James Cham
Partner @ Bloomberg Beta
San Francisco, United States
James Cham is a seed investor at Bloomberg Beta in San Francisco focused on Software and SaaS. James Cham is the Partner at Bloomberg Beta. He attended MIT Sloan School of Management and Harvard University. James Cham, a Vice President in the Menlo Park office, focuses on internet and software investments. 2005, James joined BVP from Boston Consulting Group. He had previously led teams that designed award-winning web applications at ZEFER (now part of NEC). James started his career at Accenture as a technology consultant, where he built enterprise applications for clients in the financial, defense, and retail industries. James received his MBA from MIT's Sloan School, where he was a Siebel Scholar. He earned his bachelor's degree in computer science from Harvard University.
- Total investments:
- 54
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 17%
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 12 (22%)
- SaaS 9 (17%)
- Analytics 8 (15%)
- Artificial Intelligence 8 (15%)
- Big Data 6 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 20 (37%)
- Series A 11 (20%)
- Series B 6 (11%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (6%)
- Series D 3 (6%)
Investments
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| Poly is a web tool for generating design assets with AI, including textures, graphics, icons, sprites, and more. With a simple text prompt, you get unlimited customizable, 4K UHD, and commercially-licensed creative assets that match your color and style within seconds. | $8M / Seed / Nov 19, 2025 | ||
| Defakto secures the next era of automation with the only complete Non-Human IAM platform, purpose-built for end-to-end NHI lifecycle management. By eliminating static secrets and overprivileged accounts, Defakto helps enterprises reduce breach risk, simplify compliance, and scale automation with confidence. Trusted by Global 2000 companies, Defaktowas founded by leaders in large-scale identity deployments. The platform secures every automated interaction across workloads, pipelines, multi-cloud environments, and AI agents. | $30.8M / Series B / Oct 21, 2025 | ||
| AppZen is an artificial intelligence platform for modern finance teams, helping them to reduce spending, comply with policy, and streamline processes. It automates manual processes, uncovers problems, and optimizes decision-making for enterprises around the globe, including one-fourth of the Fortune 500. The company focuses on areas such as expensereport auditing, accounts payable (AP) automation, and compliance monitoring to help finance teams reduce manual work, avoid errors, and manage risk.The platform combines patented deep learning, computer vision, and semantic analysis with intelligence from thousands of online data sources to understand financial transactions in a business context and make decisions before those transactions happen. | $180M / Series D / Sep 22, 2025 | ||
| Stampli is the most powerful AP Automation available, giving AP full control of the invoice lifecycle. By centering communications on top of the invoice issues are quickly resolved and approvals happen 5x faster. Stampli’s AI learns an organizations' unique patterns to simplify GL-coding, automate approval notifications, and identify duplicateinvoices. Stampli fits into any existing P2P process, with support for both PO and non-PO purchases. Stampli makes it effortless to automate AP. | $61M / Series D / Oct 03, 2023 | ||
| Founded in 2021 by Champ Bennett and Joseph Jorgensen, Capsule is designed to help businesses meet the growing demand for video. Built with CapsuleScript, a first-of-its-kind markup language for video that automates video post-production and makes desktop-quality video possible from any device with a browser, Capsule makes it easy to crowdsource,edit and distribute video. Try it at Capsule.video.Capsule has raised funding from top investors in the AI and creative tools space, including Array Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Swift Ventures, Clark Valberg (Founder of InVision), Amjad Masad (CEO, Replit), Arash Ferdowsi (CTO, Dropbox), Kyle Parrish (Head of Sales, Figma), Mike Mignano (ex-Head of Audio & Video, Spotify), Roy Raanani (Co-Founder, Chorus.ai) and Sahil Lavingia (Founder, Gumroad). | $5.7M / Seed / Feb 14, 2023 | ||
| Chroma DB is an open-source, AI-native embedding vector database that aims to simplify the process of creating LLM applications powered by natural language processing by making knowledge, facts, and skills pluggable for machine learning models at the scale of LLMs – as well as avoiding hallucinations. | $2.3M / Pre-Seed / May 01, 2022 | ||
| LaunchDarkly isn’t just a leader in feature management — it’s the first scalable feature management platform. Feature management allows development teams to innovate faster by fundamentally transforming how software is delivered to customers. With the ability to gradually release new software features to any segment of users on any platform, DevOpsteams can standardize safe releases at scale, accelerate their journey to the cloud and collaborate more effectively with business teams. Today, LaunchDarkly deploys peaks of 20 trillion feature flags each day, and that number continues to grow. Founded in 2014 in Oakland, California by Edith Harbaugh and John Kodumal, LaunchDarkly has been named on the Forbes Cloud 100 list, InfoWorld’s 2021 Technology of the Year list, and the Enterprise Tech 30 list. | $200M / Series D / Aug 10, 2021 | ||
| NoMad Data develops a data management platform that provides differentiated data to help businesses make better decisions. It connects businesses to a world of data for better decision making, marketing, storytelling, customer visibility, and more. The company was founded in 2020 and based in New York. | $1.6M / Seed / Jun 07, 2021 | ||
| Founded in 2021 by Champ Bennett and Joseph Jorgensen, Capsule is designed to help businesses meet the growing demand for video. Built with CapsuleScript, a first-of-its-kind markup language for video that automates video post-production and makes desktop-quality video possible from any device with a browser, Capsule makes it easy to crowdsource,edit and distribute video. Try it at Capsule.video.Capsule has raised funding from top investors in the AI and creative tools space, including Array Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Swift Ventures, Clark Valberg (Founder of InVision), Amjad Masad (CEO, Replit), Arash Ferdowsi (CTO, Dropbox), Kyle Parrish (Head of Sales, Figma), Mike Mignano (ex-Head of Audio & Video, Spotify), Roy Raanani (Co-Founder, Chorus.ai) and Sahil Lavingia (Founder, Gumroad). | $2M / Pre-Seed / Jan 12, 2021 | ||
| AI Powered Contract Lifecycle Management Software for the Enterprise | $4M / Seed / Dec 21, 2020 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Bloomberg Beta
Bloomberg Beta is an early-stage venture capital firm with $450M under management, capitalized solely by Bloomberg. The fund exists to expand Bloomberg’s horizons by investing in companies built by extraordinary founders that make business work better, with a focus on machine intelligence.
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What does James Cham invest in?
James Cham invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 54 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for James Cham closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 54 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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