Tim Thimmaiah
Chief Executive Officer at Type Five
Oakland, California
Overview
Work Experience
Chief Executive Officer
2023 - Current
We design and build beautiful homes using software.
Advisor
2020
Helping early-stage founders build amazing consumer-focused companies.
Entrepreneur In Residence
2022 - 2023
Supporting and advising new initiatives on the frontier of the creator economy.
Director of Product
2020 - 2022
Built and led the launch of Eventbrite Boost, a holistic marketing platform for creators. Led the product strategy and launch of Eventbrite Ads, a new ads platform and technology to help event creators reach their audiences across the Eventbrite marketplace.
Eventbrite develops an online platform that lets users find and create events.
Raised $557,250,000.00 from Francisco Partners.
Chief Executive Officer
2015 - 2020
Acquired by Eventbrite in 2020. A platform that automates social marketing for over 1M+ creators, brands, and businesses around the world.
Senior Product Manager
2012 - 2014
Built one of the first cloud based CAD/CAM apps for genetic design enabling rapid prototyping for designing and engineering biologics.
TeselaGen Biotechnology develops DNA design and assembly tools for biology.
Raised $4,096,000.00 from Endeavor Miami.
Research Affiliate
2011 - 2013
Built an open source application that allows users to develop RNA gene regulation devices. With the application of RNA transcript design techniques, I worked to develop a design tool for creating gene regulation devices.
Berkeley Lab is a national laboratory that creates advanced new tools for scientific discovery.
Program Director, Project for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
2011 - 2012
The Project for Innovation and Entrepreneurship is a collaboration between the City of Santa Cruz and UCSC designed to support a culture of entrepreneurship by placing select student interns into high tech and green tech startups.
Developer, Government 2.0 Task Force
2010 - 2011
I worked with the City of Santa Cruz's Redevelopment Agency to create applications to streamline city data for easy access and visibility. Bringing technology to old city practices will increase efficiency and the ability to use these data models to improve how the city runs. I also was a part of Santa Cruz Gov 2.0 Task Force to analyze how technology can solve the city's key problems.
City of Santa Cruz is a city in the state of California.
Researcher, Product Development
2010 - 2011
At WISE Solutions, I was involved in several bio-related research projects, contributed to earning research grants, and helped to develop alternative solutions for harmful pesticides and lubricants.
Freelance Design & Development
2008 - 2011
This includes projects that involve freelance web development, user interface design, and other tech related adventures.