VC Partner Program Terms

1. Eligibility

• Applicants must be a venture capital firm, fund-of-funds, or accelerator with an active AI investment thesis.
• Eligibility is determined at our sole discretion. We consider, without limitation: fund performance and market traction, the maturity and scope of the fund's AI investment strategy, and existing Bee adoption among portfolio companies.
• We reserve the right to modify eligibility criteria or reject any application without providing specific reasons. Submission of an application does not create any right of participation.

2. What the Program provides

• Direct introduction lanes between portfolio founders and the Bee team for technical evaluation, architecture review, and integration support.
• Discounted or credit-funded onboarding for qualifying portfolio companies, on terms set per-engagement.
• Optional co-marketing on case studies and joint announcements, subject to written consent for each instance.
• Visibility into the Bee roadmap under NDA at the granularity appropriate to the partnership.
• Specific benefits are described in the acceptance email and may change as the Program matures. Nothing in this section creates an obligation to deliver any particular benefit.

3. What partners agree to

• Refer portfolio companies to Bee in good faith — no manufactured leads, no pay-to-play introductions in either direction.
• Disclose any material conflicts of interest (e.g. competitive investments) before connecting a portfolio founder to the Bee team.
• Not represent Bee, CUI Labs, or any Bee feature beyond what is published on bee.cuilabs.io or expressly authorised in writing.
• Comply with applicable securities, anti-bribery, sanctions, and data-protection law when participating.

4. Confidentiality

Information shared in connection with the Program (roadmap previews, financials, customer identities) is confidential. Each party will protect the other's confidential information using at least the care it uses for its own and never less than reasonable care. Confidentiality survives termination by 3 years; trade secrets indefinitely.

5. No exclusivity, no fee

The Program does not require either side to exclusivity. There is no application fee, no membership fee, and no revenue-share obligation in either direction. We do not pay referral commissions; the partnership operates on relationship grounds, not bounty grounds.

6. Intellectual property

• Bee, the Bee marks, and the underlying engine are the property of CUI Labs. The Program does not transfer any rights in our marks, technology, or content.
• Co-marketing materials are jointly developed; each party owns its respective contributions and grants the other a limited licence to use the joint material in connection with the Program.

7. Public communications

Neither party will issue press releases or public statements naming the other's portfolio without prior written approval. Listing the partnership in standard marketing materials (website logos, deck slides) is permitted once acceptance is confirmed and not subsequently revoked.

8. Data handling

Personal data collected via the application form (your name, email, phone, fund details, portfolio descriptions) is processed under our Privacy Policy and the Singapore PDPA. We retain applications for 24 months from submission to support follow-up and audit; you can request earlier deletion via the privacy address.

9. Term and termination

• The Program runs on a rolling basis with no fixed term. Either party may terminate participation at any time, for any reason, on 30 days' written notice — earlier where required by law or breach.
• Termination does not affect commitments already made for live engagements (e.g. a credit award already issued to a specific portfolio company); those settle on their own terms.

10. No warranty, no agency

• Participation in the Program does not make either party an agent, partner, joint venturer, or franchisee of the other. Neither party may bind the other.
• Bee is provided to portfolio companies under the standard Terms of Service. No additional warranty is created by the Program.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, neither party will be liable to the other for indirect, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages arising from the Program. Our aggregate liability arising from the Program is capped at five thousand US dollars (USD 5,000).

12. Governing law and venue

• These Terms are governed by the laws of Singapore, without regard to conflicts-of-law principles.
• Disputes that cannot be resolved through good-faith negotiation will be referred to and finally resolved by arbitration administered by the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) under its rules in force at the time. Seat: Singapore. Language: English.

13. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. Material changes will be announced via the changelog and an email to the contact on the application with at least 30 days' notice. Continued participation after the effective date constitutes acceptance.