Kira is a Partner at Bee Partners. She has spent the past six years investing and growing startups with a focus on go-to-market and minimum viable product as a product manager in San Francisco and South America. Kira holds an undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University and a …

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations estimates that between 20 and 40 percent of global crop production is lost to pests. Plant diseases cost the global economy $220 billion each year and invasive insects about $70 billion. But the solutions most commonly employed aren’t …

Three years ago the Bee Partners team fully articulated our core investment thesis: we believe machines will win. This idea could be taken as dystopian or alarming. But we assert that the future doesn’t have to take a dark turn. How machines will win can – and …

Fermentation, the process of breaking down sugars using the enzymes of microorganisms, is almost as old as civilization itself. The use of microbial cultures to preserve and improve the nutritional value of foods and produce alcoholic beverages, goes back millenia. So it may come as no surprise …

I’m excited to formally announce that we have a new partner: Kira Noodleman. Garrett, Tim and I have long been impressed with Kira’s intellect, curiosity and energy and this promotion acknowledges the central role she has already played in making Bee Partners and our portfolio stronger.  Kira’s …

Bee Partners, a leading Silicon Valley pre-seed venture capital firm, which also has offices in Denver, today announced the promotion of Kira Noodleman to partner. This move reflects the firm’s evolution, the portfolio growth driven by Noodleman in key sectors including synthetic biology, robotics and the digitization …

Garret GoldbergPartner, Bee Partners Michael BerolzheimerManaging Partner, Bee Partners March, 2021 This paper explains our theory on Vector-driven analysis in inception-stage investing, and examines what Vectors are, how, why, and when they work, and how Bee Partners applies them to more accurately identify unbounded potential in the …

With nearly half a million developer jobs empty right now, and another half million engineers soon to retire, custom software that is made on time and under budget is getting harder to find. Yet many businesses – maybe most businesses – really need it. Who's going to …

“In the last 18 to 20 months we have essentially gone from being geeky kids in a lab to one of the largest medical scribe companies in the country.” That’s what DeepScribe co-founder Akilesh Bapu had to say in an interview with Forbes Magazine. The Bee Partners’ …

Even before the pandemic, physician burnout* was a prevalent problem in health care – due in no small part to the immense number of hours doctors have to spend maintaining patient health records. This daily administration negatively impacts job satisfaction among both residents and attending physicians because …

As COVID-19 drags into another year, we feel lucky that from our vantage point we see a silver lining. 2021 was a year in which we, along with much of the world, learned whether we could stand steady on the ever-shifting grounds that have become our new …

“Doctors are very, very good at saving people's lives. I don't think doctors are renowned for their software engineering capabilities.” That’s how Anand Kulkarni, CEO of Bee Partners’ portfolio firm Crowdbotics describes the problem organizations face when they need custom software. “Most of the time, when people …

When our portfolio company Future Fields set out to address the world’s reliance on animal protein as a food source, they intended to produce lab-grown chicken. After four months of intense experimentation, their only product was a chicken nugget that cost $3,000 a pound--not a viable solution …

More than 2.6 million manufacturing workers are aiming for retirement within the next decade. And that’s just one challenge American manufacturing faces.  Other obstacles include the availability of cheaper labor overseas, the conundrum that even well-paying manufacturing jobs aren’t attractive to American workers, and the fact that …