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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Healthcare represents over 17 percent of U.S. GDP, yet continues to remain one of the areas where technology has not had a deflationary effect on the costs to deliver the service. We’re excited about expanding our portfolio in this area as health IT is certainly an approachable and …

Stunning, unprecedented, chaotic…relentless.  At some point, each of us at Bee Partners used those–and many other colorful–words to make sense of 2020. But, we also tested our ability to pivot quickly and effectively in order to provide the support our portfolio companies needed as we all adapted …

Alejandra Vergara, MBA’22 (Bee Partners) San Francisco and Denver - September 8, 2022 - Continuing its unconventional approach to team building, Bee Partners recently hired Ale Vergara as an Associate.  Michael Berolzheimer, Founder & Managing Partner commented, “We underwrite every company in our portfolio to return the …

Big congratulations to the smart thinkers at SugarCRM who have picked up Node.io. You can read the news in TechCrunch. Node’s AI-as-a-service platform augments sales, marketing, and human resources teams with machine learning-powered customer predictions and lead recommendations, enabling users to connect with better sales leads and …