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Tim Seears

Investor

Venture Partner at VU Venture Partners

United Kingdom

Writes $100K – $1M checks · typically $500K

About

Tim Seears is a Venture Partner at VU Venture Partners focused on frontier technology sectors including AI, DeepTech, and SpaceTech. He brings experience as a founder, venture capital investor, and angel investor, with operational background in CEO, CPO, and CTO roles. He invests in early-stage companies across DeepTech, SpaceTech, AI, Robotics, and Energy sectors.

Experience

  1. VU Venture PartnersVenture Partner - Frontier Techcurrent2026 — presentLondon Area, United Kingdom
  2. Fourth State VenturesAngel Investorcurrent2017 — present
  3. InovexusVenture Partner2022 — 2026
  4. AI ForgeEntrepreneur in Residence2024 — 2025London, United Kingdom
  5. Founder InstituteEntrepreneur in Residence2020 — 2024
  6. InnoWellChief Product Officer / Chief Digital Officer2019 — 2020Sydney, Australia
  7. InnoWellChief Product Officer, AI & Analytics2019Sydney, Australia
  8. TeradataCEO & Founder, Asia-Pacific - Think Big, a Teradata Company2016 — 2018Sydney, Australia
  9. TeradataVice President, AI - Think Big, a Teradata Company2016London, United Kingdom
  10. Big Data Partnership (Acquired by Teradata)CTO & Co-Founder2012 — 2016London, United Kingdom
  11. Theta 13 LtdDirector & Founder2010 — 2012
  12. Key Criteria GroupLead Technical Architect / Lead Software Engineer2009 — 2010
  13. Imperial College LondonResearch Assistant - Astrophysicist2003 — 2009Space & Atmospheric Physics Group
  14. NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryOperations Engineer - Cassini Spacecraft2003 — 2009

Education

  1. Gies College of Business - University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMaster of Business Administration - MBA
  2. UCLMSc, Astrophysics
  3. Bournemouth UniversityBEng(Hons), Electronic Engineering & Software Engineering

Skills & more

StrategyLeadership8Management7Team Management1Strategic Planning9Creative Ideation1Optimising1Emotional Intelligence1Mentoring1Public Speaking1Start-upsEntrepreneurship
+12 moreVenture CapitalEarly Stage InvestmentLarge Language Models (LLM)Corporate FinanceMergers & Acquisitions (M&A)Private EquitySoftware EngineersElectronic EngineeringDistributed SystemsSystems EngineeringSystem ArchitectureSpace Operations
  • Executive Education, Venture Capital Programme — Columbia Business School

From Tim's professional profile.

Colleagues at VU Venture Partners

Aakash Jain
Partner - North America, Europe, & LatAm at VU Venture Partners
Alejandro Chardon
Associate at VU Venture Partners
Alessandra (Sandra) Habermann
Senior Associate at VU Venture Partners
Andrew Zalasin
General Partner - North America, Europe, & LatAm at VU Venture Partners
Andy Goldstein
Partner - Western Europe at VU Venture Partners
Angie Wang
Principal - Asia-Pacific Investment Team at VU Venture Partners
Antonio Lavia
Investor at VU Venture Partners
Arpan Ajmera
Prinicipal - North America, Latam & Europe at VU Venture Partners

Frequently asked questions

Where does Tim Seears work?
Tim Seears is Venture Partner at VU Venture Partners.
What check size does Tim Seears write?
Tim Seears typically writes checks of $100K – $1M.

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