Investing Profile

Timothy Chen(334)

VCAngelInvestor

Managing Partner at Essence Venture Capital

essencevc.fundSeattle, Washington

Your Intro Paths to Timothy Chen

Signal uses Gmail to reveal intro paths. Email content is never read.

Timothy Chen's investing connections

Connected to 20 investors on Signal.

Networks Timothy is a member of

University of Washington Network

148 CONNECTIONS

University of Washington Network

148 CONNECTIONS

Bessemer Venture Partners Network

146 CONNECTIONS

My Perfect Sale (acquired by Sugar, Inc) Network

131 CONNECTIONS

Cloudera Network

21 CONNECTIONS

Find Timothy Chen on

Current Investing Position

Essence Venture Capital Managing Partner

Investment Range

$100K - $10.0M

Sweet Spot

$1M

Investments On Record

Timothy Chen is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Cloud Infrastructure (Series A)Cloud Infrastructure (Seed)Web3/Blockchain (Seed)Web3/Blockchain (Series A)Seattle / Portland AI (Seed)AI (Series A)Enterprise (Series A)Enterprise (Seed)

Timothy Chen's Investments On Record (16)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Infracost	Series ANov 2025$19M	$22M
Co-investors: Bogomil Balkansky (Sequoia Capital), Robin Vasan (Mayfield), Ludwig Schulze (Alumni Ventures ), Sudip Chakrabarti (Decibel Partners), Yun-Fang Juan (Brighter Capital)
Salus Cloud	SeedJun 2025$4M	$4M
Co-investors: Anna Barber (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Jenny Fielding (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Scott Hartley (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund))
Recce	Pre SeedApr 2025$4M	$4M
Co-investors: Jesse Robbins (Heavybit Industries), In Sik Rhee (Rembrandt Venture Partners)
Nuon	Series ADec 2024$17M SeedDec 2022	$17M
Co-investors: Alex Bard (Redpoint Ventures), Andy McLoughlin (Uncork Capital), Patrick Chase (Redpoint Ventures), Meera Oak (Alumni Ventures ), Nkechi Iregbulem (Modyfi), Sandy Cass (Red Swan Ventures), James Wu (M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund), Quinn Slack
Platform Engineering Labs	Pre SeedDec 2024
Co-investors: Dominik Tobschall (backtrace capital), David Zwagemaker (Peak Venture Capital (Peak Ventures))
Restate	SeedJun 2024$7M	$7M
Co-investors: Jordan Segall (Redpoint Ventures), Andrew Van Nest (Exceptional Capital), Erica Brescia (XFactor Ventures), Guy Fighel (Hetz Ventures), Chris Schagen (Self-employed), Jan Sessenhausen (Cusp Capital Partners), Sam Endacott (Northzone), Neha Narkhede, Ameet Patel
Coana (acquired by Socket)	Pre SeedJan 2024$2M	$2M
Co-investors: Bogomil Balkansky (Sequoia Capital)
Commsor	Series BMar 2022$50M	$66M
Co-investors: Terrence Rohan (Index Ventures), Gina Bianchini (Andreessen Horowitz), Zachary Sims (Bowery Capital), Niki Pezeshki (Felicis Ventures), Ben Hassler (Polymath Capital Partners), Drew Austin (Red Beard Ventures), Jesse Middleton (Flybridge Capital Partners), Andreas Klinger (Remote First Capital), Tod Sacerdoti (Flex Capital, LLC // Turbo Ventures, LLC), Elad Gil (Gil Capital / Gil & Co), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Lolita Taub (Ganas Ventures), Ben Tossell (Ben Tossell's Rolling Fund), Alex Pattis (Riverside Ventures), Julia DeWahl (Elkhorn Ranch), Julie Herendeen (Broadway Angels), David Peterson (Angular Ventures), Jonathan Hillis (Seed Club Ventures), Ankur Nagpal (Vibe Capital), Brian Murray (Craft Ventures), Carter Adamson (Atomico), Nkechi Iregbulem (Modyfi), Ben Lang (Notion Capital), Tristan Pollock (Cool Climate Collective), Andrew Gazdecki (500 Global), Peter Kazanjy, Casey Neistat, Sam Corcos, Mathilde Collin

most interested in

Deep Technology in preferably enterprise space, but also open to consumer as well.

not interested in

Healthcare, Lifescience.

Timothy Chen's Experience

Apache Foundation Member Apache Software FoundationPresent

Software Development Engineer II 343 IndustriesPresent

Software Development Engineer II My Perfect Sale (acquired by Sugar, Inc)Present

Apache Foundation Member The Apache Software FoundationPresent

Lead Distributed Systems Engineer Mesosphere, Inc.Present

Lead Distributed Systems Engineer Borderland Engineering, Inc.Present

Advisor DataManPresent

Advisor Composure.aiPresent

Principal Software Engineer Sense Platform (acquired by Cloudera)Present

Principal Software Engineer ClouderaPresent

SVP of Engineering TendermintPresent

SVP of Engineering All in Bits (AiB)Present

Advisor MagalixPresent

Advisor Rupert.Present

Principal Engineer Lightning AIPresent

Seed Investor SignadotPresent

Seed Investor LaunchNotesPresent

Co-host Open Source Startup PodcastPresent

Operator Advisor Bessemer Venture PartnersPresent

Consultant Polygon LabsPresent

Seed Investor Resourcely (acquired by Anysphere)Present

Co-host The Infra PodPresent

CEO & Cofounder HyperpilotPresent

Managing Partner Essence Venture CapitalPresent

CEO Hyperpilot2016 - 2018

Timothy Chen's Education

University of Washington B.S., Informatics Informatics

University of Washington

Investors who invest with Timothy Chen

Scouts & Angels Affiliated With Timothy Chen