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Tim Smith
Investor at Bee Partners
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Tim Smith is an Entrepreneur and Investor currently serving as a Partner at Bee Partners in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a background in entrepreneurship and experience design, he has invested in companies like WARP (Seed) and holds advisory roles in organizations such as AxleHire and O Inc.
Highlights of Tim's career include his role as a Guest Lecturer at Stanford University Graduate School of Business and his previous position as a Venture Fellow and Design Program Lead at Skydeck | Berkeley, showcasing his expertise in entrepreneurship, innovation, and venture capital.
Work Experience
Partner
2017 - Current
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 leads pre-seed deeptech investing, writing first checks to Founders building AI/ML, Robotics, Automation, MFG and related tech.
Guest Lecturer
2016
Regular guest lecturer at U.C. Berkeley Haas School of Business Executive Program in their entrepreneurship program. Lead a twice-yearly Design & Rapid Prototyping lecture and workshop for international entrepreneurial teams.
Venture Fellow / Design Program Lead
2013
Skydeck | Berkeley is a startup accelerator program created as a joint venture among the College of Engineering, Haas School of Business, and Vice Chancellor for Research Office at UC Berkeley. It is deeply integrated into the research, educational and service programs of the University. Skydeck's goal is to graduate fundable startups by providing access to mentors, VCs, and other entrepreneurs.
SkyDeck Berkeley is a research university accelerator that serves as an apex startup launchpad for affiliated entrepreneurs.
Board Member
2021 - 2024
Music credit capture and delivery platform ensuring music creators are properly credited and paid. In the age of digital distribution, the stories and artwork once included with music have disappeared. Sound Credit is the new standard, allowing you to collect and track credits as they happen and publish them or deliver to labels.
Sound Credit is modernizing the business of recorded music with a workflow platform providing efficiency, collaboration and integrations.
Raised $1,600,000.00 from Corridor Ventures.
Board Member
2021 - 2024
Warp is building a fully connected end to end, middle mile logistics platform. The company provides LTL (less than truckload) consolidation and optimization, crossdock hardware and software, and carrier tools and micro services to shippers, via the crossdock operators.
Warp connects shippers, carriers, and facilities to digitize the trucking model and create the efficient routes for middle-mile freight.
Raised $8,100,000.00 from Frontier Venture Capital, MaC Venture Capital, Bonfire Ventures, Bee Partners and Amplify.LA.
Advisor / Investor
2016 - 2022
Solving last-mile same-day delivery with the great team at AxleHire, a Berkeley SkyDeck and R/GA ConnectedCommerce alum company. Focusing on strategy and application design for clients, drivers and end-customers. Angel and institutional (via Bee) investor.
A last-mile delivery service that helps brands like American Eagle, HelloFresh and Nespresso meet and exceed customer expectations
Raised $44,720,000.00 from Bossanova Investimentos, Ajax Strategies, Eclipse Ventures, Quiet 3PF, Bee Partners and Acorn Pacific Ventures.
Guest Lecturer
2022 - 2022
Guest lecturer at Stanford University Graduate School of Business in various entrepreneurship programs. Lead a periodic Design & Rapid Prototyping lecture and workshop for GSB entrepreneurial teams.
Board Member
2019 - 2021
O Inc. is an AI and robotics technology company developing disruptive products and services in autonomous mobility, perception, and interaction for AI in human environments, with applications in the home and enterprise for spatial intelligence and contextual understanding.
Founder, Principal
2008 - 2017
ADG is a small team of experienced strategy and design professionals focused on the conception and design of current and next-generation interactive content and applications.
Advisor, Design Consultant
2016 - 2016
Application design and consulting for innovative smartphone-based transcription platform for deaf and hard-of-hearing people.
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