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Timothy Chen

Managing Partner

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Essence Venture Capital

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About

Started Essence VC to start a fund I wish I have on my cap table when I was running a infra startup Twitter: @tnachen

Experience

Managing PartnerEssence Venture Capital
Dec 2019
Co-hostThe Infra Pod
Aug 2024
Co-hostOpen Source Startup Podcast
Feb 2021
Apache Foundation MemberThe Apache Software Foundation
Jan 2013
Operator AdvisorBessemer Venture Partners
Oct 2021
Seed InvestorLaunchNotes
Jul 2020
Software EngineerSakin AI Basic company page — company details not listed yet
Jan 2010 to Jan 2011
Seed InvestorSignadot
Jun 2020
Seed InvestorResourcely (acquired by Anysphere)
May 2022
ConsultantPolygon Labs
May 2022 to Nov 2022
Principal EngineerLightning AI
May 2020 to Oct 2021
SVP of EngineeringAll in Bits (AiB)
Aug 2019 to Mar 2020
Principal Software EngineerCloudera
Jun 2018 to Jul 2019
CEO & CofounderHyperpilot
Aug 2016 to Jul 2018
Lead Distributed Systems EngineerMesosphere
Apr 2014 to Jul 2016
Software Development Engineer II343 Industries Basic company page — company details not listed yet
Jan 2013 to Feb 2014
Member of Technical Staff III, CloudFoundryVMware
Feb 2012 to Feb 2013
Software DeveloperZ2Live Basic company page — company details not listed yet
Jan 2011 to Feb 2012
Software Development EngineerMicrosoft
Jan 2008 to Jan 2010

Education

University of Washington
B.S. Informatics
DigiPen Institute of Technology
Computer Science