ethan is a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners where he leads the developer platforms vertical. His investments include Twilio, Sendgrid, Intercom, Nitrous.io, and npm."
At the time of investing Jeremy was the co-founder and CEO of Message Bus. The company was recently sold. "He was previously a co-founder and Operations Manager at Twitter and the Operations Lead at Odeo."
David was a founder and managing partner of SV Angel, but publicly left the company and launched the VC firm Refractor Capital. He was also "a founding member of Google’s New Business Development team and led business development at StumbleUpon."
A partner at Accel Partners, Ping has experience as a technology investor and operating executive. His focus is on cloud computing, networking and security.
"Matt is the co-founder of Data Collective. He has backed developer-focused companies such as Couchbase, Cloudability, Appurify, Firebase, MongoHQ, and Parse."
A partner at Redpoint Ventures, Scott's expertise is in cloud computing and enterprise infrastructure. Investments have included Heroku, Stripe, and Twilio.
"Chris Sacca was an early investor in Twitter. His fund Lowercase Capital has invested in portfolio companies’s including Kickstarter, Uber, Lookout, Instagram, Twilio, and Heroku. He’s been named to Forbes’ Midas List."
The co-founder of Fuel Capital and a founding partner of Ignition Partners, Brad has invested in TellMe, Heroku, Xensource, Sourcelabs, Skytap, and more.
"John is EVP of Corporate Development & Strategy at Salesforce, where he handles mergers, acquisitions, and investments. Previously, he worked at Ingenio and Oracle."
FUNDING ROUNDS
According to CBInsights, Datafox, and Pitchbook, Heavybit received an undisclosed amount from a seed funding round last May 2013. There were no succeeding funding rounds opened.
OTHER
Heavybit has a Twitter list of their key investors and their company twitter accounts as well. I have included a link to the list for your information.
CONCLUSION
To wrap up, there are 18 key investors in Heavybit Industries that collectively have a pretty impressive portfolio.
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