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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

“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 …