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What does Essence VC invest in?
Essence VC invests most often at Seed and Series A (69% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Infra, Infrastructure and Data.
Essence VC highlights
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8 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Seed and Series A: 69% of its rounds
- 03
Sole investor in 2 rounds, median $1.1M
What they do
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $100K – $250K as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries B
- Sectors
- InfraInfrastructureData
- Based in
- Seattle, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first42 appearances
- 2026
5 rounds
- Sept
- Jun
- May
- Apr
- Mar
- 2025
9 rounds
- Nov
- Nov
- Nov
- Sept
- Aug
- Jul
- Jun
- May
- Feb
- 2024
8 rounds
- Dec
- Dec
- Dec
- Oct
- Sept
- Jun
- Apr
- Jan
- 2023
10 rounds
- Dec
- Nov
- Oct
- Aug
- Aug
- Jul
- Mar
- Feb
- Jan
- Jan
- 2022
7 rounds
- Dec
- Oct
- Jun
- May
- May
- Apr
- Mar
- 2021
2 rounds
- Nov
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration1 named
TCTimothy ChenSole Member and Chief Compliance OfficeriForm ADV
We also hold 1 person at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$56Mgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Timothy CHEN Advisors, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 305778