Bee Partners Adds Two To Team

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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 School of Business with a certificate in Entrepreneurship and Technology. While in business school, she founded two Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning and Material Sciences startups with multi-disciplinary teams. Vergara was co-president of Haas Venture Capital Club, a team lead for Berkeley Female Founders & Funders, and a fellow at UC Berkeley’s SkyDeck Accelerator. Before moving to the Bay Area, she spent six years in Financial Services at JP Morgan and Investment Management at Falcom Asset Management. At Falcom, Vergara quickly grew into a Portfolio Manager role, managing two top-tier funds, one of which she founded.

Austin Grisham will join Kira Noodleman, Partner, in the Denver based office. Born and raised in Memphis, TN, Grisham is a two-time founder, initially establishing a boutique agency in 2016 focused on storytelling, content creation and brand strategy. Next, he founded an agricultural startup based in Rwanda working to integrate sustainable agriculture and grow supply chains for larger consumer brands in the U.S. for makeup, food production and other consumables. Additionally, he owned/operated a Whole Foods CPG company from 2019-2020.

Led by Michael Berolzheimer, Founder & Managing Partner, Bee Partners is a deep tech 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, i4.0, and synthetic biology.

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13/09/2022