Jonathan Heiliger

General Partner

2015 - Current

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.

Trustee

2019

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.

Board Member

2021

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.

Board Member

2021

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.

Board Member

2020

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.

Advisory Committee

2020

Board Member

2019

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.

Board Member

2018

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.

Board Member

2017

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.

Board Member

2015

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.