Michael Berolzheimer

Michael Berolzheimer is Founder and Managing Partner at Bee Partners. Michael has partnered with Founders on 100+ pre-seed investments via funds totaling over $150M and has held over a dozen board roles supporting Founders going from zero-to-one. He has amassed nearly two decades of experience at the earliest stages of deep tech venture creation.

After assessing tens of thousands of ideas and meeting with thousands of founders, Michael constructed Bee Partners’ Frontier Curve of Innovation™ framework to identify the most promising deals. Michael contributes feature and product support to Bee Partners’ own AI applications. In his ‘previous life’, Michael began his career on Wall Street, working for DLJ and Harvest Partners. Side hustles include teaching his kids how to vibe code and skiing.
His curiosity knows no bounds, and he thrives in the uncertainty that persists in inception-stage venture investing. You’ll never meet a more optimistic tech geek.

A proud alum and continuing supporter of UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, Michael graduated with honors from Vanderbilt University with dual undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Economics. He currently serves on the boards of Knowde, Embroker, Voltaiq and Sourcetable, as well as the College of Connected Computing Dean’s Advisory Council for Vanderbilt University. Connect with Michael on LinkedIn.