The Promise of Smart Manufacturing

CEO and Co-Founder Jordan Kretchmer, along with CTO and Co-Founder Ruddick Lawrence, believe that machines will win, as do we. In an interview, the former discusses how America’s manufacturing industry is in desperate need of innovation. Recent macroeconomic trends are highlighting bottlenecks within the manufacturing supply chain (e.g., labor shortages), perfectly outlining one of our … Read more

SynthesisAI: Fall 2023 Release

Easier, faster, more powerful. Introducing Synthesis Humans & Synthesis Scenarios Our mission here at Synthesis AI has been the same since our initial launch: To enable more capable and ethical AI. Our unique platform couples generative AI with cinematic CGI pipelines to enable the on-demand generation of photorealistic, diverse and perfectly labeled images and videos. … Read more

Skycatch’s Drone-Enabled Data Collection Takes On New Territory

Bee Partners portfolio company Skycatch, which recently closed a $25M raise with support from ABD Ventures and Wavemaker, doesn’t consider itself a drone company at all.  That’s why, when Founder and CEO Christian Sanz talks about Skycatch, he talks less about the drones Skycatch deploys, and more about the problems being solved by the computer-vision … Read more

Bee Portco Crowdbotics Closes on $22M to Help Any Business Make Custom Software

With nearly half a million developer jobs empty right now, and another half million engineers soon to retire, custom software that is made on time and under budget is getting harder to find. Yet many businesses – maybe most businesses – really need it. Who’s going to fill that need? Crowdbotics, a Bee Partners portfolio … Read more

45 Billion Connected Cameras By 2022 Will Require More Data Processing Than Humans Can Deliver. Synthesis AI Has a Solution

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 cameras matter to Behzadi? He knows the only … Read more

Congratulations, SugarCRM, on the Acquisition of Node.io

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 potential customers. That’s right in SugarCRM’s sweet spot … Read more

IoT and Edge Intelligence

Moving to the Edge for Speed and Autonomy Making Decisions at the Edge WHAT IS EDGE COMPUTING? How quickly what’s new becomes commonplace. Cloud computing has been one of the biggest conduits for innovation over the past 10 years and will remain an important part of the computing infrastructure for the foreseeable future. But as … Read more

Industry 4.0

Systems of Intelligence Definition and Thesis Over the past 36 months, it’s been clear that opportunities innovating around manufacturing have percolated to the top.  Here we explain why we’re excited about the future of Industrial Technologies, how we look at this world, what we look for in Founders building the next generation of solutions, and … Read more