Founded in 2009, Bee Partners is a pre-seed venture capital firm that partners with revolutionary founders working at the forefront of human-machine convergence across technologies that include robotics, AI, voice, industrial and synthetic biology. The firm leverages a singular approach to detecting new and emerging patterns of business, as well as inside access to fertile but often overlooked entrepreneurial ecosystems, to identify early opportunity in large, untapped markets. Bee’s portfolio companies consistently realize growth at levels that outstrip industry averages and secure follow-on capital from the world's top VCs.
Location: United States, California, San Francisco
Employees: 1-10
Founded date: 2009
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Seed
Portfolio 56
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 22.02.2023 | Future Fie... | futurefields.io | $13.4M | Canada, Al... |
| 28.07.2022 | InnerPlant | innerplant.com | $46M | United Sta... |
| - | Tari | tari.com | - | South Afri... |
| - | AxleHire | axlehire.com | $20M | Australia,... |
| - | New Cultur... | newculturefood.com | $28.5M | United Sta... |
| - | EVOL Foods | evolfoods.com | - | Colombia, ... |
| - | Embroker | embroker.com | $140.2M | United Sta... |
| - | NameBright | deeperlooknetwork.com | - | - |
| - | Pow.bio | pow.bio | $9.5M | Australia,... |
| - | Crowdbotic... | crowdbotics.com | $62M | United Sta... |
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Persons 1
| Date | First Name | Last Name | Title | |||
| - | Garrett | Goldberg | Founder &a... | linkedin.c... | - | - |
News 42
| Date | Title | Description |
| 25.04.2023 | Climate Tech Deep Tech | The original publishing of this article can be found here. Written by Ale Vergara of Bee Partners and Bogdan Cristei of Union Labs Ventures. They are early-stage, deep tech investors and members of the Bay Area Deep Tech community. |
| 08.02.2023 | Bee Partners supports Sound Credit Founder / CEO Gebre Waddell in the milestone partnership announcement between PPL (London) and Sound Credit (Memphis) at the 2023 Grammys. | This article was written by Paul Resnikoff and originally published on Digital Music News. |
| 14.12.2022 | who we donated to this year ⚡ | Here is who the Bee Partners team donated to this year, if you feel compelled, consider a gift for the holiday season… |
| 27.09.2022 | A Hive for Entrepreneurs: Michael Berolzheimer, BS’00, and Kira Noodleman, BA’08 | Written by Jennifer Plant Johnston, MLAS’21 for Vanderbilt Magazine, original article can be viewed here. |
| 27.09.2022 | “If young folks can become comfortable with discomfort, it builds resiliency and grit, and it leads to possibility. It leads to a life of unbounded potential.” | Written by Jennifer Plant Johnston, MLAS’21 for Vanderbilt Magazine, original article can be viewed here. |
| 22.09.2022 | Starting with Pre-Seed from Bee Partners to Solving a $1T Farming Pain Point with Support from John Deere | Source: InnerPlant |
| 20.09.2022 | Regional Mindset: a new breed of Latam Founders | Image: crunchbase |
| 14.09.2022 | Autonomous Vehicle Insurtech Koop Technologies Launches Industry-First Robotics Errors & Omissions Insurance Product | |
| 07.09.2022 | Bee Partners Adds Product & Startup Expert Alejandra Vergara as Associate | San Francisco and Denver - September 8, 2022 - Continuing its unconventional approach to team building, Bee Partners recently hired Ale Vergara as an Associate. Michael Berolzheimer, Founder & Managing Partner commented, “We underwrite ... |
| 25.08.2022 | Head of Platform Hire, Austin Grisham, Expands the Bee Team Beyond the General Partnership | It is with great excitement we announced the addition of Austin Grisham as Head of Platform. As the team expands beyond the general partnership, the growth is a testament to the firm's focus on network ecosystem expansion and brand building... |
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Mentions in press and media 32
| Date | Title | Description |
| 13.05.2025 | TensorStax: Pioneering the Future of Data Engineering with Deterministic AI Agents | In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, data engineering stands as a formidable fortress. It’s complex, rigid, and often unforgiving. Enter TensorStax, a San Francisco-based startup that has just raised $5 million in seed funding to t... |
| 12.05.2025 | TensorStax gets $5M in funding to automate data engineering with deterministic AI agents A deterministic approach to data pipeline automation A bottleneck for AI scalability Your vote of support is im... | A startup called TensorStax says it’s looking to bring artificial intelligence-powered automation to the unyielding world of data engineering after raising $5 million in seed funding. Today’s round was led by Glasswing Ventures and saw part... |
| 02.11.2023 | Bee Partners Closes Fund IV, at Over $50M | Bee Partners, a San Francisco, CA-based venture capital firm which specializes in DeepTech preSeed investments, closed its fourth fund, at over $50M. Led by Michael Berolzheimer, Managing Partner, Bee Partners leverages an investment strate... |
| 01.11.2023 | Bee Partners closes fourth fund to add more capital for pre-seed founders in deep tech | For pre-seed founders innovating in the deep tech space, Bee Partners wants to be partners with you. It closed on $50 million in commitments for its fourth fund, which Michael Berolzheimer, managing partner, said was oversubscribed. The San... |
| 13.04.2023 | 13 VCs talk about the state of robotics investing in 2023 | Robotics is a fascinating topic. It can be frustrating, too. When I started covering the space nearly 15 years ago, there was a sense that something big was looming, just over the horizon. But roboticists are a pragmatic bunch, offering pro... |
| 29.09.2022 | Deere’s investment in InnerPlant is about changing Big Ag. More corporates need to follow suit | John Deere‘s recent investment in crop health startup InnerPlant is far bigger than the $16 million figure attached to the deal. In many ways, it seems Deere is investing in not one company but an entirely new way of doing crop protection a... |
| 13.09.2022 | Bee Partners Adds Two To Team | Bee Partners, a San Francisco, CA- and Denver, CO-based pre-seed venture capital firm, recently hired Alejandra Vergara as an Associate, and Austin Grisham as Head of Platform. Born in Chile, Vergara earned her MBA from UC Berkeley Haas Sch... |
| 23.11.2021 | ADM, Kraft & Dr Oetker back bovine-free mozzarella maker New Culture in $25m round | US alt-dairy startup New Culture has raised $25 million in Series A funding to bring its bovine-free mozzarella product to market. Founded in 2018 by CEO Matt Gibson and chief scientific officer Inja Radman, New Culture is using precision f... |
| 23.11.2021 | BREAKING: ADM, Kraft & Dr Oetker back bovine-free mozzarella maker New Culture in $25m round | US alt-dairy startup New Culture has raised $25 million in Series A funding to bring its bovine-free mozzarella product to market. Founded in 2018 by CEO Matt Gibson and chief scientific officer Inja Radman, New Culture is using precision f... |
| 23.08.2021 | Autonomy insurance startup Koop Technologies raised a $2.5M seed round | Artificial intelligence and autonomy come with a host of unprecedented considerations in terms of safety and liability, so it only makes sense that insurance should change alongside them. That’s where North Side-based autonomy insurance sta... |
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