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
Working Geek: Why DomainTools’ CEO Tim Chen rejects social networks For the CEO of a cybersecurity firm, Tim Chen has some surprisingly luddite tendencies. “I’m old school,” he says, explaining… Read More
