Bee Partners
Venture capitalLafayette · Pre-Seed–Seed · 9 people tracked
Also known as BEE PARTNERS MANAGEMENT COMPANY, LLC
Investment thesis
Bee Partners invests with conviction at the earliest moment, backing radical technical founders before they have a product, revenue, or market validation. The firm focuses on frontier technology, having invested in AI early, and now backs companies building futures where AI agents run enterprises, hardware is developed rapidly, and physical limits are pushed. It emphasizes a partnership-driven identity, positioning itself as the investor founders call in moments of crisis. Bee Partners writes conviction-first pre-seed checks of $300K to $500K and has historically supported roughly 60% of its companies through to Series A.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 25, 2026.
Team · 9 people
from the firm's website & public directories
Founder mafia
2 people who came through Bee Partners went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 32 of 104 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×18SaaS ×12Enterprise Software ×10Developer Tools ×6Biotech ×4Data & Infrastructure ×4Deep Tech ×4Climate Tech ×3
HQs:United States×26Canada×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 14 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×82 founders×54+ founders×1
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
Investments · 104 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2025 · 12023 · 22022 · 12021 · 12020 · 12019 · 12018 · 12017 · 22015 · 414 dated
CoreStory builds a persistent intelligence model of software codebases by continuously ingesting source code and serving system context—architecture, workflows, and business rules—to engineers, product teams, and AI coding agents.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Anand Kulkarni(Founder)in
Co-investorsHomebrewNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)SINEWAVE VENTURESJackson Square VenturesTribeca Venture PartnersTech Square Ventures
DeepScribe builds an ambient AI documentation platform for oncology, including an AI medical scribe, pre-visit chart summaries, AI medical coding, and note customization.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtechSan Francisco, US
Matthew Ko(Executive Officer, Director)inAkilesh Dyanesh Bapu(Executive Officer, Director)Akilesh Bapu(Founder)inKairui Zeng(Executive Officer)
BoardMichael Berolzheimer(Director)in
Board seatMichael T. Berolzheimer· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsBerkeley SkyDeck FundFoothill VenturesFour Acres CapitalIndex VenturesStage 2 Capital1984 Ventures Management, Llc+2 more
Cambridge, US
Brian Rossa(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardMichael Berolzheimer(Director)in
Board seatMichael T. Berolzheimer· per SEC Form D · $1M raise · filed Mar 2017
Nova builds AI-powered documentation that creates a searchable record of software objects, dependencies, and actual usage, and lets users query it in plain language.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSBrookline, US
Emma Qian(Co-Founder & CEO)inRobert May(Executive Officer, Director)
Board seatKira Noodleman· per SEC Form D · $4.3M raise · filed Feb 2024
Co-investorsAccelConvictionPosition Ventures
New York, US
Marc Guldimann(Executive Officer, Director)Diane deCordova(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardMichael Berolzheimer(Director)in
Board seatMichael T. Berolzheimer· per SEC Form D · $2.1M raise · filed Jul 2018
Voltaiq offers an AI-powered SaaS platform for the battery industry that collects and harmonizes data across the battery lifecycle, automates anomaly and quality detection, and provides root-cause analysis and natural-language data querying.
AI & Machine LearningCleantechEnergyEnterprise SoftwareSaaSBrooklyn, US
Tal Sholklapper(Co-founder & CEO)inEli Leland(Co-founder & CTO)in
BoardMichael Berolzheimer(Director)in
Board seatMichael T. Berolzheimer· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsAnzu PartnersConductor CapitalSJF VenturesThin Line Capital
AI middleware for biomedical signal data
Atym provides a software platform for building and running applications on embedded and edge devices, enabling software-defined connected products.
Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareIoTSan Francisco, US
Jason Shepherd(Executive Officer, Director)Joshua Silber(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardSimon Lancaster-Larocque(Director)
Co-investorsMomenta Ventures
BuildingConnected is a construction bid management platform that connects general contractors, subcontractors, and project owners to streamline bidding workflows and prequalification processes across a network of over 1 million construction professionals.
B2B MarketplacesConstruction TechSaaS
Co-investorsBrick Mortar VenturesCrosslink CapitalHomebrewLightspeed Venture PartnersManta Ray VenturesMetaProp Ventures+4 more
Circe uses a proprietary aerobic gas fermentation process to convert point-source CO₂ emissions into carbon-negative molecules that are drop-in equivalents of ingredients used in food, chemical, and fuel manufacturing.
BiotechCleantechClimate Tech
Co-investorsElementum VenturesExceptional VenturesJuniperSilicon ValleyUndeterred Capital
Nature's Touch in the Concrete Jungle
Crowdbotics (now CoreStory) offers AI-based tools to analyze how existing software systems work, aimed at software modernization and maintenance.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareBerkeley, US
Anand Kulkarni(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardHunter Walk(Director)inVictor Echevarria(Director)in
Co-investorsJackson Square VenturesNimble PartnersSamsung NextHarrison MetalHomebrewNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)+1 more
Chicago, US
Christine Izuakor(Executive Officer)
Co-investorsBetter Ventures Central Llc
AI copilot for hardware engineering design
Embroker is a digital-first business insurance provider that lets companies compare, purchase, and manage commercial insurance policies online, combining an insurance platform with expert broker support.
AI & Machine LearningFintechInsurTechSaaS
Matt Miller(Founder)inYotam Shacham(Founder)Ben Jennings(CEO)in
Co-investorsFTV Capital500 GlobalCanaan PartnersChaos VenturesClocktower VenturesMassMutual Ventures+6 more
Autonomous AI agents that build micro-startups
Florence operates an AI-powered trial operations platform that connects research sites with sponsors and life science organizations to run clinical trials from startup through closeout.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtechAtlanta, US
Ryan Jones(Executive Officer, Director)Andres Garcia(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardPeter Sobiloff(Director)Garrett Goldberg(Director)inJon Rosenbaum(Director)Jeffrey Muir(Director)in
Co-investorsBaleon CapitalFulcrum Equity PartnersGray VenturesBessemer Venture PartnersInsight Partners
Co-investorsHBS Angels of BostonHyperplane Venture Capital
Milo Krastev(Founder)in
Co-investorsHealthtech CapitalMayfield FundNAV.VCNew Ground VenturesRally Ventures Management, Llc
Future Fields uses fruit flies as bioreactors to produce difficult-to-express proteins at scale for pharmaceutical, agricultural, and food applications.
AgTechBiotechCircular EconomyClimate TechDeep TechFoodTechHealthtechEdmonton, CA
Matt Anderson-Baron(Founder)inJalene Anderson-Baron(Founder)in
Co-investorsAmplify CapitalEdmonton UnlimitedGreen Circle Foodtech VenturesKeiki CapitalSiddhi CapitalStartup TNT+7 more
Intelligence grid for physical AI
Geosite is a cloud platform that aggregates public and commercial geospatial data including satellite imagery, allowing users to search, purchase, and manage datasets for planning and operations.
Enterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Rachel Olney(Founder)in
Co-investorsIntelis CapitalMS&AD VenturesY CombinatorLavrock VenturesNextGen Venture Partners
Co-investorsUncork Capital
Bee Partners is a pre-seed venture capital firm that backs technical founders at inception across AI, robotics, advanced manufacturing, and synthetic biology.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechRobotics
Michael Berolzheimer(Founder & Managing Partner)inJocelyne Cooke(CFO)in
Co-investorsNimble Partners
Iris Automation develops artificial intelligence software that enables industrial drones to operate autonomously, with a focus on collision avoidance capabilities for safer operations.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningRoboticsSan Francisco, US
Alexander Harmsen(Founder/CEO)inJames Howard(Founder/CTO)in
Co-investorsARC Angel FundBessemer Venture PartnersFlucas VenturesSony Ventures CorporationY CombinatorNotable Capital
Izote is a fermentation technology company developing an anaerobic process for industrial biomanufacturing.
BiotechDeep TechNew Materials
Co-investorsFREEFLOWFTW VenturesJuniperRedstick VenturesCourtyard VenturesEmbark Ventures+1 more
Knowde provides a data management platform for industrial businesses, specifically chemicals and ingredients, that uses AI to extract, structure, and harmonize fragmented master data from legacy systems.
B2B MarketplacesData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Ali Amin-Javaheri(CEO)inWojciech Krupa(Founder)in
Co-investorsCoatue ManagementMantis CapitalPoint72 VenturesSequoia CapitalTq Ventures LlcBlue Cloud Ventures+1 more
Koop provides insurance solutions designed to protect technology-based companies and services from operational risks including system failures and outages.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareInsurTech
Zak G.(Founder)in
Co-investorsAlleyCorpFusionAlley Robotics VenturesUbiquity VenturesWestWave Capital
LeadGenius provides AI-powered contact intelligence and data sourcing for go-to-market teams to identify and engage target customers.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareMedia & EntertainmentSaaSSales TechSan Francisco, US
Anand Kulkarni(Founder/CEO)inPrayag Narula(Founder)inPhilipp Gutheim(Founder/COO)inDave Rolnitzky(Founder/CPO)inMark GodleyZeb Couch
Co-investors500 GlobalBetter Ventures Central LlcFundersClubJavelin Venture PartnersKapor CapitalLumia Capital+6 more
Oakland, US
Maya Tobias(Executive Officer, Director)Benjamin Hamlin(Executive Officer, Director)
Magoosh is an online test preparation service offering video lessons, practice questions, flashcard apps, and score predictors for standardized exams such as the GRE and TOEFL.
ConsumerEdTechHR TechSaaS
Bhavin Parikh(Founder)inHansoo LeePejman Pour-MoezziVikram Shenoy
Co-investors500 GlobalKapor CapitalNorth Bridge Venture Partners
Provides immersive virtual reality learning experiences to enterprise-scale customers across verticals.
Co-investorsAIN VenturesSpacecadet Ventures
New Culture produces animal-free dairy cheese products, starting with mozzarella for pizzerias, using food science to replicate the taste, melt, and stretch of conventional cheese.
Climate TechFoodTech
Co-investorsAhren Innovation CapitalAsymmetry VenturesGenoa VenturesS2G InvestmentsSynthesis Capital
Okareo tests conversational and voice AI agents using synthetic users ("Drivers") that simulate real customers across long, multi-turn conversations in 30+ languages to expose edge cases and regressions.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaSSan Francisco, US
Boris Selitser(Founder)
Co-investorsAV8 VenturesRace Capital
Self-maintaining, agent-ready documentation for developer products
Oqoqo is an experimentation platform for testing and evaluating agentic AI workflows in production-like, isolated sandbox environments.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Co-investorsNuMundo VenturesSterling Road
Pow.Bio develops a high-efficiency continuous fermentation platform for biomanufacturing that enables production of biotech products at lower cost and faster timelines.
BiotechDeep Tech
Shannon Hall(CEO)inOuwei Wang(CTO)
Co-investorsBetter Ventures Central LlcHitachi VenturesiSelect FundJuniperVectors AngelBetter Ventures+4 more
San Francisco, US
Jordan Kretchmer(Founder)
Co-investorsMillennium New HorizonsMillennium Technology Value PartnersRackhouse Venture Management LpSQN Venture Partners, LLC468 CapitalGreycroft
Co-investorsComet LabsHemisphere Ventures LLCOlive Tree CapitalV1 VC
Reshape Automation builds a "knowledge grounding layer" and tool harness for industrial companies, structuring product catalogs, compatibility rules, and approved substitutes into a queryable graph that AI agents can cite.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software
Co-investorsSchematic Ventures
Skipify provides a "Commerce Identity Cloud" that identifies online shoppers at checkout and connects them with financial institutions to retrieve payment methods in real time, working within a merchant's existing ecommerce and payments stack.
AI & Machine LearningE-commerceFintech
Co-investorsInfinity VenturesPoint72 VenturesSamsung Next
Skycatch provides spatial data capture, processing, and analysis solutions for mining and industrial operations, using AI capabilities to generate near-real-time digital twins and deliver operational insights.
AgTechAI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureIrving, US
Christian Sanz(Founder & CEO)Mark Heynen(Executive Officer)Sam Miller(Executive Officer)Ram Shriram(Director)
BoardRichard Levandov(Director)B. Paul Santos(Director)
Co-investorsADB VenturesAkkadian VenturesEntrée CapitalMind the Seed - MTS FundMS&AD VenturesRoot Ventures Manager, Llc+6 more
Sourcetable is an AI-powered spreadsheet that lets users query databases and applications in plain English, generate charts, clean and structure data, and run Python-based analysis without switching tools.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureFuture of WorkSaaSSan Francisco, US
Eoin J.W. McMillan(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardMichael Berolzheimer(Director)
Co-investorsJames Beshara FundNextView VenturesTRAC (Third Round Analytics Capital)Amplify.LAPreston-Werner Ventures
StatMuse is an AI-powered media platform that provides instant answers to sports and finance questions through search, covering statistics, scores, betting, fantasy data, and market information.
AI & Machine LearningMedia & EntertainmentSports TechSan Francisco, US
Eli Dawson(Executive Officer, Director)Adam Elmore(Executive Officer, Director)in
Co-investorsSprint VcTechstarsGreycroft Partners
San Francisco, US
Yashar Behzadi(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Andrew Rabinovich(Director)
Co-investorsLeta CapitalPJC468 CapitalBoom Capital Ventures
AI-powered data platform for life science research
Social app acquired by Facebook.
Company building autonomous AI agents for data engineering; acquired by Snowflake
Biraj Silwal(Founder)in
Co-investorsGlasswing VenturesS3 VenturesGaingels
ConsumerSanta Monica, US
Tracy DiNunzio(Founder & Chief Executive Officer)inCarol Koh Evans(Executive Officer)Aleksandr Catanzarite(Executive Officer, Director)John Hall(Executive Officer)Sash Catanzarite
BoardJohn Doerr(Director)in
Co-investors500 GlobalBonfire VenturesMultiplier CapitalKleiner PerkinsRincon Venture Partners
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AdTechMarketing TechSaaS
Co-investorsFoundation Capital
Oakland, US
Dav Yaginuma(Executive Officer, Director)Kunal Sarkar(Executive Officer, Director)Daniel Weiss(Executive Officer)
BoardGarrett Goldberg(Director)in
Vacatia operates an online platform for buying, selling, and booking timeshare and resort vacation accommodations, offering resort-style lodging paired with hotel-like services.
ConsumerMarketplacesPropTechTravel & HospitalitySan Francisco, US
Steven Muldowney(Executive Officer)Caroline Shin(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardNoah Doyle(Director)inAmy Errett(Director)inRobert Spottswood(Director)Keith Cox(Director)
Co-investorsAUTHENTIC VENTURESBrainstorm VenturesJavelin Venture PartnersZenStone Venture CapitalTrue Ventures
Easier Procurement for Dentists
Xola is a reservation and booking software platform for tour, activity, and attraction operators, offering online checkout, POS and ticketing, digital waivers, staff and equipment management, marketing tools, and reporting.
Marketing TechRetail TechSaaSTravel & HospitalitySan Francisco, US
Anush Ramani(Executive Officer, Director)James Scott Zimmerman(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardShunsuke Hoshino(Director)Michael Burry(Director)
Co-investorsCamp One VenturesDoon Capital
AI-powered search engine for electronic components.
Co-investorsAugment VenturesNido Ventures
Co-investorsHemisphere Ventures LLC
Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.
Exits · 1
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfoliotbhacq. by Allume Energy
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Oqoqo · beepartners.vc · Aug 17, 2026
Nova AI · technology.org · Jul 29, 2026
Building Connected · fortuneindia.com · Jul 17, 2026
Zenode · beepartners.vc · May 19, 2026
TensorStax · infotechlead.com · May 15, 2026
Voltaiq · beepartners.vc · Apr 20, 2026
Embroker · beepartners.vc · Apr 20, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Bee Partners made?
- Bee Partners has 91 tracked investments, 1 of which have exited via acquisition or IPO.
- What stage does Bee Partners invest at?
- Bee Partners invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
- What is Bee Partners's typical check size?
- Bee Partners typically writes checks of $300K – $500K.
- What sectors does Bee Partners focus on?
- Bee Partners focuses on Advanced Manufacturing, AI & Machine Learning, Biotech, Climate Tech, Deep Tech, Enterprise Software, FoodTech, Future of Work, Hardware, Robotics.
- Where is Bee Partners located?
- Bee Partners is headquartered in Lafayette, US.
- Does Bee Partners lead rounds?
- Bee Partners typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
- Who does Bee Partners co-invest with?
- Bee Partners most often shares deals with 500 Global, Better Ventures Central Llc, Javelin Venture Partners, among 108 tracked co-investors.
From the blog
visit blog ↗Bee Partners has written about orbital semiconductor manufacturing as the next industrial shift, hardware tooling that compresses design timelines through AI-powered component sourcing, and structural changes in venture capital favoring mega-funds and forcing sub-$100M managers toward sector specialization. AI summary
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the teamMeet The VC: Garrett Goldberg of Bee Partners
Early Growth · Garrett Goldberg
Episode #21 – Garrett Goldberg, Partner, Bee Partners, active Seed VC in San Francisco
Andrew Romans · Garrett Goldberg
Startup Investors: An Intro to Bee Partners, With Garrett Goldberg
Mindset Startup Academy - Verlin Gradney · Garrett Goldberg
VentureForth with Michael Berolzheimer, founder & managing partner @ Bee Partners
Joe Mahavuthivanij · Michael Berolzheimer
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Index Ventures is a multi-stage venture capital firm that backs companies from Seed to IPO and beyond, including through its dedicated seed fund Index Origin.
Tribeca Venture Partners is a New York-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage founders using emerging technologies to build category-defining companies.
Preston-Werner Ventures is a venture capital firm associated with Tom Preston-Werner, cofounder of GitHub, who has moved into venture investing.
Refactor is a seed-stage venture firm run as a solo capitalist by Zal, backing founders building hard tech companies that address real-world problems.
1984 Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that backs founders, publishing content on fundraising, company building, and AI. Its portfolio includes companies such as PostHog and Proxie.
Foothill Ventures is a technology-focused venture fund based in Los Altos, California, run by a team with founder and operator backgrounds. It makes early-stage investments in frontier technology, particularly infrastructure and AI applications.
Toyota Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area that makes early-stage investments in startups globally.
Supernode Ventures is an early-stage, sector-agnostic technology venture firm founded in 2017 whose inaugural fund backed pre-seed and seed startups across sectors including fintech, healthtech and B2B/enterprise.
Cantos Ventures is an early-stage venture firm founded in 2016 that provides initial capital and ongoing counsel to founders building deep technology in areas such as robotics, energy, space, defense, and advanced manufacturing.
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