Tim Smith

Venture Partner

Bee Partners · San Francisco Bay Area

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Partner

Bee Partners. · San Francisco Bay Area

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.

Guest Lecturer

University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business · San Francisco Bay Area

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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

Skydeck | Berkeley · Berkeley, CA

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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.

Board Member

RBC Signals · Seattle, WA

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RBC Signals is a leading provider of global satellite connectivity and data services, offering a cost-effective, flexible, and reliable dynamic spectrum leasing and Ground Station as a Service (GSaaS) platform.

Board Member

Sound Credit · Memphis, Tennessee, United States

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.

Board Member

WARP · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

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.

Advisor / Investor

AxleHire · San Francisco Bay Area

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.

Guest Lecturer

Stanford University Graduate School of Business · Stanford, California, United States

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

O Inc. (AI & Robotics) · San Francisco Bay Area

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

applied.design · Marin County, California

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.