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Finance
Announcing Bee Partners III: $43M to Invest and a New Partner
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
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
Seed Investment Strategy
Since mid-2015, investments into Seed-stage companies have been decreasing with the reduction in transactions (40 percent drop) outpacing the reduction in dollars (24 percent drop). Early funding is critical for founders to quit their day jobs to go full-time, build out the initial product and team, and attract first customers. Without the capital at the genesis, there … Read more
Bee Partners Pledge: Seed-stage Investing is Not a Contest
When you have a $50mm fund with a ‘Seed-stage mandate’ and you’re out there searching for opportunities to deploy capital visibly and quickly, it’s easy to rely upon shortcut ways of finding fundable opportunities. After all, we think that’s a pretty big fund for Seed-stage investing. Some of those short-cuts come through accelerator demo days … Read more
Optionality for Founders: Becoming Profitable Can Do a Funny Thing
A few weeks ago, Bhavin Parikh, cofounder and CEO of Magoosh, penned a great note that cautioned Founders about what they should know beforethey raise money from a VC. Bhavin is in a unique position to opine on the subject, as his company raised a small Seed round and hasn’t since raised another dime from outside investors. In a … Read more
The Role of a Syndicate-lead Investor
After much debate, Bee Partners has opened its AngelList Syndicate and will experiment with this exciting new tool available to both investors as well as entrepreneurs. Here at Bee Partners, we take the concept of ‘Investor’ very seriously, and personal responsibility is an attribute that we look for in the founders we invest with. For us, that responsibility … Read more