Congratulations to Co-Founders Shannon Hall and Ouwei Wang, along with the entire Pow.Bio team, for closing a $9.5M Series A! Read more about Pow.Bios’s technology on their website: pow.bio. “It’s always hard to balance science and business, and this is where I’ve seen Shannon and Ouwei’s dynamic shine. They are strong counterbalances to each other, … Read more
Congratulations to Co-Founders Nuha Siddiqui and Kritika Tyagi, along with the entire erthos team, for closing a $6.5M Series A! Read more about erthos’s technology on their website: erthos. Kritika Tyagi (left) and Nuha Siddiqui (right) From erthos’s Announcement on Forbes: Today, Forbes 30 Under 30 North American listers announced that erthos has closed an … Read more
A just-signed Sound Credit-PPL partnership will now allow North American performers to better collect international royalties from a range of neighboring rights. Music rights holders can now increase their payouts from music played overseas in public (shops, bars, nightclubs) or broadcast (TV, radio, and some online streaming services).
Shannon Nangle, 33, is the founder of Circe Bioscence and has built a fermentation technology that converts carbon dioxide and hydrogen into fats for the food industry. “This technology will allow us to produce fats to make meat alternatives juicier and more savory, ice cream and cheese alternatives creamier, and cacao butter for truly guilt-free … Read more
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
New Robotics E&O product focuses on automation risks and serves the unique needs of the robotics ecosystem Liability to protect your company Proprietary CoverageCompetitive RatesDedicated Platform PITTSBURGH, Sept. 14, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Koop Technologies, an insurance technology company specializing in autonomous vehicles and robotics risks, has launched an industry-first Robotics General Liability and Errors … Read more
Bee Partners, a leading Silicon Valley pre-seed venture capital firm, which also has offices in Denver, today announced the promotion of Kira Noodleman to partner. This move reflects the firm’s evolution, the portfolio growth driven by Noodleman in key sectors including synthetic biology, robotics and the digitization of the physical world, as well as her … Read more
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
“Doctors are very, very good at saving people’s lives. I don’t think doctors are renowned for their software engineering capabilities.” That’s how Anand Kulkarni, CEO of Bee Partners’ portfolio firm Crowdbotics describes the problem organizations face when they need custom software. “Most of the time, when people start building software, they’re starting from scratch,” he … Read more
Investments in robotics and automation have only accelerated during the pandemic as companies look for alternatives to “non-essential” workers and a solution for manufacturing bottlenecks. Bee portfolio company Rapid Robotics recently raised $36.7M in Series B funding led by Kleiner Perkins and Tiger Global Management with participation from NEA, Greycroft and Bee Partners. The latest … Read more