Tim Schigel
Founder of Great Lakes Investor Association
Cincinnati, Ohio
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2017 - Current
We invest in early scale companies – bridging the gap and mentoring our teams between post-seed and Series A funding.
Co-Founder
2024
A rising tide lifts all boats. An exclusive VC community for Managing Partners and General Partners to collaborate, build trust, share deals, and co-invest. GLVCA is dedicated to fostering a thriving venture capital network within the heartland.
Investor
2021
Vantage Robotics is a technology company that makes aerial videos easy for commercial operations over people.
Raised $40,132,484.00 from CSC Upshot, Veteran Ventures Capital and SeedInvest.
Board Member
2021
RedCircle empowers the podcaster community with powerful tools to support them in their efforts to grow, earn money, and be heard.
Raised $9,500,000.00 from Refinery Ventures, EPIC Ventures, Justin Wohlstadter, George Strompolos, Bloomberg Beta, Eckart Walther, SignalFire and AperiamVentures.
Board Member
2021
Investor
2020
Board Member
2019
Investor
2019
Astronomer develops a data orchestration platform that helps with the deployment, management, and scaling of distributed airflow services.
Raised $282,900,000.00 from Meritech Capital Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Insight Partners, Sierra Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, JP Morgan, K5 Global, Venrock and FirstMark.
Advisor
2019
Board Member
2019
Folio Photonics reinvents archival storage with optical storage technology.
Raised $12,606,996.00 from Refinery Ventures and Capital One Ventures.
Education
BSEE
1985 - 1989