Beeler Street Ventures
College friends, with diverse backgrounds, investing together in great companies twenty years later.
What we believe
We believe in investing in great founders. Great founders build great teams.
Great teams build great products. Great products deliver solutions to hard problems, from space to biosciences, from healthcare to climate.
Our portfolio
Who we are
Some experiences are transformational. We met freshman year of college, and became a close-knit group of friends. Each partner went his own direction, cultivating skills in their area(s) of interest. Years later we realized that together we had a broad knowledge base, and wanted to use these skills to for investing.
Alex is from a small town in Maine. After various corporate stints in the US, he moved to Southeast Asia, founding and helping to run several business. He is currently helping improve the Indonesian Healthcare space at www.pbmcgroup.com. His expertise is in growth, operations, and finance, and has spent time working on early stage digital transformation projects. Ask him about the startup space in Asia. Alex and his family live in Bali, and he plays ultimate frisbee competitively when he isn't working or investing.
Ajay was born in the USA, but his time growing up was split across cities in India and the US east coast. He has also lived and worked in Europe. With degrees in computer science, biology and economics, he nerds out on technologies that span across disciplines. He enjoys building products and teams, and has held engineering and product roles at Microsoft, Google and Fitbit leading early and late stage products in spaces spanning search, ads, enterprise & productivity software, developer tools, browser technology, telecom and health and fitness. Ajay, his wife and sons currently live in NJ where he is an avid runner, cyclist, and amateur pilot.
Azim was born and raised in the Midwest and holds degrees in psychology and human-computer interaction. He is passionate about using design thinking to solve complex problems with simple, elegant, and engaging experiences. After spending his early career at design agencies and big tech in Silicon Valley, he settled into a user experience (UX) leadership role at Amazon, leading creative vision, ideation, strategy, and execution. Azim and his family live in Seattle and are often found outdoors enjoying the many hiking trails and ski runs.
Born in NY and raised in Queens, David currently resides in San Francisco. He has spent over 10 years devising, creating, deploying, and maintaining software services at Nvidia and has deep knowledge of the semiconductor industry. Any niche interest of yours, from NBA salary cap minutiae to the fall of the Roman empire, is something he’d love to learn about; finding particular satisfaction solving or viewing other issues utilizing that knowledge. Current hobbies include golf, woodworking and general do-it-yourself projects
Kanna is a Canadian turned American, and grew up in both the Midwest and East coast. With a PhD in Chemistry from UC Berkeley, he is an experienced chemical biologist and protein biochemist with a strong interest in using biological principles to develop new technologies for biomarker discovery, drug development, and translational sciences. Kanna believes in the broad impact of early disease diagnostics, and has contributed towards this mission through roles at Google, Verily, and Freenome. He currently lives in San Francisco, where he enjoys cycling, hiking, and traveling abroad.
Zhi is a product of multiple cultures and backgrounds; born in China, raised in the USA, having worked and lived overseas. He is a wannabe polymath who is wiling and able to dive wholeheartedly into any number of hobbies and areas of study. A 15+ year veteran at Google, having worked across ads, YouTube, and Android, Zhi has seen a number of seismic shifts in technology, especially the power of the Internet as both a force for good as well as evil. He currently lives in Austin, TX with his wife, son, and two cats, ever vigilant for the next great taco stand.
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We believe anyone can learn skills, but honesty and integrity are the foundations of startup (and perhaps life) success. That said, we are not yet thematic investors, nor do we have a clear thesis along which lines we invest in.
We like businesses focused in technology and biotech.
We do not like marketing and retail focused businesses.
We prefer smaller companies.
We do not like wasting anyone's time; we usually require 1 founder Q&A and will complete a standard due diligence process. Our investment timeline is usually 1 month, but can be shorter.
Our normal ticket size is 20,000 USD.
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