Number of Portfolio Companies 1
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 2
  • Investor Type  Individual/Angel

A graduate of Oxford University, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, in 1989. He wrote the first web client and server in 1990. His specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined as Web technology spread.

He is the 3Com Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence ( CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he also heads the Decentralized Information Group (DIG). He is also a Professor in the Electronics and Computer Science Department at the University of Southampton, UK.

He is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a Web standards organization founded in 1994 which develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. He was a Director of the Web Science Trust (WST) launched in 2009 to promote research and education in Web Science, the multidisciplinary study of humanity connected by technology.

Tim is a Director of the World Wide Web Foundation, launched in 2009 to coordinate efforts to further the potential of the Web to benefit humanity.

He has promoted open government data globally, is a member of the UK’s Transparency Board, and president of London’s Open Data Institute.

In 2001 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. He has been the recipient of several international awards including the Japan Prize, the Prince of Asturias Foundation Prize, the Millennium Technology Prize and Germany’s Die Quadriga award. In 2004 he was knighted by H.M. Queen Elizabeth and in 2007 he was awarded the Order of Merit. In 2009 he was elected a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences. He is the author of “Weaving the Web”.

On March 18 2013, Tim, along with Vinton Cerf, Robert Kahn, Louis Pouzin and Marc Andreesen, was awarded the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering for “ground-breaking innovation in engineering that has been of global benefit to humanity.”

Number of Investments 1
Tim Berners-Lee invested in DuckDuckGo on Dec 1, 2020. This investment - Secondary Market - DuckDuckGo - was valued at
$100M
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Announced Date  
Organization Name  
Lead Investor  
Funding Round  
Money Raised  
Dec 1, 2020
DuckDuckGo
Secondary Market - DuckDuckGo
$100M
Number of Current Jobs 8
Tim Berners-Lee has 8 current jobs including Fellow at The Royal Society, Co-founder and CTO at Inrupt, and Founder at World Wide Web Foundation.
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 2
Number of Past Board & Advisor Roles 1
Tim Berners-Lee holds 2 board and advisor roles as Board Advisor at Zignal Labs and Advisor at Infinite Analytics.
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The Web Science Trust
Board of Directors