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Koop Launches Industry-First Robotics Errors & Omissions Insurance Product

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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 Promotes Kira Noodleman to Partner, Deepening Reach into Machine to Machine Learning and Synthetic Biology

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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

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

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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

Bee Partners’ Portfolio Company DeepScribe Changes the Physician-Patient Conversation with $30M Raise

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“In the last 18 to 20 months we have essentially gone from being geeky kids in a lab to one of the largest medical scribe companies in the country.” That’s what DeepScribe co-founder Akilesh Bapu had to say in an interview with Forbes Magazine. The Bee Partners’ portfolio company uses AI to dramatically decrease the … Read more

Crowdbotics Offers Managed App Development for All–and Jobs for Global Engineers

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“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

Bee Partners Portfolio Company Rapid Robotics Raises Third Funding Round in Less Than a Year

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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

$85M of Investment Funding Fuels Snapcommerce’s Industry Expansion Plans

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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

Plastics Alternative Pioneer erthos Uses Existing Plastics Production Processes to Drive Adoption as Company Positions for Growth

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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

Congratulations, SugarCRM, on the Acquisition of Node.io

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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

Heroic Sideqik

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Back in 2012, I was a sole GP investing from a windowless office in a shared workspace south of Market. With the backing of several remarkable and patient LPs, I had raised $7M of capital and invested in only 25 companies. I was learning a lot in a very hands-on manner. The portfolio had its … Read more