Building a Startup in Industrial Automation

​Kira and Ale from Bee Partners, will be hosting an interactive conversation about how to build products and startups in the industrial automation space. We'll use Machine to Machine Learning (M2ML) as a framework (context below) to discuss starting a company, paths to market, industry examples, areas of opportunity, and trends driving this evolution.

​Topic: While industry 4.0 has traditionally been focused on manufacturing, the M2ML value proposition is extensible to a much wider scope of industries that encompass the digitization of physical world well beyond the factory setting. M2ML uses machines to do jobs that are orders of magnitude better, or faster, than the status quo (increasingly taking humans out of the loop).

​About Kira & Ale: Kira has spent the past six years investing and growing startups with a focus on go-to-market and minimum viable product as a product manager in San Francisco and South America. She is a problem solver with a focus on disruptive innovation in advanced technologies impacting climate change, food security, machine to machine learning, and machine to human interaction. Kira co-organizes various female VC communities between Colorado and San Francisco and opened the Denver-based office for Bee Partners. 

​Ale is an Associate at Bee Partners. She’s passionate about companies that have large-scale impact embedded in their technologies and business models. Her work spans across Bee’s Vectors (human-machine, machine-to-machine, and biological machines) and she takes a human centered approach to venture capital investing. Ale has an MBA from UC Berkeley, and previously spent six years in Investment and Business Development roles at JP Morgan and Falcom Asset Management.