# Dana Oshiro

> Dana Oshiro is General Partner at Heavybit, San Francisco's specialist fund for developer-first and cloud infrastructure startups. She joined in 2014 as the firm's original Operating Partner and has since helped launch 60+ developer products, led early positioning for companies like Snyk, LaunchDarkly, Netlify, CircleCI, and PagerDuty, and co-founded the DevGuild conference series. Before tech, she worked in public health and political strategy in Canada, including campaigns to establish North America's first safe injection site. Her investment sweet spot is $1.5M at pre-seed to Series A, backing technical founders building category-defining enterprise infrastructure.

- **Role:** General Partner at Heavybit
- **Organizations:** Heavybit, Yetto (board), Everfund (board), Figure (angel)
- **Nationality:** Canadian
- **Education:** BA in Literature, University of Victoria, PR and Communications, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, NVCA VC University Certificate, UC Berkeley
- **Known for:** Led early positioning and launches for 50+ leading developer companies including Snyk, LaunchDarkly, Netlify, CircleCI, and PagerDuty, Co-founded the bi-annual DevGuild conference series, Helped build major software-driven movements including Jamstack and DevSecOps

## Career timeline

- **Early career** — Public health and political strategist, Government of British Columbia - managed $20M public safety and advertising budget
- **Early career** — Co-organized one of the earliest homeless counts to establish North America's first safe injection site
- **Early career** — Helped enact the nation's first statewide biomonitoring bill
- **Pre-2014** — Marketing and community roles at Code for America
- **Pre-2014** — Marketing at NetShelter, acquired by Ziff Davis
- **Pre-2014** — Roles at Heroku and Salesforce
- **2014** — Joined Heavybit as the firm's original Operating Partner
- **2014-present** — Built and manages Heavybit's 600+ advisor network, content operations, Speaker Series, podcasting network, and diversity initiatives
- **2022** — Co-led Heavybit's $80M fund raise from developer tools unicorn founders
- **2022-present** — Serves as General Partner at Heavybit, investing $750K-$5M at pre-seed to Series A
- **2024** — Spoke at CFE.dev on developer-first startups; appeared on Scaling DevTools podcast
- **Ongoing** — Board member at Yetto and Everfund; angel investor at Figure

## Achievements

- Led early positioning and launches for 50+ leading developer companies including Snyk, LaunchDarkly, Netlify, CircleCI, and PagerDuty
- Co-founded the bi-annual DevGuild conference series
- Helped build major software-driven movements including Jamstack and DevSecOps
- Launched 60+ developer-first products
- Produced hundreds of onstage events and thousands of educational resources at Heavybit
- Built Heavybit's 600+ domain-specific advisor network
- Helped close Heavybit's $80M Fund IV in 2022
- Spoke at CES, DockerCon, TEDx, DevRelCon, and SxSW Interactive
- Co-organized one of the earliest homeless counts to establish North America's first safe injection site
- Helped enact the nation's first statewide biomonitoring bill

## Latest updates

- **2024-08** — Spoke at CFE.dev on developer-first startups
- **2024-04** — Appeared on Scaling DevTools podcast discussing VC and developer tools investing
- **2025** — Featured in BBG Ventures Breakfast Series discussions on Vertical AI
- **2022-09** — Heavybit closed $80M Fund IV backed by developer tools unicorn founders

## Links

- Website: https://heavybit.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/danaoshiro
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/danaoshiro
- GitHub: https://github.com/danaoshiro
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danaoshiro/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heavybitindustries

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Last updated: 2026-05-19