TIM DOTSON

Tim Dotson is a Principal at Roo Partners based in San Francisco, California, where he focuses on seed and Series A investments in B2B software. Before joining the firm in the first quarter of 2024, he spent four years as a Principal at Initialized Capital under Garry Tan and held earlier investment roles at Craft Ventures. The Stanford University computer science graduate has executed over 20 investments at Roo Partners, recently leading a funding round for the artificial intelligence workflow startup Flowish in March 2025. In addition to his venture capital career, he maintains an active online presence with over 5,000 LinkedIn followers and published an operator investor playbook in late 2025. Dotson leverages his prior experience as a technology startup operator to support early-stage founders building scalable enterprise software, developer tools, and machine learning platforms.