Jonathan Heiliger

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Investor, Entrepreneur, Rebel @ Vertex Ventures US
Jonathan Heiliger's Location
Palo Alto, California, United States, United States
Jonathan Heiliger's Contact Details
About Jonathan Heiliger

I'm looking for clever people who want to change the world through technology.Early in my career, I co-founded and was CTO of GlobalCenter, and later founded Global Crossing’s venture capital group. While scaling GlobalCenter, we saw an opportunity to build the world’s first native-optical IP network. When others were adopting ATM, we chose the path less traveled with a novel approach. I went on to be employee #1 and Chief Operating Officer for Opsware (acquired by HP), an early "cloud computing" company.More recently, I led Facebook's infrastructure team from 2007 until 2012. During that time Facebook grew from 35 million to over 900 million users, and witnessed unprecedented scale and velocity. One of our most impactful decisions was defying the status quo and sharing our lessons learned in infrastructure with the world through 100+ open source projects, critically databases, compilers and forming the Open Compute Project.In 2012 I became a full-time venture investor and started my own firm, Vertex Ventures US, in 2015 with a longtime collaborator. We invest within select B2B markets: enterprise, SaaS and deep-tech companies where the partners, who are all former operators, have an unfair advantage to source, filter and grow companies.

Jonathan Heiliger's Current Company Details
Vertex Ventures US

Vertex Ventures Us

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Investor, Entrepreneur, Rebel
Jonathan Heiliger Work Experience Details
  • Vertex Ventures Us
    General Partner
    Vertex Ventures Us Jan 2015 - Present
    Palo Alto, Ca, Us
    Vertex Ventures US is a boutique fund that invests early (often the first!) in enterprising founders who make it possible for new applications and services to be born. My partners and I have created $6B+ of value as founders ourselves, and ’first check’ backers.
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  • Sfmoma San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art
    Trustee
    Sfmoma San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art Sep 2024 - Present
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    Co-Chair Collectors' Forum; Painting & Sculpture Accessions Committee; Attending Art Fairs
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  • Metaview
    Board Member
    Metaview Oct 2021 - Present
    London, Uk, Gb
    Metaview is the anti-toil company. Toil is the force that opposes progress — it is to progress as friction is to motion. Our answer to toil is Human-Computer Symbiosis. We're building the AI copilot that will fundamentally change how hiring gets done.
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  • Elotl
    Board Member
    Elotl Jun 2021 - Present
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Elotl's Nodeless Kubernetes enables you to run applications on public cloud in a secure, simple, cost-effective, cloud-agnostic manner without managing servers or clusters.
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  • Opslevel
    Board Member
    Opslevel Sep 2020 - Present
    Toronto, Ontario, Ca
    OpsLevel is the leading internal developer portal designed to help engineering teams build, ship, and maintain software better than ever. We believe that developer portals are the linchpin to a successful developer experience. With customers like Duolingo, Sotheby's, Keller Williams, and Hootsuite, we know that the best businesses in the world prioritize a great developer experience in order to beat the competition.
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  • Iconiq Capital
    Advisory Committee
    Iconiq Capital Sep 2020 - Present
    San Francisco, California, Us
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  • Loris
    Board Member
    Loris Nov 2019 - Present
    New York, New York, Us
    Loris is an intelligence layer that helps customer teams successfully increase effective digital support – like messaging, SMS, and live chat – so they can lower costs while better serving customers who expect quality support anytime, anywhere they want to reach out.
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  • Exploratorium
    Trustee
    Exploratorium Mar 2019 - Present
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    The Exploratorium is a portal to the astonishing scientific phenomena that animate our world and shape our actions. Hailed by The New York Times Magazine as “one of the ten coolest museums in the world,” the Exploratorium is the global leader in science education and informal learning, designed to ignite curiosity and inspire creativity in people of all ages. It is a STEAM institution, an educational facility, and a community center.
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  • Very Good Security
    Board Member
    Very Good Security Aug 2018 - Present
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Very Good Security operates at the intersection of two high-growth, multi-billion dollar markets: data security and compliance. VGS fundamentally rethinks how businesses secure systems by removing sensitive data from the systems and securing it and all data processes behind it. This inherently makes systems easier to build and far more secure.
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  • Launchdarkly
    Board Member
    Launchdarkly Dec 2017 - Present
    Oakland, Ca, Us
    LaunchDarkly isn’t just a leader in feature management — it’s the first scalable feature management platform. Feature management allows development teams to innovate faster by fundamentally transforming how software is delivered to customers. Today, LaunchDarkly deploys peaks of 20 trillion feature flags each day, and that number continues to grow. LaunchDarkly has been named on the Forbes Cloud 100 list, InfoWorld’s 2021 Technology of the Year list, and the Enterprise Tech 30 list.
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  • Human
    Board Member
    Human Jan 2015 - Present
    New York, Ny, Us
    From being the very first investor at PerimeterX to 2022, when HUMAN and PerimeterX united In a market-changing merger to safeguard customers from sophisticated bot attacks, fraud and account abuse. With 77% of online security and fraud incidents being bot-based, the merger highlights the importance of identifying sophisticated bot attacks, fraud and account abuse before they impact enterprises across advertising, marketing, e-commerce and cybersecurity. The combined companies comprise more than 450 employees, have more than $100 million in ARR, 500+ customers, and have a market opportunity of more than $30 billion.
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  • Webmonsters
    Chairman
    Webmonsters 2006 - Present
    Palo Alto, Ca, Us
    Webmonsters is a unique forum for industry leaders, researchers and vendors to discuss the current and emerging trends in innovative operations and ground breaking engineering of Internet technologies.
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  • Valtix
    Board Member
    Valtix Mar 2018 - Feb 2023
    Santa Clara, Ca, Us
    Redefining network security in the enterprise cloud. Cisco acquired Valtix in February 2023, https://blogs.cisco.com/news/cisco-announces-corporate-news-2-24-23
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  • Coolan
    Co-Founder
    Coolan Nov 2013 - Aug 2016
    San Mateo, Ca, Us
    Coolan is a data-driven, community-based software platform that provides actionable insights about how your data center environment is performing. The company was acquired by Salesforce in 2016.
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  • Jive Software
    Board Member
    Jive Software 2011 - 2015
    Austin, Texas, Us
    Jive is the leading provider of modern communication and collaboration solutions for business. Our products apply powerful technology that helps employees, partners and customers work better together.
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  • Dupont Fabros
    Board Member
    Dupont Fabros 2011 - 2015
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    DFT was a real estate investment trust (REIT) and leading owner, developer, operator and manager of wholesale data centers. The company was acquired in 2017 by Digital Realty for $7.8B.
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  • Facebook
    Vp, Infrastructure & Technical Operations
    Facebook 2007 - 2012
    Privileged to have led diverse teams of over 400 responsible for architecting and operating Facebook’s infrastructure through radical user growth from 35M to 900M. These amazing people were responsible for engineering scalable infrastructure systems, reliable storage, global datacenters, supply chain, worldwide network, server platforms, and site reliability. Kickstarted Internet.org and the Open Compute Project.
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  • Open Networking Foundation
    Founding Board Member
    Open Networking Foundation Mar 2010 - Nov 2011
    Palo Alto, California, Us
    The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) is a nonprofit organization founded in 2010 by Deutsche Telekom, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Verizon and Yahoo dedicated to promoting a new approach to networking called Software-Defined Networking (SDN). SDN allows owners and operators of networks to control and manage their networks to best serve their users' needs.
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  • Sequoia Capital/Accel Partners/Index Ventures
    Technology Advisor
    Sequoia Capital/Accel Partners/Index Ventures 2005 - 2007
    I try to be more than a whiteboard fairy to a handful of venture funds and selected early stage companies. I've covered the spectrum from sourcing deals to completing diligence to helping entrepreneurs craft presentations to making investment recommendations and decisions. On the company front, I had my hands in a myriad of areas spanning recruiting, team coaching, negotiating vendor/partner deals, product strategy, systems & technology architecture and developing the engineering culture.A few of the companies I helped or am still involved with are Cloudera, WooMe, Clustrix, Cotendo, Qumranet (RedHat), YouTube (Google), Stardoll, Last.fm (CBS), Bubble Motion and YuMe Networks. I'm honored to be associated with the brilliant and hard working entrepreneurs creating these incredible companies.
  • Walmart
    Director, Site Engineering
    Walmart Jul 2004 - Sep 2005
    Bentonville, Arkansas, Us
    Responsible for all infrastructure and systems from the data center floor to the application platform for Walmart.com
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  • Danger, Inc.
    Vp, Service Engineering
    Danger, Inc. Mar 2002 - Nov 2003
    Now a part of Microsoft, Danger will continue to build great, intuitive client software for mobile handsets connected to powerful hosted back-end services that fosters rich consumer experiences in communication, media sharing, entertainment and personalization.
  • Loudcloud (Now Opsware, Inc.)
    Coo, Product Operations
    Loudcloud (Now Opsware, Inc.) 1999 - 2002
    Us
    VP, Operations - Oct '99 > May '00SVP, Operations - May '00 > Sept '00COO - Sept '00 > Oct '01EVP - Oct '01 > Jan '02
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  • Global Crossing Ventures
    Founder, Senior Vice President
    Global Crossing Ventures Feb 1999 - Oct 1999
    Broomfield, Colorado, Us
    Initiated an investment vehicle focused on early-stage technology companies for Frontier Communications, then Global Crossing. The portfolio we developed consisted of: Rotor Communications, Brightlink Networks, CCC Network Systems, Cereva Networks, Narus, Pluris, SpringTide (acq 7/00 by Lucent), Sonus Networks (NASDAQ:SONS) and NorthPoint Communications (IPO 5/99). Later investments included: Aravox Technologies, Granite Systems, Village Networks and Gold Wire Technology (acq 9/04 by Intelliden).
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  • Frontier Globalcenter
    Co-Founder, Cto
    Frontier Globalcenter 1996 - 1999
    Global Crossing acquired Frontier Communications who acquired GlobalCenter who acquired Internet Systems, Inc. Many business cards, one office.
  • Mfs Communications
    Senior Technical Staff
    Mfs Communications Apr 1995 - Jul 1996
    MAE-East, MAE-West, built & supported trading floor and exchange ATM/FR networks, acquired UUNET and stuff like that.

Jonathan Heiliger Skills

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