Beekeeper Secures $5 Million in Financing

The seed round was led by FYRFLY Venture Partners with additional investment by b-to-v Partners, Polytech Ecosystem Ventures, and several highly regarded angel investors including Ariel Luedi and Niklas Ostberg. Beekeeper will use the new financing to accelerate growth for the company’s employee communications platform among retail, hospitality and manufacturing leaders. Luedi and FYRFLY Venture Partners’ General Partner and Co-Founder, Philipp Stauffer, have joined Beekeeper’s board of directors, which also includes Beekeeper CEO, Cristian Grossmann, and Beekeeper CTO, Flavio Pfaffhauser.

Beekeeper transforms employee communication and engagement with a mobile-first solution designed specifically for service and blue-collar employees who work shifts, don’t sit at desks, and are distant from corporate management – both in mindset and location. The company’s mobile employee communications platform fosters meaningful, two-way communication and collaboration with peers, managers and Human Resources (HR) leaders, including feedback and survey tools, while providing enterprise-grade scalability, security, and analytics. Beekeeper currently has 50 enterprise clients with end users in more than 100 countries on its platform.  

“Beekeeper connects unconnected workers to their employers in ways that are relevant, personal, and engaging,” said Grossmann. “Unlike the dozens of enterprise messaging companies who are trying to increase the productivity of desktop workers and teams, we are helping companies increase meaningful engagement for the 70% of the global workforce who don’t sit at desks all day. The results are immediate, measurable, and powerful as companies using Beekeeper rapidly boost efficiency and reduce costs and churn.”

“Beekeeper is transforming employee communication and engagement for non-connected workers,” said FYRFLY Venture Partners’ Philipp Stauffer. “Service and blue-collar industries such as retail, hospitality and manufacturing can easily see 60 – 100% of their employees turn over within a year. Beekeeper is taking on a widespread, costly problem and is positioned to dominate with a strong executive team, world-class and international client base, and the vision to help companies reach and engage all workers as employees that matter. Further, Beekeeper is core to our investment thesis of ‘data & intelligence’ as the company deploys machine learning and AI to solve completely new and exciting use cases in enterprise communications.”

(Press release)