Jesse Robbins

Investment Partner , Angel

Overview

Gender
male
Investor Type
Investment Partner,Angel
Investor Stage
Early stage Venture,Late Stage Venture,Seed,Venture

Jesse Robbins is Founder & Executive Chairman of Orion Labs. Jesse is a venture partner at Heavybit, the venture fund and program that helps developer and infrastructure tools startups succeed. Jesse is an early investor and advisor in companies like Fastly, Pagerduty, Launchdarkly, Sanity, and Instacart.

Prior to Orion, Jesse was founder & CEO of Chef, the pioneer in cloud automation, used by thousands of companies like Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. He also founded the Velocity Web Performance & Operations Conference and edited the Web Operations book. He is credited as a creator of the DevOps movement. Prior to founding Chef, Robbins served as Amazon’s “Master of Disaster” where he was responsible for Website Availability for every property bearing the Amazon brand.

Jesse is a volunteer Firefighter/EMT and Emergency Manager.

Personal Investments

Number of Investments
4
Jesse Robbins has made 4 investments. Their most recent investment was on Oct 7, 2021, when Kentik raised $40M.
Date Company Name Round Money Raised Industry
Oct 7, 2021 Kentik Series C $40M Cloud Data Services Detail
Aug 30, 2021 Eight Sleep Series C $86M Consumer Electronics Detail
Aug 18, 2021 MobileCoin Series B $66M Cryptocurrency Detail
Feb 16, 2021 Axiom Space Series B $130M Advanced Materials Detail

Jobs

Number of Current Jobs
3
Jesse Robbins has 3 current jobs including Board Member at Sanity , Investor & Advisor at Blockdaemon and Investor & Advisor at Particle .
Organization Name Title At Company Start Date End Date
Sanity Board Member Jan 1, 2020 Detail
Blockdaemon Investor & Advisor Jan 1, 2018 Detail
Particle Investor & Advisor Jan 1, 2016 Detail