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Tim Seears

Former Venture Partner at VU Venture Partners

United Kingdom

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

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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

Skills & more

StrategyStart-upsEntrepreneurshipVenture Capital6Early Stage Investment1Large Language Models (LLM)Corporate FinanceMergers & Acquisitions (M&A)Private EquitySoftware EngineersElectronic Engineering1Embedded Systems
+8 moreDistributed SystemsSystems EngineeringSystem ArchitectureSpace OperationsSpace SystemsSpacecraftResearch SkillsData Analysis
  • Executive Education, Venture Capital Programme — Columbia Business School

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Who is Tim Seears?
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.
What check size does Tim Seears write?
Tim Seears typically writes checks of $100K – $1M.
Where did Tim Seears go to school?
Tim Seears studied at Gies College of Business - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Master of Business Administration - MBA); UCL (MSc, Astrophysics); Bournemouth University (BEng(Hons), Electronic Engineering & Software Engineering).

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