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Joe Ruscio

General Partner, Heavybit

About

Joe Ruscio is a venture capital investor at Heavybit who spent ~20 years as a systems engineer and founded monitoring startup Librato, giving him deep technical experience that most VCs lack. He focuses specifically on open source and developer-first businesses, publicly sharing detailed frameworks on how to invest in these companies and helping technical founders make engineering decisions that directly affect their go-to-market success. Joe Ruscio is a venture capital investor at Heavybit who spent ~20 years as a systems engineer and founded monitoring startup Librato, giving him deep technical experience that most VCs lack. He focuses specifically on open source and developer-first businesses, publicly sharing detailed frameworks on how to invest in these companies and helping technical founders make engineering decisions that directly affect their go-to-market success.

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Investment focus

Stages
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Sectors
Devtools
Enterprise
AI
Cybersecurity
Data

Investment details

Avg check size$500K - $5M
Can lead rounds
Yes
Geographies
USA
Canada
Asia-Pacific
India
Europe
LatAm
Israel