Joseph Ruscio
General Partner at Heavybit Industries
Portland, Oregon
Overview
Work Experience
Seed Investor & Board Director
2024 - Current
Reo.Dev is a modern growth stack for developer focused companies.
Raised $5,144,225.00 from Foster Ventures, Adam Frankl, Gaurav Batra, peercheque, Vivek Shah, Bharat Founders Fund, India Quotient, Nakul Gupta, Shraddha Gupta and Savin Goyal.
General Partner
2018
Part-time Partner
2016 - 2018
Advise member companies, providing high-level strategic support including help with hands-on leadership, go-to-market, fundraising, etc. Sit on the Board of Directors to assist in managing the fund as well as source and perform diligence on prospective new member companies.
Heavybit is the leading investor in dev-first companies with an unrivaled track record helping technical founders achieve breakout success.
Seed Investor & Board Director
2023
Seed Investor & Board Director
2021
Seed Investor & Board Observer
2021
Seed Investor & Board Director
2020
Seed Investor & Board Observer
2019
Seed Investor
2019
Sanity is a platform for structured content that lets teams build digital experiences.
Raised $50,700,000.00 from Shopify.
Pre-Seed Investor & Board Observer
2019 - 2024
Orbit is a platform that makes community the engine for growth in businesses.
Raised $22,741,945.00 from Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, Harrison Metal and Heavybit.
Chief Strategist for Cloud
2017 - 2018
Senior Director of Engineering
2015 - 2017
Led Engineering for Solarwinds Cloud products including: Librato, Papertrail, and Tracelytics. Helped drive Cloud strategy including acquisitions.
SolarWinds develops a technology that manages IT infrastructures.
Raised $532,500,000.00 from AlpInvest Partners, Thoma Bravo, HarbourVest Partners, Silver Lake and Neuberger Berman.
Education
Master of Science (M.S.)
2002 - 2007
B.S.
1997 - 2001