Tim Chen’s Essence VC firm is raising a new fund to back more infrastructure startups Chen said the new fund will allow Essence to lead bigger pre-seed rounds and gives him more flexibility on deployment timeframes. Read More
Tim Chen was deemed ‘too nerdy’ for venture capital. Now he runs one of the hottest startup funds in tech. When Tim Chen tried to break into venture capital six years ago, multiple firms in Seattle turned him down. “Nobody wanted to hire me,” he recalled in an interview with GeekWire. “I was too technical, they said. Too nerdy.” Read More
Meta and Microsoft vets land $2.2M for startup building ‘shared brain’ developer platform A new artificial intelligence startup wants to help software development teams capture, store, and query their company data and knowledge.… Read More
Seattle venture firm Essence VC raises $27M to back technical infrastructure startups Seattle pre-seed venture capital firm Essence VC says it has raised $27 million for its third fund to back early-stage… Read More
