Timothy Chen
General Partner at Essence Investor
Greater Seattle Area
Overview
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
Co-host
2021
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.