Timothy Chen
General Partner @ Essence VC
Greater Seattle Area, United States
Timothy Chen is a seed investor at Essence VC in Greater Seattle Area focused on Software and Open Source. GP at Essence VC
- Total investments:
- 17
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Timothy Chen invests in
Stages Timothy Chen invests in
Countries Timothy Chen invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 9 (53%)
- Open Source 3 (18%)
- Big Data 2 (12%)
- Analytics 2 (12%)
- Developer Tools 2 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 10 (59%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (24%)
- Series A 2 (12%)
- Series B 1 (6%)
Country
- United States 11 (65%)
- Denmark 1 (6%)
- Germany 1 (6%)
- United Kingdom 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Infracost
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Infracost creates cloud cost estimates for infrastructure as code in pull requests, so developers know how much their cloud resources will cost before launching them, creating a cost-aware engineering organization. | $18.8M / Series A / Nov 18, 2025 | |
Salus Cloud
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Salus Cloud is an AI-native platform for engineers to develop and manage security. | $3.7M / Seed / Jun 10, 2025 | |
Recce
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Solving the data context problem | $4M / Pre-Seed / Apr 22, 2025 | |
Nuon
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Nuon helps you run your app on your customer's cloud. | $16.5M / Series A / Dec 17, 2024 | |
Platform Engineering Labs
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Making Platform Engineering accessible for every engineer. | Pre-Seed / Dec 02, 2024 | |
Restate
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Restate build workflows, event-driven applications, and distributed services in a fault-tolerant manner with durable async/await. | $7M / Seed / Jun 10, 2024 | |
Coana (acquired by Socket)
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Coana helps software teams tackle the flood of alerts from traditional SCA tools. By using advanced reachability analysis, Coana cuts false alerts by over 80%, freeing up significant engineering time without sacrificing security. Coana is developed by leading program analysis researchers and is backed by Sequoia Capital and Essence VC. | $1.6M / Pre-Seed / Jan 23, 2024 | |
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Nuon
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Nuon helps you run your app on your customer's cloud. | Seed / Dec 09, 2022 | |
Commsor
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Community scales your business, resources, and presence in ways that traditional marketing or advertising channels cannot. When done right, community enables and improves customer acquisition, streamlines support and success, bolsters retention, and provides crucial product insights. Visit https://commsor.com/ to learn more. | $50M / Series B / Mar 01, 2022 | |
Signadot
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Signadot is a K8s-native platform for agentic validation that combines scalable ephemeral environments with a validation framework built for distributed systems to turn high-velocity agent code generation into safely merged pull requests. | $4M / Seed / Feb 23, 2022 | |
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Co-Investors
Redpoint
7 deals together
Alumni Ventures
4 deals together
Everywhere Ventures
4 deals together
500 Global
2 deals together
backtrace capital
2 deals together
Cowboy Ventures
2 deals together
About Essence VC
Enterprise fund focusing on 1st time technical founders building in the infra / developer space
Essence VC Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Timothy Chen
General Partner
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FAQ
What does Timothy Chen invest in?
Timothy Chen invests primarily in Software, Open Source and Big Data startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 17 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 Timothy Chen last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Timothy Chen closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 17 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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