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Austin Grisham

Head of Platform

Austin Grisham is Head of Platform at Bee Partners. He balances time between three key areas: fund operations, portfolio operations, and ecosystem expansion. With experience as a 2x founder, he brings expertise in strategy, marketing, product, and operations to Bee Partners portfolio Founders. Working alongside Michael Berolzheimer, Founder and Managing Partner, he helps drive Bee Partners strategy for LP networks with heavy focus on fundraising and fund operations. Austin works to expand our general ecosystem by evangelizing our Partnership Model. He is dedicated to forging authentic relationships with Founders, LPs and Advisors.

Austin initially established a boutique agency in 2016 focused on website dev, storytelling, content creation and brand strategy. Next, he founded an agricultural startup based in Rwanda working to integrate sustainable agriculture and grow supply chains for larger consumer brands in the U.S. for makeup, food production and other consumables. He continues to stay involved in the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Colorado and beyond having owned/operated a Whole Foods CPG company from 2019-2020 while he helped establish a buyout private equity firm in Denver prior to joining Bee in 2022. 

Austin has been a photographer for over twenty-five years earning several awards and being published on platforms in the outdoor industry for product and brand photography. Austin lives in the mountains of Colorado spending his free time outside on the back porch, riding mountain bikes, and skiing in the winter, exploring resorts and the backcountry. 

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