Bee Partners

Bee Partners is a venture capital firm that invests at pre-seed, before a startup has a product or revenue. It works with technical founders and describes a track record of about fifteen years and nearly 100 portfolio companies.

What Bee Partners offers

• Pre-seed investment: early backing for technical companies at the point of inception.
• Operator support: a team and bench of operators who share experience and strategic advice with founders.
• Introductions: links to customers and sources of capital.
• Published research: a paper on machine-to-machine learning that describes how such innovations develop in three waves.

Who it works with

The firm focuses on technical founders whose companies fall into three areas: biological machines, human-machine interaction and machine learning. Its portfolio has included companies in synthetic data, lab-grown food and industrial automation.

Key facts

• Track record: about fifteen years of investing
• Portfolio: nearly 100 companies
• Exits mentioned: TubeMogul, BuildingConnected, tbh and TensorStax