Tim Tully

Tim Tully

Partner atMenlo VenturesFirm active Oct 9California

Tim Tully is a partner at Menlo Ventures focused on early-stage AI/ML, data, and cloud investments. He previously served as CTO of Splunk and held technical roles at Yahoo! and Sun Microsystems.

What Tim can write

Writes checks of$1M to $30M+
Comes in atSeed, Series A, Series BCan lead the round
Ownership target7-10%At first check
Pitch pageSubmit on their siteThe firm asks founders to apply here.

Menlo Ventures writes $1M to $30M+ checks, larger than 83% of firms in the atlas.

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Career

  1. Yahoo! · data engineer to Chief Data Architect
  2. Sun Microsystems
  3. Splunk · CTO
  4. Menlo Ventures · Partner
    Now
  5. Yahoo! · data engineer
  6. Yahoo! · Chief Data Architect

Investments named in public bios

NeonEveFleetGimlet

Focus

ai/mldata stacknext-generation cloud

Education

Carnegie Mellon University, M.S.University of California, Davis, B.S.

Also at Menlo Ventures

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Who is Tim Tully?

Tim Tully is a partner at Menlo Ventures focused on early-stage AI/ML, data, and cloud investments. He previously served as CTO of Splunk and held technical roles at Yahoo! and Sun Microsystems.

How much does Tim Tully invest?

Tim Tully invests through Menlo Ventures, which writes checks of $1M to $30M+ at seed, series a, series b.

How do I pitch Tim Tully?

A warm intro from a founder Menlo Ventures backed works best.

What did Tim Tully do before Menlo Ventures?

data engineer to Chief Data Architect at Yahoo!; Sun Microsystems; CTO at Splunk; data engineer at Yahoo!; Chief Data Architect at Yahoo!.

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