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Essence Vc
What they invest in
Based on the funding rounds Essence Vc joined in the last 2 years.
Who they invest alongside
Firms that joined the same rounds as Essence Vc in the last 2 years
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They back the same kinds of companies at the same stages
Both back seed-stage Intellectual Property; 1 shared portfolio company
Both back seed-stage Intellectual Property
Both back Series A Software; 1 shared portfolio company
Essence VC is a small Seattle based pre-seed fund run as a solo GP practice by Timothy Chen, and its own site (essencevc.fund) does not publish a pitch form or a submission address. Treat it as introduction only: get a warm intro from a founder Tim has backed or from a co-investor, or reach him directly on LinkedIn or X with a short, very technical note. Keep the first message to a few lines on what you are building at the infrastructure or developer tooling layer and who the technical founders are. Do not rely on generic contact addresses scraped from data providers as a pitch route.
Worth knowing. Very narrow mandate: pre-seed and seed checks from a roughly 27M fund, aimed at first time deeply technical founders in dev tools, data infrastructure and AI infra. Anything at Series A or later, or consumer and non infrastructure software, is out of scope, and because it is effectively one decision maker the intro path matters more than the deck.
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