Partner
Jesse Heikkilä
General Partner, Failup Ventures
- Firm
- Failup Ventures
- Title
- General Partner
- Role
- General partner
- Location
- San Francisco
- Known as
- Investor
Record updated 29 September 2026
About
Jesse is an investor with an entrepreneurial background. He was the technical founder in a SaaS management software & marketplace for racket sports. He built and ran the company in the US, and ended up merging with a Spanish company, Playtomic. At Playtomic he lead product development, built modern frontend development teams and was involved in many M&A deals from evaluation, due diligence to integration post-purchase. Jesse has been there in the early days with no team, hired, built and reorganized teams and been through the transition to a hyper-growth scaleup. After Playtomic he built projects for modern remote hiring platforms, ephemeral staging deployments for microservice architecture and worked as an EiR for a corporate venture building. At Failup Ventures he is passionate about helping founders take their early-stage companies to the next level. He leads Failup's US operations and is based in San Francisco.
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