Bee Partners Portfolio Company Rapid Robotics Raises Third Funding Round in Less Than a Year

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Investments in robotics and automation have only accelerated during the pandemic as companies look for alternatives to “non-essential” workers and a solution for manufacturing bottlenecks. Bee portfolio company Rapid Robotics recently raised $36.7M in Series B funding led by Kleiner Perkins and Tiger Global Management with participation from NEA, Greycroft and Bee Partners. The latest … Read more

Former DCVC CFO Jocelyne Cooke Joins Bee Partners as Chief Financial Officer

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Bee Partners, a leading pre-seed venture capital firm partnering with innovative founders at the forefront of human-machine convergence, announced today that Jocelyne Cooke, a venture capital industry veteran, has joined Bee Partners as the firm’s Chief Financial Officer. “I’m thrilled to have Jocelyne join Bee Partners and confident she will make an immediate impact,” said … Read more

Knowde’s Meteoric Rise Marks Shift As Chemical Industry Finally Goes Digital

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In February 2017, following months of meticulous research into the inefficiencies of the chemical industry, we announced an investment in a little-known company called Knowde, which was just setting out to transform the way chemicals are bought and sold.  At the time, the check Bee Partners wrote to co-founders Ali Amin-Javaheri and Wojciech Krupa was … Read more

San Francisco Startup Knowde is Modernizing the Chemicals Market

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Ali Amin-Javaheri is leading the chemical industry into the digital age.   Amin-Javaheri is co-founder of Bee portfolio company Knowde, a San Francisco-based B2B marketplace connecting buyers and sellers across the chemical industry.  The startup company recently raised $72 million from investors to help expand its reach. Although originally aimed at smaller entities, the platform has … Read more

Almost $1.5B in Royalties Go Unpaid to Artists Every Year. Memphis-based Sound Credit is Fixing That.

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“You can’t throw a rock in Memphis without hitting a guitar player.” That’s how Gebre Waddell describes the music-saturated city he grew up in, which is also home to the company he founded, Sound Credit. The company, which Bee Partners invested in during the last quarter of 2020, aims to “hit” all those guitar players … Read more

45 Billion Connected Cameras By 2022 Will Require More Data Processing Than Humans Can Deliver. Synthesis AI Has a Solution

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Synthesis AI founder and CEO Yashar Behzadi will waste no time telling you there will be 45 billion connected cameras in the world by 2022. This is over one-and-a-half times the 27 billion cameras operating today and a 216% increase since 2017. Why does the global number of connected cameras matter to Behzadi? He knows the only … Read more

Bee Partners Establishes Denver Satellite Office to Extend Deal Flow, Network Reach

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Denver, CO – April 21, 2021 – Recognizing that U.S. startups are increasingly interested in moving or expanding to more affordable and diverse locations, Bee Partners, a pre-Seed venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco, CA, has established a satellite office in Denver, Colorado. The start-up and investment ecosystem in Colorado is growingThe office is … Read more

$85M of Investment Funding Fuels Snapcommerce’s Industry Expansion Plans

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Snapcommerce wants to change how consumers shop on their phones. To that end, on March 4, the company brought home an $85 million growth investment round it will use to launch products in other verticals after the success of its first offering, Snaptravel. Bee Partners participated in this growth round, which was led by Lion … Read more

An Inception-Stage Guide to Fundraising

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A lot of inception-stage fundraising information is already available in the public domain, so our intention with this guide is more to encourage you as a Founder to take a step back – even before you embark on the fundraising process – to think even at the earliest stages about how you want to build … Read more

Plastics Alternative Pioneer erthos Uses Existing Plastics Production Processes to Drive Adoption as Company Positions for Growth

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In 2016, Nuha Siddiqui was an environmental economics student at the University of Toronto when she came across a study estimating that by 2050 there will be more plastics than fish in the world’s oceans. That news spurred Nuha to partner with two other students, plant biology specialist Kritika Tyagi and engineering expert Chang Dong, … Read more