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Heroku

YC Winter 2008 Acquired

Enabling developers to build and run applications in the cloud.

http://heroku.com ↗
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Your thesis: “We back exceptional technical founders building AI-first products and infrastructure, deploying $100K checks within 24 hours.”

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People

Orion Henry
11.2
low confidence
James Lindenbaum
11.2
low confidence
Adam Wiggins
11.2
low confidence
Joseph Sciarrino career mapped
CEO, Hydra Former PM @ MSFT Azure Open-Source Databases team. Heroku (W08) and Citus Data (S11) alum
22.2
medium confidence
Noah Zoschke career mapped
Serial startup hacker. CTO at Housecat. Early Heroku (acquired by Salesforce), CTO at Convox (YC S15), Segment (Acquired by Twil
31.2
medium confidence

Activity & evidence

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