Bee Partners is pleased to announce our investment in Embroker, our first insurance related investment to date. Seven million businesses in the United States all share one risk in common: each could be wiped out by a disaster or lawsuit without the right insurance coverage.  The $1 trillion …

Today, Bee Partners is pleased to announce our investment in BuildingConnected.The pre-construction phase (i.e. bidding and aggregating documents) has always been a jungle of calls, faxes, deliveries and a proverbial mountain range of paperwork, both in the form of atoms and bytes.  Bidding a job with 5 sub-contractors on …

Neighborly: The Community Investment MarketplaceCongratulations on their $5.5m seed round! Passion is at the heart of every one of our startups – it’s an attribute we aim to identify in every first meeting with a Founder.  After Jase Wilson first presented his vision for a reimagined municipal-bond marketplace, we needed …

I recently read a blog post that really got under my skin and it didn’t take long to realize why it got me so riled up. So many startups today have created ‘governance debt’, and have added more risk as a result.  We believe that good governance …

When you have a $50mm fund with a ‘Seed-stage mandate’ and you’re out there searching for opportunities to deploy capital visibly and quickly, it’s easy to rely upon shortcut ways of finding fundable opportunities.  After all, we think that’s a pretty big fund for Seed-stage investing.  Some …

A few weeks ago, Bhavin Parikh, cofounder and CEO of Magoosh, penned a great note that cautioned Founders about what they should know beforethey raise money from a VC.   Bhavin is in a unique position to opine on the subject, as his company raised a small Seed round and hasn’t since …

We are pleased to formally announce our investment in Phonio.  Imagine if a global charity, financial advisor, or musician could pick up a phone and call all of their followers, all around the world, at a moment’s notice – this is what Phonio has created.  By facilitating large-scale …

Founders, I’m with you on this one.  Solidifying the Founder/Investor relationship is hard and I get excited about wanting to immediately see your new company’s logo on our website or mentioned the news. I get fired up about seeing a big name on another firm’s website.  I …

We oftentimes boast that the companies we support at Bee Partners rarely ‘pivot’. We like to say this because a pivot implies that the Founders’ original Deep Market Insight perhaps was never so ‘deep’. But sometimes, that Deep Market Insight yearns for an optimal use case, and …

After working with Garrett Goldberg every day now for over a year, we are thrilled to finally introduce him to the Bee Partners family. His bio and LinkedIn profile are here. Read on to learn why we enjoy working with this guy!   What were your expectations when you joined Bee …

Today, TubeMogul priced on the NASDAQ, listed under the ticker: TUBE!  I feel honored to have been invited to the celebration, and nearly choked up when Brett & John invited me to the podium for a group shot.  Brett Wilson (co-founder & CEO), Michael Berolzheimer (1st investor) & John Hughes …

After much debate, Bee Partners has opened its AngelList Syndicate and will experiment with this exciting new tool available to both investors as well as entrepreneurs.  Here at Bee Partners, we take the concept of ‘Investor’ very seriously, and  personal responsibility is an attribute that we look for in the …

Yep, I personally reply to every email I get from a founder.  While I’m not quite ready to pledge a response time to those emails, I will take responsibility for having a public email address.    The quality and thoughtfulness of a response will vary, for sure, …

Today, Bee Partners lost a friend and partner.  After a year+ long battle with cancer, Hansoo Lee died today. I knew Hansoo as a founder first, and a friend second.  We met in early 2009 while he was a student at Haas, sharing an affiliation with the …