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Jonathan Heiliger

General Partner at Vertex Ventures US

Aspen, Colorado

Overview 

Jonathan Heiliger is currently a General Partner at Vertex Ventures US, with a notable track record of investing in successful startups like CloseFactor, Vintra, and Desktop Metal. He serves on the boards of several companies, including Metaview, Elotl, and LaunchDarkly, and has a strong focus on sectors like TransportationTech, Security, and Cloud Infrastructure. Heiliger's career highlights include his involvement in Series A and Series C funding rounds for various companies, as well as his advisory roles at ICONIQ Capital and as a Trustee at Exploratorium, showcasing his expertise in venture capital and strategic decision-making within the tech industry.

Work Experience 

  • General Partner

    2015 - Current

    Vertex Ventures US (VVUS) is a boutique venture firm focused on making Seed and Series A investments in the areas we know best: software infrastructure, developer tools, data, security, and vertical SaaS. We’re fans of open-source software, active supporters of developer communities and builder groups, and fluent in the finer points of AI. As former founders and operators ourselves, our mission is to give the best technical founders the personalized support they need to become the next generation of market leaders.

  • Board Member

    2025

    Building the infrastructure for AGI. Flux designs and manufactures optical processors to train and run inference on large AI models.

  • Board Member

    2024

    Making Identity Governance a cakewalk.

  • Trustee

    2024

    Co-Chair Collectors' Forum; Painting & Sculpture Accessions Committee; Attending Art Fairs

  • Board Member

    2021

    Metaview is the anti-toil company. Toil is the force that opposes progress — it is to progress as friction is to motion. Our answer to toil is Human-Computer Symbiosis. We're building the AI copilot that will fundamentally change how hiring gets done.

  • Board Member

    2021

    Elotl's Nodeless Kubernetes enables you to run applications on public cloud in a secure, simple, cost-effective, cloud-agnostic manner without managing servers or clusters.

Elotl develops serverless infrastructure platform for microservices.

Raised $8,800,000.00 from XYZ Venture Capital, Telescopic Ventures, HearstLab, Edith Harbaugh, Vertex Ventures US, Essence VC, Dan Scheinman, Vertex Ventures US and HearstLab.

  • Board Member

    2020

    OpsLevel is the leading internal developer portal designed to help engineering teams build, ship, and maintain software better than ever. We believe that developer portals are the linchpin to a successful developer experience. With customers like Duolingo, Sotheby's, Keller Williams, and Hootsuite, we know that the best businesses in the world prioritize a great developer experience in order to beat the competition.

  • Advisory Committee

    2020

ICONIQ Capital is a privately-held investment firm that serves some influential families and organizations.

  • Board Member

    2019

    Loris is an intelligence layer that helps customer teams successfully increase effective digital support – like messaging, SMS, and live chat – so they can lower costs while better serving customers who expect quality support anytime, anywhere they want to reach out.

Loris is an AI-powered SaaS platform that turns customer service conversations into the answers you need to make better decisions.

Raised $19,139,857.00 from ServiceNow, Floodgate, Bow Capital and Vertex Ventures.

  • Trustee

    2019

    The Exploratorium is a portal to the astonishing scientific phenomena that animate our world and shape our actions. Hailed by The New York Times Magazine as “one of the ten coolest museums in the world,” the Exploratorium is the global leader in science education and informal learning, designed to ignite curiosity and inspire creativity in people of all ages. It is a STEAM institution, an educational facility, and a community center.

The Exploratorium is a museum of science, art, and human perception located in San Francisco, California.

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