JR

Joseph Ruscio

General Partner at Heavybit Industries

Portland, Oregon

Investor
VC

Invests in

Stages:

Seed

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Skills

Ruby
C
JavaScript
Linux
Cloud Computing
SaaS
Distributed Systems
Scalability
Git
SQL
Test Driven Development
Ruby on Rails
Shell Scripting
Software Development
Software Engineering

Education

Investments

Userfront

Seed

Total Funding: $5M

Kosli

Seed

Total Funding: $3M

Metrist

Seed

Total Funding: $4M

Tailscale

Seed

Total Funding: $120M

Tonic.ai

Series B

Total Funding: $43M

Sanity

Seed

Total Funding: $62M

Aserto

Seed

Total Funding: $5M

Orbit

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $20M

CircleCI

Series C

Total Funding: $350M

Work Experience

Heavybit Industries

2016

  • 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.

Tailscale

2019

  • Seed Investor & Board Observer

    2019

Orbit

2019

  • Pre-Seed Investor & Board Observer

    2019

Sanity.io

2019

  • Seed Investor

    2019

SolarWinds

2015 - 2018

  • 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.

Librato, Inc.

2007 - 2017

  • Chief Technology Officer

    2010 - 2017

  • Chief Software Architect

    2007 - 2010

Evergrid

2005 - 2007

  • Director of Engineering

    2005 - 2007

California Digital Corporation

2004 - 2005

  • Lead Software Engineer

    2004 - 2005

Virginia Tech

2003 - 2004

  • Graduate Research Assistant

    2003 - 2004

Motorola

1998 - 2002

  • Software Engineering Intern

    1998 - 2002