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Michael Berolzheimer

Setting Bee Partners’ vision for next two decades as the leading pre-Seed firm in Silicon Valley

San Francisco, California

Skills

Venture Capital
Marketing Strategy
Networking
Consumer Products
Start-ups
Private Equity
Financial Modeling
Due Diligence
Entrepreneurship
Business Strategy
Technology Coaching
Strategic Customer Development
Angel Investing
Internet
Board Governance
Valuation
Negotiation
Culture Development
Family Business
Competitive Analysis

Education

Work Experience

  • Founder & Managing Partner

    2008

    I provide vision for the Firm, my life calling... 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. Selected portfolio companies include: TubeMogul (Nasdaq: TUBE), Indiegogo, Skycatch, Tradesy, Magoosh, Zipongo, LeadGenius, Ordergroove, Vacatia, Sled/Parsec, Neighborly, StatMuse, Embroker, BuildingConnected, Iris, Identify3d, Florence Healthcare and many more. Check out who's hiring in the portfolio: https://angel.co/jobs?slug=bee-partners&utm_source=profile_module

  • Board Observer

    2019

  • Board Member

    2015

    Embroker is a cloud-based platform that provides businesses with tools to understand risk and empowers them with the information needed to make intelligent insurance decisions. Focused initially on property and casualty insurance, Embroker’s software brings transparency to customer’s policies, enabling brokers to better serve them.

  • Board Member

    2015

    Voltaiq is an enterprise SaaS predictive analytics platform that helps companies developing batteries and battery-powered systems to ship products faster and ensure quality and reliability in the field. Voltaiq aggregates battery performance data throughout the product lifecycle, from product development through manufacturing and operation, providing powerful analysis to optimize performance and predict lifetime and failure in battery applications.

  • Board Member

    2015

    StatMuse is an artificial intelligence platform offering natural language for analytics. Their proprietary NLP layer allows consumer and enterprise users to search, analyze, and visualize data sets like never before. Users can themselves think analytically, ask naturally, and glean previously unavailable insights into their proprietary data.

nubix

2018

  • Board Member

    2018

    nubix is a system of intelligence platform to control large IT and IoT infrastructures (data centers, wind farms). We solve the urgent problems that come with scale - volume, mix, latency - which can inflict great expense in underperformance and downtime. Our unique tech is a decentralized, ‘swarmy’ edge analytics fabric that scales without limit, ingests from any data source and can instantly remediate anomalies with local-loop AI.

2014

  • Board Observer

    2014

    Sideqik is the partnership platform for marketers. We help you grow your customers and revenue by connecting you with your partners, launching collaborative cross-promotions, and measuring the effectiveness of your partnerships using the first “Together Marketing” platform.

  • Board Observer

    2016

    Localwise is the local job community. We connect local people to jobs at local businesses. At Localwise, we believe stronger local businesses create stronger local communities. If you’re hiring, consider posting your jobs on Localwise (especially non-technical jobs and internships) - www.localwise.com. You’ll reach thousands of local job seekers in the Bay Area.

2016 - 2020

  • Board Member

    2016 - 2020

    Parsec is an innovative ad unit designed specifically for mobile content consumption. By integrating proprietary inventory into the ergonomic mobile scroll of publisher content, Parsec offers a turn-key solution for publishers to more effectively monetize their mobile audience. Check out job opportunities here: https://angel.co/parsec/jobs

2016 - 2017

  • Board Member

    2016 - 2017

    Capio has developed the next generation of voice-driven and context-aware human-computer interaction (HCI). Unlike today’s speech-to-text voice processing systems, Capio delivers a contextually-aware and natural, conversational agent, resulting in a paradigm shift in how we interact with all types of machines and devices in the future. As a spin-out from Carnegie Mellon University, the company builds upon 50 man-years of research and development in Machine Learning and HCI technologies to deliver true conversational interaction.