Tim Chen

Co-host at The Infra Pod
San Francisco Bay Area

Tim Chen is Founder and Managing Partner at Essence Venture Capital and serves as Operator Advisor at Bessemer Venture Partners. He founded Essence VC, a venture fund that he continues to lead, and has expertise in pre-seed and seed investing, DevTools, infrastructure, and Data SaaS.

  • The Infra Pod Co-host 2024–present · current
  • Bessemer Venture Partners Operator Advisor 2021–present · current
  • Open Source Startup Podcast Co-host 2021–present · current
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    Essence VC Founder and Managing Partner 2019–present · current
  • The Apache Software Foundation Apache Foundation Member 2013–present · current
  • Essence Venture Capital Managing Partner · current
  • Polygon Technology Consultant 2022 · past
  • Grid.ai Principal Engineer 2020–2021 · past
  • Tendermint SVP of Engineering 2019–2020 · past
  • Cloudera Principal Software Engineer 2018–2019 · past
  • Hyperpilot CEO & Cofounder 2016–2018 · past
  • Mesosphere Lead Distributed Systems Engineer 2014–2016 · past
  • 343 Industries Software Development Engineer II 2013–2014 · past
  • VMware Member of Technical Staff III, CloudFoundry 2012–2013 · past
  • Z2Live Software Developer 2011–2012 · past
  • Evri Software Engineer 2010–2011 · past
  • Microsoft Software Development Engineer 2008–2010 · past

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  • The Infra Pod Co-host 2024–present · current
  • Bessemer Venture Partners Operator Advisor 2021–present · current
  • Open Source Startup Podcast Co-host 2021–present · current

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