
American startup accelerator, Heavybit, invests in developer-first startups, transforming visions into platforms.
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Leading devtool investor Heavybit announces its latest fund.
Heavybit welcomes veteran analyst and startup expert Rachel Chalmers to its partnership team.
Heavybit welcomes the agentic execution platform Modiqo.
The page shares takeaways from Edith Harbaugh’s Speaker Series, “Build vs Buy: Turning Critics into Champions,” on selling software to developers who prefer building over buying.
The page features follow-up questions to Betty Junod about messaging to users versus buyers, following her talk “Messaging as The One Source of Truth.”
Open-source software means software development advantages and the ability to create an open-source community compared to proprietary software.
Understand the key differences of RAG vs. fine-tuning, technical trade-offs, and when to use each approach for building LLM-powered applications.
Amir Zohrenejad is a part-time partner at Heavybit and a serial entrepreneur who co-founded two technical startups: Dataherald and CloudFish.
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Joe Ruscio is a general partner at Heavybit who uses his experience in academia, startup management, and venture capital to scale developer-first startups.
Heavybit is the leading investor in developer-first companies with an unrivaled track record of helping technical founders achieve breakout success.
Since 2013, Heavybit has continuously launched and scaled startups across multiple innovation cycles, from DevSecOps, feature flagging, AI and beyond.
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San Francisco startup Halluminate raises a $30 million Series A led by Oak HC/FT to build AI training environments for financial work, bringing its total funding to $38.5 million. Its benchmarks identify failures in complex workflows; an acquisition due-diligence test of seven frontier models records a highest average score of 51% across 88 tasks. CEO Jerry Wu says four of the top five closed-source U.S. AI labs are paying customers and the company is profitable, with annualized revenue run rate in the mid-eight figures.
Oct 2026 · FortuneNews article
Heavybit was named to TIMEs 2026 list of Americas Top Venture Capital Firms, marking its second consecutive year on the list, announced August 18, 2026. Founded in 2013, the venture capital firm focuses on enterprise and AI infrastructure as investment areas.
Sep 2026 · citybizNews article
Israeli startup Milestone raises a $10 million seed round to help companies measure how AI coding tools affect engineering outcomes. Its platform combines codebases, project-management data, team structure, and code-generation tools to track usage, delivery speed, code quality, and bugs; customers include Kayak, Monday, and Sapiens. Heavybit and Hanaco Ventures lead the round, with Atlassian Ventures and angel investors also participating.
Nov 2025 · TechCrunchNews article