About
Tim Morrissey is a Partner at Drive Capital, a multi-stage venture capital firm founded by two former Sequoia Capital partners with over $2 billion in AUM. He came to venture by way of cofounding and running a deep tech hardware company, built on a deep technical background that includes research at national laboratories and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering.
Before venture, Tim cofounded and led Artimus Robotics as CEO, a University of Colorado spin-out commercializing HASEL actuation technology that he developed during his Ph.D. The team built bio-inspired soft actuators that gave machines lifelike movement, shipping real hardware to real customers. Tim stepped away to move into venture investing, and Artimus continues to operate independently today.
Tim is also the creator of Snow Visa, an avalanche safety reference tool designed as a sticker for the tip of a ski or snowboard. It is a passion project more than a business, but it is something that should exist, so he built it. He also runs a YouTube channel covering camping and making, and has worked in wedding videography and scientific communication consulting.
Tim holds a B.S. in Ceramic Engineering from Alfred University, where he studied abroad at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. He conducted research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and worked at CoorsTek in Golden, Colorado before completing his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science track, at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research spanned energy-efficient ceramic manufacturing, ocean wave energy capture, self-healing materials, and the HASEL artificial muscles that became Artimus Robotics. This work was published in Science and covered by National Geographic and Wired.
An avid traveler who has lived abroad in Europe and Asia, Tim travels extensively throughout the American West, often in support of skiing every month of the year #TurnsAllYear in a vintage truck camper that he fully restored and documented on YouTube. He lives in Boulder, Colorado with his wife, Elyse, and three sons.
Tim lives his life optimizing for interesting. You can learn more at tgmorrissey.com or reach him at tim@tgmorrissey.com.
