Today, we're excited to announce $7.75M in funding for Duckbill, the enterprise FP&A platform that helps enterprises decipher complex cloud billing. "Duckbill is building the platform enterprises need to forecast and govern cloud and AI spend with precision." www.heavybit.com/press/heavyb...

For better and worse, we're barreling toward a future where a large and growing fraction of production code is never read by a human. Heavybit GP @josephruscio.bsky.social discusses the arrival of “Write-Only Code” and what it means for enterprise software. www.heavybit.com/library/arti...

Companies are hiring a lot of "AI Engineers." But if you go to OpenAI or Anthropic's careers page, you won't find "AI Engineer" listed. So what is it then? Amir Zohrenejad analyzes the data: www.heavybit.com/library/arti...

Is product management making a comeback? 🤔 We checked in with development experts Amit Eyal Govrin, @bizza.pizza, and Alex Kurilin to dig into why and what it means to be a good product manager or product engineer in the age of AI. www.heavybit.com/library/arti...

Today, we're excited to announce $4.5M in funding for Musical AI, the platform for AI rights management. Musical AI delivers transparent, auditable attribution infrastructure that connects generative music systems to real licensing outcomes. www.heavybit.com/press/heavyb...

AI models require strong semantic text management to understand natural-language prompts and return accurate, intelligible responses. It can be compute intensive but it doesn't have to be. #WordLlama creator David Lee Miller explains: www.heavybit.com/library/arti...

Longer queries means incurring higher token costs. But there’s more to building good AI applications than pinching pennies on tokens. TOON (Token-Oriented Object Notation) creator @johannschopplich.com explains: www.heavybit.com/library/arti...

Exciting news for @replicate.com! Congratulations to @bfirsh.bsky.social, Andreas Jansson, and the team as they continue their mission to bring #ML #models to the #Cloud in a much bigger way.

We're is thrilled to co-lead the seed funding for Milestone AI with Hanaco Ventures to help enterprises bring culture to the chaos of AI adoption at the enterprise. Welcome Liad, Stephen, and the Milestone team! www.heavybit.com/press/heavyb...

Having multiple agents under the hood may turn engineering into a multiplayer discipline that requires simultaneous human-in-the-loop oversight of AI agents. Thinking of experimenting with multi-agentic orchestration? www.heavybit.com/library/arti...

With AEO/GEO changing the game, content freshness matters more than ever. In this post, Karl Hughes shows us why you don't need to abandon your content, you just have to rework it. www.heavybit.com/library/arti...

Writing content to market to developers was already hard enough. But now with AI chatbots replacing search, how should founders rethink content? We asked dev content expert Oleksii Klochai of Wizard on Demand for his best SEO & GEO advice: www.heavybit.com/library/arti...

Today, we're excited to announce $6M in seed funding for @unikraft.com, the first truly millisecond-native, highly scalable cloud platform. Congratulations to Felipe Huici, Simon Keunzer, Alexander Jung, and the rest of the team! unikraft.com/blog/we-rais...

Today, we're excited to announce $4M in seed funding for Reo.Dev, an AI-native go-to-market platform built for developer-first companies. Congratulations to Achintya Gupta, Piyush Agarwal, Gaurav Jain, and the rest of the Reo team! www.linkedin.com/posts/achint...

Congrats @ellie.wtf on launching @atuin.sh Desktop. Atuin Desktop makes local developer workflows repeatable, shareable, and reliable. Learn more and get involved: blog.atuin.sh/atuin-deskto...

Figuring out AI tool productivity for engineering teams still isn't easy, but there are ways to connect ROI with AI adoption, and opportunities for AI founders to build solutions that engineering orgs genuinely need. DX CTO @lauratacho.com explains. www.heavybit.com/library/arti...

The future of documentation isn't about AI replacing writers. It's about using AI as an assistant, not a solution. In this article, Heidi Waterhouse discusses some of the biggest mistakes teams can make but also the best opportunities to use it correctly. www.heavybit.com/library/arti...

🗓️ By popular demand, we've built a Luma Calendar of industry conferences, devtools meetups, and can't-miss community events. To be considered for inclusion, feel free to submit directly or reach out to [email protected] to discuss what makes sense. lu.ma/devtools-ind...

Enterprises no longer spend a majority of their budget on labor but on external software. And technical users are no longer confined to engineering teams at startups, they now power critical workstreams across nearly every major business on the planet. www.heavybit.com/library/arti...

Today, we're excited to finally share that Amir Zohrenejad is joining the Heavybit team as Part-Time Partner. Amir brings a wealth of experience as a data & AI expert and multi-startup founder, and we're lucky to have him. www.heavybit.com/press/announ...

So far, the single biggest slide from #DevGuild was from Quinn (Sourcegraph); an “everything you’ve read about how code and SaaS sales gets done is wrong” And the caveat: not because it’s right, but because if everyone is doing it wrong, you can’t ignore it when your goal is startup survival.

Our half-day, single-track conference is back! ⚙️ DevGuild: Founder Fundamentals is bringing together seasoned leaders to chart the real paths of technical founders and how it reshapes the people behind the products. Apply now to learn from the best: lu.ma/devguild-fou...

Fresh off the news of our largest raise, our Managing Director @tdbit.bsky.social was on the Sand Hill Road podcast with @scottmcgrew.bsky.social to discuss why the traditional enterprise sales model is fading and how devs now hold the keys to software adoption. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

Without #datapipelines in regulated spaces like #healthcare, #fintech, or #insurance, technical teams risk issues with #dataquality, #datafreshness, and accuracy. Dr. Roshan Nanu, PhD and director of AI at Prompt Health explains: www.heavybit.com/library/arti...

It was a big week at Heavybit. We kicked it off by announcing our latest and largest yet $180M fundraise. Thank you to our founders, investors, and community that made it possible. This next chapter is just beginning. If you're building, let’s talk.

Today we’re excited to announce our largest raise yet: $180M+ to fuel our mission of backing category-defining founders from Day 0. As AI accelerates software across every axis, we’re doubling down on hands-on support for builders reshaping the future of software. www.heavybit.com/press/heavyb...

Congratulations to @continue.dev! @ty.energy and @natesesti.bsky.social have built an incredible platform and community. As an enterprise infrastructure and open-source veteran, @chadmetcalf.com is a fantastic addition. We can't wait to see what the future holds. blog.continue.dev/from-open-so...

A lot of my infra workflows live in Slack threads, docs, or buried in shell history. That sucked. I've been building Atuin Desktop. Local-first, CRDT-powered, executable runbooks - with integrated terminals, sql queries + monitoring blog.atuin.sh/atuin-deskto... Lmk if you have any questions <3

"Data pipelines are the New Secret Sauce for every company building with AI" @jesserobbins.bsky.social 👇🏼 Read more about why we're excited to welcome @datarecce.bsky.social to the portfolio: www.heavybit.com/press/heavyb...

We're excited to announce $4M in pre-seed funding for @datarecce.bsky.social, a data management startup that provides data-native code review tools for data transformation projects and AI systems. Today, Recce is also releasing OSS 1.0 and its new collaborative SaaS offering, Recce Cloud.

Data pipelines are becoming increasingly crucial as organizations look to deploy AI programs. We spoke with DagWorks co-founder Stefan Krawcyzk to understand what teams should consider when standing up their first data pipeline, and how to manage it over time. www.heavybit.com/library/arti...

Running AI in production requires A LOT of data. But there are limitations to using real data. In this article, Tonic co-founder Adam Kamor explains how software teams can leverage synthetic data to train models. www.heavybit.com/library/arti...

Heavybit is thrilled to announce our participation in Groundcover's Series B round with Zeev Ventures, Angular Ventures, and Jibe Ventures. Congratulations to Shahar Azulay, Yechezkel Rabinovich, and the Groundcover team. siliconangle.com/2025/04/10/o...

2 weeks until Data Council! Our final installment of interviews with the committee behind this year's conference is now live. Hear this exclusive conversation between Foundation Models track host @schof.bsky.social and Heavybit Managing Director @tdbit.bsky.social. www.heavybit.com/library/arti...

Heavybit are the ones who explained our business model to us back in 2019. I guess they were right!

Congratulations @apenwarr.ca, @dfcarney.bsky.social, and the @tailscale.com team on their Series C announcement! We're excited to be participating in the round with Accel, CRV, Insight Partners, and Uncork Capital. tailscale.com/blog/series-c

Without a guide, you could be building data pipelines the wrong way, leading to inefficiencies, errors, and costly rework. But don't worry, we've got the guide for you. www.heavybit.com/library/arti...

Congratulations to the Kosli team on their Series A round! Alongside this funding, they've launched their enterprise offering, designed to meet the complex governance and compliance needs of large financial institutions. www.kosli.com/blog/kosli-r...

Attending NVIDIA GTC? Join us and @heavybit.com at the Amplified Devs Social on March 19th from 5-7pm PT Event link: lu.ma/hb-continue-... This and more in our March newsletter: blog.continue.dev/continue-new...

Continue 1.0 is here! Combining our open-source IDE extensions with hub.continue.dev makes it frictionless to use custom AI code assistants. Discover the models, rules, prompts, docs, and other building blocks you need to become an amplified developer ✨

We're thrilled to announce the 1.0 launch of @continue.dev, which gives devs the power to build their own custom AI coding assistant with the #governance and #controls that #enterprises need. Congratulations @ty.energy @natesesti.bsky.social and the Continue team! techcrunch.com/2025/02/26/c...

Local-first development is still evolving and may not suit every startup, but it offers real benefits. We asked @prisma.io founder and startup advisor @schickling.dev for his thoughts on its opportunities and why startup founders should consider local-first. www.heavybit.com/library/arti...

#Localfirst is about giving data ownership and agency to end-users while making the #Cloud optional. @adamwiggins.bsky.social @expede.wtf @biilmann.blog @yonz.bsky.social explain why this emerging model for #software #development could change everything. www.heavybit.com/library/arti...

How is the software development landscape evolving? What role will #AI play in building products and having a career in engineering? @heavybit.com General Partner @josephruscio.bsky.social explains on the How I Raised It podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lvD...

Getting #opensource #LLMs into production #locally opens up a new world of use cases. Heavybit has partnered with @mlopscommunity.bsky.social and GenLab Venture Studio to present a series of compact, how-to lightning sessions: heavybit.com/library/arti...

Starting an #opensource project from first principles means setting goals, scoping your initial code, choosing the right license, and building a community that will make your project come alive. Software go-to-market expert Kimberly Harrison explains: www.heavybit.com/library/arti...

For #opensource startups, figuring out how to cross the chasm to sell to #enterprise customers while navigating competition from massive vendors isn't easy. Veteran go-to-market leader Leena Joshi explains what founders need to know: www.heavybit.com/library/arti...

Thinking about #positioning for #opensource means considering differentiators, business models, competitors, and ultimately starting with a strategic hypothesis about where you think this whole thing will go. Positioning expert @emilyomier.bsky.social explains: www.heavybit.com/library/arti...

From first principles, the single most important thing #opensource startups can do to build #defensibility is start with a sound business model. Chef and @systeminit.com co-founder @adamhjk.me explains in this extensive guide: www.heavybit.com/library/arti...

In #opensource, #forks happen for a reason--usually as a recourse for governance or technical reasons. This extensive guide covers how, when, and why your #startup might fork an open-source project and how to do it successfully. www.heavybit.com/library/arti...