General Info
Joseph Ruscio is a General Partner at Heavybit with more than 20 years of experience in academia, startups, and the enterprise. He specializes in distributed systems and scaling high-performing organizations, focusing on developer-first go-to-markets. Known for his previous involvement in Librato, a cloud-native infrastructure monitoring company, he led its rapid growth and acquisition by SolarWinds. Joseph actively works with Heavybit-backed companies like Tailscale and Localstack, aiming to empower technical practitioners and eliminate non-core tasks. His investment check size typically ranges from $500K to $3M, supporting pre-seed to seed rounds. He values partnerships that give practitioners ‘superpowers’ and focuses on ensuring their success.
Location: Portland, Oregon
Country: United States of America
Industries: AI, Cloud, Security, Networking, DevSecOps, Software
Investment Regions: EU, NA
Investment Stages: pre-seed, seed
Website: https://www.heavybit.com/
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🤖 AI Activity Report
Status: very-active
AI Reasoning: Heavybit press shows Joseph Ruscio involvement with companies added in 2024; specifically Heavybit announced ‘Heavybit Welcomes New Member: Replicate’ on Jan 24, 2024 and ‘Userfront’ on May 23, 2024. Additionally, public posts (LinkedIn) reference Tailscale Series C in Apr 2025 indicating continued activity. The most recent verifiable investment-related activity tied to Joseph Ruscio is April 2025 (Tailscale), which is less than 6 months before the reference date, so classify as very-active.
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Low Activity – Only known angel investments more than 12 months ago.
Active – Known angel investments between the last 12 and 6 months.
Very Active – Known angel investments in the last 6 months.
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