Timothy Chen

General Partner at Essence VC

📍 Greater Seattle Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2022𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Seed Investor
May 2022
Resourcely enables platform, security, and DevOps engineering teams to offer simple self-service to their developers. Self-service allows developers to move at the speed of the cloud while ensuring that best practices are met. Resourcely guardrails ensure infrastructure is set up correctly the first time, reducing fix campaigns and vulnerability management toil.
Seed Investor
Jul 2020
LaunchNotes provides product teams with the tools to communicate their updates effectively, ensuring internal teams and customers understand, engage with, and benefit from every feature release. With a full suite of tools for targeted product release announcements, feedback collection, shareable product roadmaps, and more, LaunchNotes helps product teams keep their customers, colleagues, and other key stakeholders securely connected to the product development lifecycle. LaunchNotes is trusted by some of today’s leading technology companies, including Square, CoreLogic, Eightfold, Langchain, Drata, and many others.
Seed Investor
Jun 2020
Signadot optimizes shared Kubernetes environments for seamless multi-tenancy, allowing developers to co-work without interference. By generating swift, quality feedback in the early software development stages, we help boost productivity. Trusted by customers like DoorDash and ShareChat, our platform simplifies testing and speeds up the route to production.
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2022
Seed Investor
May 2022
Resourcely enables platform, security, and DevOps engineering teams to offer simple self-service to their developers. Self-service allows developers to move at the speed of the cloud while ensuring that best practices are met. Resourcely guardrails ensure infrastructure is set up correctly the first time, reducing fix campaigns and vulnerability management toil.
2021
Operator Advisor
Oct 2021
Bessemer Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs lay strong foundations from inception to build long-standing companies. With more than 155 IPOs and 450-plus portfolio companies across industries, Bessemer supports founders and CEOs from seed through every stage of growth. Bessemer has backed industry defining companies including Anthropic, Abridge, Canva, LinkedIn, Perplexity, Pinterest, RocketLab, Shopify, ServiceTitan, Toast, and Twilio, and has $20 billion of assets under management. Bessemer invests globally, with investment teams located in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, London, Bangalore, and Tel Aviv.
2020
Seed Investor
Jul 2020
LaunchNotes provides product teams with the tools to communicate their updates effectively, ensuring internal teams and customers understand, engage with, and benefit from every feature release. With a full suite of tools for targeted product release announcements, feedback collection, shareable product roadmaps, and more, LaunchNotes helps product teams keep their customers, colleagues, and other key stakeholders securely connected to the product development lifecycle. LaunchNotes is trusted by some of today’s leading technology companies, including Square, CoreLogic, Eightfold, Langchain, Drata, and many others.
Seed Investor
Jun 2020
Signadot optimizes shared Kubernetes environments for seamless multi-tenancy, allowing developers to co-work without interference. By generating swift, quality feedback in the early software development stages, we help boost productivity. Trusted by customers like DoorDash and ShareChat, our platform simplifies testing and speeds up the route to production.
Principal Engineer
May 2020
The AI development platform - From idea to AI, Lightning fast ⚡️. Code together. Prototype. Train on GPUs. Scale. Serve. From your browser - with zero setup. AI Studio is your laptop on the cloud. Zero setup. Always ready. Persistent storage and environments. Code on CPU. Debug on GPU. Scale to multi-node. Run sweeps, jobs and more. Scale models with PyTorch Lightning, Fabric, Lit-GPT, torchmetrics and more.
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