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Tim Schigel

Founder of Great Lakes Investor Association

Cincinnati, Ohio

Overview 

Tim Schigel is the Managing Partner at Refinery Ventures in Cincinnati, Ohio, with a background in investing in post-seed and Series A startups within sectors like IoT, Consumer Internet, and SaaS. Notable highlights of his career include co-founding the Great Lakes Venture Capital Association and serving on the boards of multiple companies like RedCircle and StoryTap.

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.

  • Board Member

    2019

Folio Photonics reinvents archival storage with optical storage technology.

Raised $12,606,996.00 from Refinery Ventures and Capital One Ventures.

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