Tim Hoerr

CEO and founder of Serra Ventures, a micro venture capital firm that provides coaching, management guidance and funding to seed and emerging stage companies in selected high technology sectors throughout the Midwest.

Website: timhoerr.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timhoerr/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/timhoerr
Champaign, Illinois, United States
Accredited investor
Member since May 30, 2017

I'm passionate about the intersection of entrepreneurship, personal purpose, passion and a vision to change the world. Quote_down

About

Investor interests

Type of investor	Early stage VC
Typical investment size	$500k - $1M
Typical investments in a year	15
Categories of interest	Information technology Medical Devices Business to Business (B2B)
Locations of interest	Chicago, Illinois, United States San Diego, California, United States St. Louis, Missouri, United States Cincinnati, Ohio, United States Lincoln, Nebraska, United States Kansas City, Missouri, United States Champaign, Illinois, United States Indianapolis, Indiana, United States Madison, Wisconsin, United States Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States Des Moines, Iowa, United States Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Credentials	Accredited Investor

Education

1983 Illinois State University , BS , Accounting with Business Information Systems

I am a(n):

Investor

Companies I've founded or co-founded:

Serra Ventures, Gameday Spirit, The Best Sammich I Ever Had, Collegiate Marketing, LifeVision, iCyt Mission Technology, Serra Capital

Companies I work or worked for:

RSM, SourceGear

Achievements (products built, personal awards won):

Bone Scholar, Illinois State University; Certified Public Accountant (and Elijah Watt Sells Award for CPA exam performance); Certified Management Accountant (and top 5 award for exam performance); Accredited Senior Appraiser (Business Valuation); Entrepreneurial Excellence in Management Award at the Innovation Celebration in 2009; Author of Thank God It's Monday! and Risking It: An Intersection of Faith and Work

Full bio

Tim is the CEO and founder of Serra Ventures, LLC, a micro venture capital firm that provides coaching, management guidance and funding to seed and emerging stage companies in selected high technology sectors throughout the Midwest. Serra has provided consulting to over 200 tech start-ups and has provided funding to over 60 of them. They presently manage $60 million in early stage company investments.

In 1983, Tim graduated summa cum laude from Illinois State University with a degree in Accounting and Business Information Systems. He received the Bone Scholar Award, the highest undergraduate award at Illinois State, and went on to win national awards on the Certified Public Accounting exam and Certified Management Accounting exam.

Tim was formerly a partner in the international accounting and consulting firm, RSM McGladrey, in Illinois and San Diego. He spent nearly 15 years with the Firm. In the 2000’s, Tim served as President of SourceGear, a software firm, and then as Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of iCyt, a bioscience instrument firm which won numerous technology and business awards including Best Places to Work in Illinois. The company was acquired by Sony Corporation in 2009. Tim won the Entrepreneurial Excellence in Management Award at the Innovation Celebration in 2009.

Tim is the author of the book Risking It: An Intersection of Faith & Work as well as Thank God It’s Monday! A Toolkit for Aligning Your Lifevision and Your Work. Tim’s books provide insight on how he has actively sought to build authentic relationships, take appropriate risks, serve clients with excellence and catalyze others to life live on purpose. In speaking engagements, Tim enjoys sharing his successes and failures with the businesspeople and entrepreneurs who are building today’s high performance organizations.

Tim and his wife of over 30 years, Toni, reside in Champaign and have three adult daughters, two sons-in-law, and four grandchildren. Tim serves on a number of non-profit and corporate boards.