Tim Connors

Tim Connors is the Founder and Managing Partner of PivotNorth Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California, and operates from Nashville, Tennessee. Before establishing this firm in 2010, he spent twelve years as a partner and general partner at Sequoia Capital and US Venture Partners. His operating experience includes helping build C-Cube Microsystems into a public company, working on Tandem Computers' Everest server line, co-founding seven companies, and co-authoring three patents. The University of Notre Dame electrical engineering graduate has been named to the Forbes Midas List twice, having mentored six unicorn startups and helped create over $40 billion in market capitalization. Connors currently focuses on pre-seed and seed-stage computer science investments while directing the Stanford Draper Fund and serving on the Notre Dame College of Engineering Advisory Council.