Bee Partners

Investor type

VC

Founded

2009

AUM

$150 M

Location

San Francisco, California, United States

Investment Ticket

$1-5 m

Investment Stage

Pre-seed Seed Series A

Region of investment

North America Europe
Investor profile last updated: 16 August, 2026

Profile

Bee Partners works with passionate entrepreneurs possessing Deep Market Insights. We are frequently the first outside capital into a pre-Seed company. We also invest at the Seed-stage, helping to refer reference customers, capital sources, strategic insights, leadership support and more. At Bee Partners, we’re ready and eager to slog through the various tribulations of entrepreneurship and help founders produce efficient, elegant, and lasting companies that create or meaningfully change customer experiences.





Bee Partners operates upon the foundation of five firm values: practice “Integrity Investing” (we live by the Golden Rule), invest in building companies, balance intuition with data, appreciate that time is worth more than money, and go beyond yourself. Bee Partners seeks out Founders with grit, uncanny passion, resource magnetism, and empathy.

Industry

Education Fintech Healthcare Services Marketing and Advertising Software Travel Edtech Fashion/Beauty Financial Services Food and Beverage Foodtech Gaming Media and Entertainment Other Real Estate Robotics Security Sports/SportsTech Telecommunications Transportation MedTech Life Sciences Infrastructure Energy Music HealthTech AdTech TravelTech SaaS

Bee Partners Funds

Name Type
Questionare
Industry
Questionare
Stage
Questionare
Region
Size AUM Launch date
Bee Partners Fund I
Venture Capital (VC)
Financial Services
Fintech
Healthcare Services
Marketing and Advertising
SaaS
Security
Software
HealthTech
Pre-seed
Seed
North America
$5-10 m
$7 M
October 2011
Bee Partners Fund II
Venture Capital (VC)
Financial Services
Fintech
Healthcare Services
Marketing and Advertising
SaaS
Software
Energy
HealthTech
Pre-seed
Seed
North America
$5-10 m
$39 M
June 2016
Bee Partners Fund IV
Venture Capital (VC)
Financial Services
Fintech
Healthcare Services
Marketing and Advertising
SaaS
Software
HealthTech
Pre-seed
Seed
North America
$5-10 m
$50 M
October 2023

Contacts

Name
Title
Email
avatar
Michael Berolzheimer Founder & Managing Partner
Founder & Managing Partner
m•••@•••
avatar
Tim Smith Partner, Portfolio Operations
Partner, Portfolio Operations
t•••@•••
Upgrade to see contacts
avatar
N2IBa6ZWT934gAEf N2IBa6ZWT934gAEf
N2IBa6ZWT934gAEf
avatar
N2IBa6ZWT934gAEf N2IBa6ZWT934gAEf
N2IBa6ZWT934gAEf
avatar
N2IBa6ZWT934gAEf N2IBa6ZWT934gAEf
N2IBa6ZWT934gAEf
Investment-team contacts for Bee Partners — including verified work emails and LinkedIn profiles — are available to Private Equity List subscribers.
Instant access on the web. Plans from $129/month — see pricing.
Contacts sourced from the firm's website and LinkedIn, re-verified on a rolling cycle. Spot a stale contact, or none at all? Report it — we re-run that firm within 48h and get back to you.

FAQs about Bee Partners

Bee Partners is a venture capital firm. It backs companies at Pre-seed, Seed and Series A, writing tickets of $1-5 m.
Bee Partners is located in San Francisco, California, United States.
Bee Partners was founded in 2009.
Bee Partners invests in companies and startups in Education, Fintech, Healthcare Services, Marketing and Advertising, Software, Travel, Edtech, Fashion/Beauty, Financial Services, Food and Beverage, Foodtech, Gaming, Media and Entertainment, Other, Real Estate, Robotics, Security, Sports/SportsTech, Telecommunications, Transportation, MedTech, Life Sciences, Infrastructure, Energy, Music, HealthTech, AdTech, TravelTech, SaaS.
Bee Partners invests in companies and startups in North America, Europe.
Bee Partners invests in companies and startups at Pre-seed, Seed, Series A.
Bee Partners usually invests $1-5 m on average.
Bee Partners has around $150m assets under management.
Bee Partners last fund was created/launched in 2023-10-01
Bee Partners can be reached through its website beepartners.vc, its LinkedIn page and its X account. Its general enquiries address is [email protected]. Cold-mailing a general inbox rarely reaches a partner, so Private Equity List also lists the investment-team contacts for Bee Partners — names, roles, verified work emails and LinkedIn profiles — available on a Pro plan from $129/month (see pricing). Contacts are sourced from the firm's website and LinkedIn and re-verified on a rolling cycle. Spot a stale contact, or none at all? Report it — we re-run that firm within 48h and get back to you.
Yes. Every field on this page — profile, funds, investment criteria, portfolio and investment-team contacts — is available programmatically through the Private Equity List REST API and MCP server, so AI assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT can query Bee Partners directly instead of scraping this page. One subscription covers both the web app and machine access — see API & MCP.
Private Equity List re-verifies investor profiles on a rolling cycle, pulling from the firm's own website and LinkedIn rather than a one-off import. This profile was last updated on 16 August, 2026. Something out of date here? Report it — we re-run that firm within 48h and get back to you.