Investor / VCSilicon Valley / Bay Area

Bloomberg Beta

Investor / VC · Corporate VC · San Francisco, CA

Early-stage VC backed solely by Bloomberg LP. $450M AUM across 5 funds. 375+ investments. Focus: future of work, machine intelligence, enterprise software. All profits to Bloomberg Philanthropies. Fund V ($75M) closed Aug 2025. Partners: Roy Bahat, James Cham, Karin Klein, Angela Martin.

Founded

2013

Region

Silicon Valley / Bay Area

Investors

People

Angela Martin
James Cham
Karin Klein
Roy Bahat

About Silicon Valley

Before venture capital and chip startups, the region was seeded by government-funded and corporate research — Stanford Research Institute (SRI) did defense-funded applied research there from the 1940s on, and Xerox PARC, decades later, quietly invented the graphical interface and Ethernet inside a copier company's research lab. Silicon Valley is a string of towns down the peninsula between San Francisco and San Jose, named for the semiconductor firms — Fairchild, Intel — that came out of that same research culture, with Sun Microsystems later carrying the workstation-and-networking era forward before software and then AI layered on top. Stanford anchors it and UC Berkeley sits across the bay. What the region chose to build shifted with each era without ever fully leaving the last one behind — chip design, enterprise software, and frontier AI labs still operate there, often within a few miles of each other.

Region Stats

Total firms 197

VC / investors 63

Companies 117

Schools 17

Known For

Software

Semiconductors