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Timothy Chen

General Partner at Essence Investor

Greater Seattle Area

Overview 

Timothy Chen is a General Partner at Essence VC in the Greater Seattle Area, specializing in investing in various sectors including Web3/Blockchain, Cloud Infrastructure, Enterprise, and AI at stages such as Series A and Seed. With a background in server architecture and scalability, he has successfully invested in companies like Restate and Commsor, showcasing his expertise in identifying and supporting high-potential startups.

Work Experience 

  • Managing Partner

    2019 - Current

    The early stage dev tools and data infra specialist fund.

Enterprise fund focusing on 1st time technical founders building in the infra / developer space

  • Apache Foundation Member

    2013

    Apache Member Apache Incubator PMC (Mentor: Apache ServiceComb, Apache TVM) Apache PMC Apache Mesos (mesos.apache.org), Apache Drill (drill.apache.org)

Apache Software Foundation provides organizational, legal and financial support for Apache open-source software projects.

  • Operator Advisor

    2021

BVP Forge operates as a private equity firm that focuses on software-enabled businesses.

  • Advisor

    2020

Rupert is the leading analytics distribution platform, solving the last mile problem in analytics by driving business outcomes from insights

Raised $8,000,000.00 from Cortical Ventures, Bob Moore, Labor Capital, Citi Ventures, Joule Ventures, Jake Stein, IA Ventures and Christopher Lynch.

  • Seed Investor

    2020

The Product Success Platform. Advancing and accelerating the product teams of today, so they can build the great technologies of tomorrow.

Raised $16,800,000.00 from Cowboy Ventures, Sri Viswanath, Bull City Venture Partners, Sean Regan, Daniel Liem, Viral Bajaria, Akash Garg, The New Normal Fund, Atlassian Ventures and Nick Mehta.

  • Seed Investor

    2020

Signadot is a Kubernetes-native platform to "shift left" testing for microservices and enable 10x faster feedback cycles for developers

Raised $4,150,000.00 from Y Combinator, Charles Zedlewski, John Kodumal, Redpoint, Timothy Chen, Christopher Golda, Adam Gross, Jason Warner, Sebastien Pahl and Bossa Invest.

  • Seed Investor

    2022

Resourcely lets you provision resource templates that are secure and compliant by design.

Raised $8,300,000.00 from Spencer Kimball, Clint Gibler, Chris Post, Felicis, Michael Coates, Leif Dreizler, Ryland Goldstein, Anna Westelius, Bryant Zadegan and Jason S. Martin.

  • Consultant

    2022 - 2022

    Working on Miden (zero-knowledge proof based VM)

  • Advisor

    2019 - 2022

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