# Tristan Handy

> Tristan Handy is a seed investor at dbt Labs backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 26 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [dbt Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dbt-labs)
- Location: Philadelphia, United States
- Total investments: 26
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tristanhandy/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/jthandy
- Website: https://x.com/jthandy

Tristan Handy is a seed investor at dbt Labs in Philadelphia focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Tristan Handy is based out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is the CEO & Founder of dbt Labs. Tristan previously worked at RJMetrics as a VP of Marketing. Tristan Handy attended the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $4.1M–$13M |
| Series A | $13M–$23M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 12 | 46% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 12 | 46% |
| Analytics | 10 | 38% |
| Information Technology | 8 | 31% |
| Open Source | 6 | 23% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 12 | 46% |
| Series A | 11 | 42% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 12% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 16 | 62% |
| Canada | 2 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 8% |
| France | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SkyPilot | SkyPilot is an open-source framework for running AI and batch workloads on any infra. | $20M | Seed | Jul 21, 2026 |  |
| Bespoke Labs | Bespoke Labs is an applied artificial intelligence research company that develops reinforcement learning environments, data curation systems, and infrastructure for training and evaluating AI agents. The company builds simulation environments that mirror real-world software systems, enabling organizations to improve the reliability and performanceof AI agents in production settings. It also develops tools for agent evaluation, prompt optimization, benchmarking, and reinforcement learning research, alongside open datasets and evaluation frameworks for AI model development. Bespoke Labs collaborates with AI research organizations and enterprises to support the development, testing, and optimization of long-horizon AI agents for complex workflows. | $31.8M | Series A | Jul 06, 2026 |  |
| Kepler | The platform that makes AI defensible. | $7.3M | Seed | Apr 14, 2025 |  |
| Gable | Gable is a B2B data infrastructure SaaS that offers a platform for collaboration to write and execute data contracts. Gable supports communication between data providers and consumers using data contracts, assisting companies to increase data quality at scale. | $20M | Series A | Mar 31, 2025 |  |
| Mastra | Mastra is an AI software that helps users to typescript complex operations and complete set of work using AI. | $13M | Seed | Mar 12, 2025 |  |
| Speckle | Speckle is a collaborative data hub connecting various AEC (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) tools, facilitating effective global project delivery for teams. The company promotes an open ecosystem aimed at overcoming the challenges of working in a fragmented industry, providing digital infrastructure for 3D designs such as buildings andbridges. | $12.5M | Series A | Oct 25, 2024 |  |
| Letta | Letta specializes in memory management technology, enabling AI models to remember users and conversations. Its featured products include Hosted Cloud and Lett_ API. Hosted Cloud creates, deploys, and manages agents at scale with Letta Cloud. Also, its Lett_ API adds memory to LLM services to give them reasoning capabilities and transparentlong-term memory powered by MemGPT. | $10M | Seed | Sep 23, 2024 |  |
| Kestra Technologies | Kestra is an infinitely scalable orchestration and scheduling platform, creating, running, scheduling, and monitoring millions of complex pipelines. | $7.7M | Series A | Sep 23, 2024 |  |
| Kestra Technologies | Kestra is an infinitely scalable orchestration and scheduling platform, creating, running, scheduling, and monitoring millions of complex pipelines. | $8M | Seed | Sep 23, 2024 |  |
| Patronus AI | Patronus AI develops simulation research and infrastructure aimed at accelerating the progress towards human-aligned artificial general intelligence (AGI). The company provides evaluation models and tools designed to detect issues such as hallucinations, safety risks, and reasoning failures, as well as support custom evaluation workflows. PatronusAI also offers datasets, benchmarking capabilities, and automated evaluators for text, image, and multimodal AI applications. In addition, it conducts research on digital world models and simulation environments intended to support the training and assessment of increasingly capable AI agents. | $17M | Series A | May 22, 2024 |  |

10 of 26 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Craft Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craft-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Amplify Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amplify-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [GTMfund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gtmfund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About dbt Labs

VC Fund · Philadelphia, United States

Dbt Labs is a developer of an open-source analytics engineering tool driven by a mission to help analysts create and disseminate organizational knowledge. Its platform enables data analysts to easily create and disseminate organizational knowledge through data modeling, thereby allowing clients with SQL knowledge to build data transformationworkflows.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

5 contacts available at dbt Labs.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Julia Schottenstein | Product | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julia-schottenstein |
| Alexandra Bethea | Customer Support Lead | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexandra-bethea |
| Austin Stefani | Chief Revenue Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/austin-stefani-5c85 |
| Connor McArthur | CTO and Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/connor-mcarthur |
| Drew Banin | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/drew-banin |

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## FAQ

### What does Tristan Handy invest in?

Tristan Handy invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 26 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 Tristan Handy's check size?

Tristan Handy typically joins rounds of $4.1M–$13M at Seed and $13M–$23M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Tristan Handy participates in.

### When did Tristan Handy last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Tristan Handy closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 26 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?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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