Investing Profile

Tim Seears(49)

VCFounderAngelFormer CEO
Venture Partner at VU Venture Partners
United Kingdom
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Tim Seears's investing connections

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Connected to Sundeep Ahuja (Climate Capital).

Networks Tim is a member of
Columbia University - Columbia Business School Network
176 CONNECTIONS
Columbia Business School Network
160 CONNECTIONS
Columbia Business School Network
160 CONNECTIONS
UCL Network
104 CONNECTIONS
Founder Institute Network
102 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
VU Venture Partners Venture Partner
Investment Range
$100K - $1M
Sweet Spot
$500K
Investments On Record
8

Tim Seears is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

AgTech (Series A)Impact (Seed)TransportationTech (Series B)Space (Series B)Robotics (Series B)EnergyTech (Series B)AgTech (Series B)ClimateTech/CleanTech (Series B)Impact (Series B)AI (Series B)SaaS (Series B)Robotics (Seed)DeepTech (Series B)AgTech (Seed)TransportationTech (Series A)TransportationTech (Seed)ClimateTech/CleanTech (Series A)EnergyTech (Series A)EnergyTech (Seed)ClimateTech/CleanTech (Seed)Impact (Series A)Robotics (Series A)Space (Series A)Space (Seed)Diverse InvestorsInvestors who were foundersInvestors who invested in female foundersAI (Seed)Investors who invested in diverse foundersAI (Series A)New York CitySan Francisco Bay AreaCanadaAngel, Scout, and Solo-CapitalistsImpact (Pre-seed)DeepTech (Series A)DeepTech (Seed)TransportationTech (Pre-seed)EnergyTech (Pre-seed)AgTech (Pre-seed)Space (Pre-seed)Robotics (Pre-seed)DeepTech (Pre-seed)ClimateTech/CleanTech (Pre-seed)AI (Pre-seed)SaaS (Pre-seed)SaaS (Series A)SaaS (Seed)

Tim Seears's Investments On Record (7)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Colossal Bioscience
Series ANov 2021$50M
$53M
Co-investors: Will Weisman (KittyHawk Ventures), Ryan Merket (Jude AI)
Hypervolt
SeedJun 2021$1.5M
$1.5M
Co-investors: Nick Fragnito (Shorewind Capital)
Spira
SeedN/A
$100K
Co-investors: Bill Liao (SOSV), Landon Young (Elevate Ventures), Arye Lipman (MarsBio)
INTERSTELLAR LAB
SeedN/A
$6M
Co-investors: Andrew J Scott (7percent Ventures), Adeo Ressi (Founder Institute), Bruno Maisonnier (Ganymed Robotics), Anji ISMAIL (Leonis Capital), Rand Hindi, Thibaud Elziere, Charles-Edouard Bouee, Maxime Paradis
Electric Era
Seed RoundN/A
Sunswap
Series AN/A
SeedN/A
$28M
Co-investors: Stephen Price (Clean Growth Fund)
Retro Biosciences
Series AN/A
$180M
Co-investors: Sam Altman

most interested in

Impact & exponential startups combating climate change including ag-tech, energy-tech, climate-tech, and space-tech, AI and robotics.

Tim Seears's Experience

Venture Partner VU Venture Partners2026 - Present
Angel Investor Fourth State Ventures2018 - Present
Operations Engineer - Cassini Spacecraft NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryPresent
Research Assistant - Astrophysicist Imperial College Public Awareness and Social Service SocietyPresent
Lead Technical Architect / Lead Software Engineer Key CriteriaPresent
Vice President, AI - Think Big, a Teradata Company TeradataPresent
Angel Investor DePaul UniversityPresent
Chief Product Officer, AI & Analytics InnowellPresent
Entrepreneur in Residence AI ForgePresent
Director & Founder DePaul UniversityPresent
CTO & Co-Founder DePaul UniversityPresent
CEO & Founder, Asia-Pacific - Think Big, a Teradata Company TeradataPresent
Venture Partner InovexusPresent
Venture Partner - Frontier Tech VU Venture PartnersPresent
Venture Partner Inovexus Ventures2022 - 2026
Entrepreneur in Residence Founder Institute2020 - 2024
Chief Product Officer / Chief Digital Officer Innowell2019 - 2020
CEO & Founder, Asia-Pacific - Think Big Analytics Teradata2016 - 2018
VP Emerging Technology - Think Big Analytics Teradata2016 - 2016
CTO & Co-Founder Big Data Partnership, Ltd2012 - 2016
Operations Engineer NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration2003 - 2009

Tim Seears's Education

Bournemouth University BEng(Hons) Electronic Engineering & Software Engineering
Columbia Business School Executive Education Venture Capital Programme
Columbia University - Columbia Business School Executive Education Venture Capital Programme
UCL MSc Astrophysics
Bournemouth University BEng(Hons) Electronic Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign MBA
University College London MSc Astrophysics
Bournemouth University BEng Electronic Engineering
Columbia Business School Executive Education Venture Capital