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 are pleased to formally announce our investment in Phonio. Imagine if a global charity, financial advisor, or musician could pick up a phone and call all of their followers, all around the world, at a moment’s notice – this is what Phonio has created. By facilitating large-scale communication with voice, through actual mobile phone calls, … Read more
Founders, I’m with you on this one. Solidifying the Founder/Investor relationship is hard and I get excited about wanting to immediately see your new company’s logo on our website or mentioned the news. I get fired up about seeing a big name on another firm’s website. I recently asked Michael about the topic relative to … 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
Today, TubeMogul priced on the NASDAQ, listed under the ticker: TUBE! I feel honored to have been invited to the celebration, and nearly choked up when Brett & John invited me to the podium for a group shot. Brett Wilson (co-founder & CEO), Michael Berolzheimer (1st investor) & John Hughes (co-founder & President of Products) By going public, … Read more
I hope to add more ‘Bee Partners Pledge’ blog posts over the year, but I’ll start with a lingering frustration with other VC websites: “Bee Partners will show every company that it ever invests in on its portfolio page, both past and present.” You’d be surprised how many portfolio pages have been sanitized by … Read more