# Tim Connors

> Tim Connors is a seed investor at Platform Studio (San Francisco) backing Software and SaaS. See 30 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Platform Studio](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/platform-studio)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 30
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 70%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/timothyjconnors
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/timc
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tconnors

Tim Connors is a seed investor at Platform Studio in San Francisco focused on Software and SaaS. Tim Connors is Founder and General Partner at digital video, and at Tandem was the youngest member of an elite design team that built Tandem's flagship Everest server line.Tim conceived of and co-founded Spoke.com. He has worked closely with entrepreneurs at Guidewire Software (NASDAQ: GWRE), SupplierMarket.com (acquired by Ariba), Adify (acquired by Cox Enterprises), ClickShift.com(acquired by WebTrends), Redline Communications (TSE: REDL), StorePerform (acquired by Red Prairie), Trovix.com (acquired by Monster.com), RevolutionMoney (acquired by American Express), , Blekko.com, Media6Degrees.com, and Readyforce.com.Tim serves on the Board of Advisors of the Gigot Center for Entrepreneurship at Notre Dame and as a Director on the Stanford University Daper Venture Investment Fund.Tim received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame, an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Stanford University, and an M.B.A from Harvard Business School.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 20% |
| SaaS | 4 | 13% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 13% |
| Big Data | 3 | 10% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 10% |

67 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 12 | 40% |
| Pre-Seed | 8 | 27% |
| Series A | 3 | 10% |
| Series C | 2 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 7% |

7 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| TIKI | Zero-party data monetization. License, manage, and add ZPD to any stack —unlock value in your user-base. Join hundreds of developers creating data programs users love. Use TIKI's infrastructure to license data from YOUR users to increase opt-ins, maintain compliance, create revenue streams, train algorithms, and more.Programatic,enforceable, and scalable —user data stays in YOUR system. Use TIKI's SDKs to capture consent, and create licenses at your application layer Use TIKI's APIs to manage and enforce data rights, regardless of backend. Backed by immutable, digitally signed (by you and your user), data contracts. |  | Pre-Seed | Mar 01, 2025 |  |
| Vinly.co | Firefly is a two-way real time messaging platform empowered by generative AI to help individuals scale and build their own communities. | $400K | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2025 |  |
| Yelo | A platform exclusive to your college community. No strangers. No surge. | $700K | Pre-Seed | Oct 24, 2024 |  |
| FutureAI | Waymo For Your Interface. FutureAI is an AI layer on top of your database to build your interface generatively instead of by a human. | $5.8M | Seed | Aug 13, 2024 |  |
| Thriftly | Unifying Thrift Point of Sale and E-commerce | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | May 06, 2024 |  |
| OpStart | OpStart is a management consulting company that offers bookkeeping, tax, back office setups, fractional CFO, and administrative support. |  | Seed | Jun 23, 2023 |  |
| Hifive | The Greatest GTM Engine That’s Ever Existed. Access 500+ Influential Connectors. Pay to Unlock Direct Introductions to Your Targets. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Nov 01, 2022 |  |
| Cass AI | Cass is a vertical generative AI startup providing 99% automated coaching to 30,000,000 covered lives. Cass coaching chats have been proven to be effective in 13 published peer reviewed papers. Benefits plans and payers purchase Cass as a SaaS product to give their members free access. Cass is highly scalable and can drive engagement with hundredsof thousands of members within months.Made ChatGPT safe for our 39 enterprise customers. Our medical ethical board published a paper on quality and ethical standards for generative AI in the enterprise setting. | $4.6M | Seed | Oct 07, 2022 |  |
| Ombre | Ombre is a provider of a microbiome testing kit designed to incorporate personalized probiotics and microbiome testing. The company's microbiome testing kit offers subscription-based customized testing of the microbiome with a personalized probiotic created specifically for the individual to get actionable insights into the prevention ofchronic diseases including obesity, cystic fibrosis, and Alzheimer's, enabling customers to treat root causes of gut problems. | $3M | Seed | Nov 01, 2021 |  |
| Kyndi | Kyndi's Natural Language-powered platform helps organizations find answers in unstructured, text-based data at unparalleled speed. | $34.7M | Series A | Aug 10, 2021 |  |

10 of 30 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Intel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/intel-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [7BC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/7bc-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Citrix Startup Accelerator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citrix-startup-accelerator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Citrix](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citrix-systems) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mission Innovation Network](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mission-innovations-network) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Platform Venture Studio](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/platform-venture-studio) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Platform Studio

VC Fund



1 contacts available at Platform Studio.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Tim Connors | Founding Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tim-connors |

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## FAQ

### What does Tim Connors invest in?

Tim Connors invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 30 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Tim Connors last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Tim Connors closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 30 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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