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
At Bee Partners, we consistently favor experienced Founders with deep market insights, just as much as we consider the core business opportunity or technological defensibility. Our decision to invest in RBC Signals was motivated by the depth of knowledge of Co-Founders Christopher Richins, Olga Gershenzon, and Rani Hellerman. This global, multi-dimensional team is well respected in the … Read more
In a strong showing of grit, a quality we strive for in our Bee Founder teams, Co-Founders Stephan Thomas and Joe Inkenbrandt of Identify3D have closed a multi-million investment round led by our friends at SoftTech VC. Identify3D provides design protection, quality assurance, and data logistics for digital manufacturing computer-based 3D visualization, analytics and collaboration tools. The capital will … Read more
Written by Garrett Goldberg & Shantanu Mittal When we consider enterprise investment opportunities at Bee Partners, we often consider how the particular software or technology “stack” lays out in the given vertical, and then ask ourselves if we are adding, removing, or consolidating levels in this stack. Jamming another application (see: cost) into this workflow … Read more
Bee Partners is pleased to announce our investment in Node.io after 2 years in stealth, during which the team has built an intuitive data intelligence layer that reorganizes the web in a personalized fashion. We often talk about Founders at the earliest stages needing to be resource magnets, and Node founder Falon Fatemi embodies this trait. … Read more
Today, we’re announcing our investment in StatMuse and congratulating them on their Series A fundraise. Through our initial conversations with Eli and Adam, we became convinced of the value that transparency and natural language access would bring to large datasets. After all, what good is data if its insights can never be unlocked by those … Read more
Today, Bee Partners is pleased to announce our investment in BuildingConnected.The pre-construction phase (i.e. bidding and aggregating documents) has always been a jungle of calls, faxes, deliveries and a proverbial mountain range of paperwork, both in the form of atoms and bytes. Bidding a job with 5 sub-contractors on up to 25 different disciplines is a logistical … Read more
Neighborly: The Community Investment MarketplaceCongratulations on their $5.5m seed round! Passion is at the heart of every one of our startups – it’s an attribute we aim to identify in every first meeting with a Founder. After Jase Wilson first presented his vision for a reimagined municipal-bond marketplace, we needed little convincing about his personal passion for community … Read more
We oftentimes boast that the companies we support at Bee Partners rarely ‘pivot’. We like to say this because a pivot implies that the Founders’ original Deep Market Insight perhaps was never so ‘deep’. But sometimes, that Deep Market Insight yearns for an optimal use case, and needs a second element to blossom. When I … Read more