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 confident she will make an immediate impact,” said … Read more
“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 2020, aims to “hit” all those guitar players … Read more
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 investment ecosystem in Colorado is growingThe office is … Read more
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 this growth round, which was led by Lion … Read more
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 specialist Kritika Tyagi and engineering expert Chang Dong, … Read more
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 fund… to achieve such discipline we need associates who’ve experienced breadth as both … Read more
It seems like a straight-forward question: “As an entrepreneur, if I experience harassment or discrimination, where do I report it and how will I be protected?” Emotional safety is something we value highly at Bee Partners. How can Founders, who risk so much already, possibly function without it? Yet so many cannot be certain they … Read more
By Santiago Freyria By Santiago Freyria, Haas 2020 Six years ago I was an undergrad in economics looking for a part-time job. After more than 50 rejections because of lack of experience, I was willing to work for free. It turned out to be the best thing that has happened in my career, as I … Read more
It is with profound gratitude and a sense of great purpose that Garrett, Tim, Kira and I officially announce today the closing of our $43M fund, Bee Partners III. You may have already learned this news from our own personal conversations these last few months or today from VC Journal and Crunchbase News. And as … Read more
Spacer We’ve considered Kira Noodleman elemental to Team Bee since she joined us as an intern after her first year of Berkeley Haas in 2016. This fall, diploma in hand, she returned and became a Bee investor. Our resident blockchain and ag-tech expert, she also works in dealflow interviewing dozens of potential Bee portfolio companies … Read more