Michael Berolzheimer is the Founder and Managing Partner of Bee Partners. See sector focus and contact routes.
Michael Berolzheimer is the Founder and Managing Partner of Bee Partners, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm he established in 2008 after working in investment banking and private equity in New York. He leads a pre-seed and seed-focused investment thesis centered on deep technology sectors including artificial intelligence, robotics, synthetic biology, and enterprise software. The firm typically writes initial checks between $500,000 and $1.5 million and serves as the first investor in over 60% of its portfolio companies. Notable early-stage investments include TubeMogul, IndieGoGo, Tradesy, and Bear Naked Granola, which was also his first angel investment in 2004. Berolzheimer emphasizes partnering with founders who possess “intelligence, grit, and humanity” to build transformative companies shaping human-machine interaction and biological machines. His distinctive point of view centers on investing at the “inception stage,” taking bold bets on entrepreneurs whose vision aligns with the firm’s three investment vectors: Human-Machine Interaction, Machine-to-Machine Learning, and Biological Machines.
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