Milestone Unlocked: 60% of Bee I Founders Achieve Series A

It’s pretty great around Bee HQ these days. … We’ve got a fully engaged, enthusiastic team.  The pipeline of opportunities is full of new innovation and disruption. And every single day, we do the work we love with Founders we deeply respect and learn from. And, as of last week, 60 percent of companies Bee Partners invested … Read more

Honored to Continue Our Support for the Hansoo Lee Fellowship

We would like to congratulate Leon Rodriguez of NecesitoDoc for being selected for the Hansoo Lee Fellowship. The Fellowship is an opportunity for Berkeley-Haas MBA students to pursue their passion similarly to our friend Hansoo Lee and we are so honored to partner with Leon to help improve people’s lives. Four years ago, Bee Partners lost an … Read more

Welcome to the Bee Team, Tim Smith!

We are thrilled to announce that Tim Smith has joined us here at Bee Partners! We have known Tim for years through our mutual connection into UC Berkeley’s SkyDeck accelerator program, and we’ve been impressed with the quality of advisory services that he’s provided to earliest-stage teams. With an experience set packed with founder war stories, and a … Read more

Introducing Garrett Goldberg… on His One-Year Anniversary

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 Partners? Coming back to the Bay Area from … Read more

Hansoo Lee

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 Haas Venture Fellows, a group of students eager … Read more