Investor profile
Timothy Chen
Private equity, Venture capital & Managing Partner at Essence Venture Capital, Operator Advisor at Bessemer Venture Partners
Timothy Chen is an Operator Advisor at Bessemer Venture Partners, whose known portfolio counts 18 companies.
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Investment focus
Contacts
Affiliated funds' portfolios
Managing Partner at Essence Venture Capital, whose known portfolio counts 10 companies
- Kite AI
- Gable
- Standard Kernel
- Nilo
- Comfy
- Clarify
- Unkey
- Clarify AI
- Cline
- Magic Patterns
Operator Advisor at Bessemer Venture Partners, whose known portfolio counts 18 companies
- Vector
- Upvest
- Givebutter
- Halter
- Zenskar
- Saronic
- Sett
- Lightning Step Technologies
- PointOne
- Bold Security
- HockeyStack
- Amperos
- and 6 more
Investor Profile
Founders in the listed sectors AI, Commerce, Consumer and FinTech, and focus areas AI Applications, AI Infrastructure, Analytics and Cloud Infrastructure fall inside that listing.
Stage-wise, the deals at Bessemer Venture Partners cluster around Growth, Late-Stage and Seed rounds.
What the affiliated firm has backed is the closest available signal on whether Timothy Chen is worth approaching.
Colleagues
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Nick Mehta
Board Member
Palo Alto, United States
Jeff Epstein
Operating Partner
San Francisco, United States
Talia Goldberg
Partner
San Francisco, United States
Jeremy Levine
Partner
New York, United States
Brian Feinstein
Partner
San Francisco, United States
Sameer Dholakia
Partner
San Francisco, United States
Ed Colloton
Partner Emeritus
San Francisco, United States
Byron Deeter
Partner
Atherton, United States
D C
Private Investor
United States
Janelle Teng Wade
Partner
San Francisco, United States
Elliott Robinson
Partner, Bessemer Growth
Brooklyn, United States
Sofia Guerra
Partner
Cambridge, United States
Adam Fisher
Partner
Israel
Charles Birnbaum
Partner
New York, United States
Hannah Kim
Vice President
New York, United States
Alexandra Sukin
Investor
New York, United States
Michael Rodnick
Partner
Mountain View, United States
Michael Droesch
Partner
Boston, United States
Mira Amin
Investor
United States
Aditya Nidmarti
Partner
New York, United States
Frequently asked questions
Who is Timothy Chen?
Timothy Chen is a private equity investor and venture capital investor based in Seattle, Washington, United States, listed as Operator Advisor at Bessemer Venture Partners. The known portfolio of that firm counts 18 companies. That portfolio belongs to the firm, not to Timothy Chen personally.
What does Timothy Chen invest in?
Listed sectors include AI, Commerce, Consumer and FinTech; listed focus areas include AI Applications, AI Infrastructure, Analytics and Cloud Infrastructure. Those tags come from the portfolios of the firms this profile is attached to, so they read as a record of what has been backed rather than a stated preference for what comes next.
What stage does Timothy Chen invest at?
Bessemer Venture Partners appears in Growth, Late-Stage and Seed rounds across its known deals, and Timothy Chen is listed there as Operator Advisor. Stage is the strongest single filter when you build a target list: an investor with no record at your stage rarely starts with you.
Which firm is Timothy Chen listed at?
Timothy Chen is listed as Operator Advisor at Bessemer Venture Partners. 99 other people in the database share a firm with Timothy Chen.
How do I contact Timothy Chen?
An email address, a phone number and a LinkedIn page are on file for Timothy Chen. The address stays masked on this page and is readable inside RaiseHunt after you create an account.
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