# Russ Heddleston

> Russ Heddleston is a seed investor backing Software. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/heddleston
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/rheddleston
- Website: http://russheddleston.com/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/rh

Russ Heddleston is a seed investor in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. More about me at https://distill.fyi/p/Russ_Heddleston.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3M–$11M |
| Pre-Seed | $750k–$2.7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 56% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 33% |
| B2B | 2 | 22% |
| SaaS | 2 | 22% |
| Communities | 2 | 22% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 44% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 44% |
| Series A | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 67% |
| Germany | 2 | 22% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LittleBird | LittleBird develops an AI assistant that reads user screens to capture context and automate tasks. | $11M | Seed | Mar 23, 2026 | https://x.com/LittlebirdAI |
| Strings | Strings is a developer-first continuous localization software startup that can be implemented in minutes instead of weeks/months. The platform provides pre-built API integrations at the codebase level so developers can simply "turn on" localization hassle free. The translation engine technology is powered by huge LLMs such asOpenAI's GPT-4 and optimized to produce human quality translations. |  | Pre-Seed | Nov 20, 2023 | https://www.strings.dev/ |
| Minoa | Minoa is a collaborative value management tool that assists SaaS companies in selling value over the whole client lifecycle. Minoa is improving the buying experience and improving the performance of every sales professional. | $2.7M | Pre-Seed | May 23, 2023 | https://www.minoa.io |
| Salsa | Salsa is building a payroll API that can be embedded into software platforms. Its platform is designed to suit the needs of today's workforce and includes a payroll service. The company's platform provides a modern payroll Application Programming Interface, supports a wide range of payroll use cases without overloading frontend code withbusiness logic, and allows businesses to easily embed payroll workflows into the platform, allowing them to build a payroll solution that suits their customers, where employees are paid and compliance is handled. | $10M | Series A | May 10, 2023 | https://www.salsa.dev |
| crowd.dev | Founded in 2021, crowd.dev is a community-led growth platform for developer-first companies. It is a suite of tools to analyze, grow, and leverage online communities to drive business results. crowd.dev is open-source, and users can choose between a self-hosted or hosted version. It is open to extensions and provides users complete control overtheir community's data. | $2.2M | Pre-Seed | Oct 28, 2022 | https://www.crowd.dev/ |
| Fides | Fides is your one-stop-shop for corporate governance.We are making it easier for managers to comply with, digitally execute and track their legal obligations across different companies in various jurisdictions. Keep an overview of duties, deadlines and tasks in all entities and committees. Orchestrate, execute and document resolutions,approvals and meetings. Create a revision-proof audit trail of any duty fulfilled and decision made.We know you have good intentions. You just need to be able to prove them. | $3.3M | Seed | Oct 12, 2022 | https://www.fides.technology |
| Lucky Sweater | Lucky Sweater is a community app that makes it easy & fun for people with shared passions to buy, sell, trade together. Reddit for commerce. | $750K | Pre-Seed | Sep 16, 2021 | https://www.luckysweater.com/ |
| Mutiny | Most Marketing teams can’t play a meaningful role in breaking through to target accounts because the 1:1 marketing strategies that work don’t scale, and what scales doesn’t work.Mutiny helps B2B companies generate pipeline and revenue from their target accounts through AI-powered personalized experiences, 1:1 microsites, and account intelligence.We are backed by Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global, Insight Partners, and Y Combinator. | $3M | Seed | Sep 15, 2018 | https://www.mutinyhq.com |

8 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Angel Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-invest-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Auxxo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/auxxo) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [Forum Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forumventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Greycroft](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greycroft) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Russ Heddleston invest in?

Russ Heddleston invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and B2B startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Russ Heddleston's check size?

Russ Heddleston typically joins rounds of $3M–$11M at Seed and $750k–$2.7M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Russ Heddleston participates in.

### How do I contact Russ Heddleston?

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### When did Russ Heddleston last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Russ Heddleston closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 9 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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