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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

    We work with deeply technical founders to bridge the gap between ground breaking technology and venture scale business

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

  • Co-host

    2024

  • 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.

  • 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)

  • Principal Engineer

    2020 - 2021

    Company behind Pytorch lightning <10 employee working on v1 of the enterprise product and platform

The lightweight PyTorch wrapper for ML researchers. Scale your models. Write less boilerplate.

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