Roy Bahat
Head @ Bloomberg Beta
San Francisco, United States
Roy Bahat is a seed investor at Bloomberg Beta in San Francisco focused on Software and Information Technology. Roy Bahat (@roybahat) is the head of Bloomberg Beta, a venture fund backed by Bloomberg L.P. that invests in companies that make business work better. Bloomberg Beta has an unusual model for a corporate-backed venture fund. It invests for financial return and strives to work in the same new ways as startups who define the future of work --transparent (with its full operating manual open sourced at http://bloombergbeta.com) and driven by data (with a program to statistically predict who will start companies in the future). Roy has spent time making startups, as a corporate executive, in government, media, and academia -- and is one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business.He was the founding chairman of OUYA, a Kickstarter-backed game console company acquired by Razer. For five years, he ran News Corporation’s IGN Entertainment, where he hired software engineers without looking at their resumes, and was in the office of News Corp.’s chairman. Before that, Roy was in government in the office of New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg and was a short-lived consultant at McKinsey & Co.Today, he is on the faculty at U.C. Berkeley where he teaches about media at the Haas School of Business. He serves on the boards of CodeNow, a nonprofit teaching technology skills to underprivileged students, and the Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit newsroom.Roy graduated from Harvard College, where he ran the student public service nonprofit. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. He shares what he’s learning at http://also.roybahat.com.
- Total investments:
- 68
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 16%
Last updated:
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Industries Roy Bahat invests in
Stages Roy Bahat invests in
Countries Roy Bahat invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 10 (15%)
- Information Technology 8 (12%)
- Internet 5 (7%)
- SaaS 4 (6%)
- Video 4 (6%)
Stage
- Seed 33 (49%)
- Series A 13 (19%)
- Series B 7 (10%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (6%)
- Series C 3 (4%)
Country
- United States 38 (56%)
- Canada 1 (1%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Stedi is a global network for exchanging B2B transactions in a standard format. It provides companies with a free digital mailbox on the Stedi network, giving any company the ability to quickly connect and transact with its trading partners without having to go through painful point-to-point implementations. | $50M / Series C / Mar 24, 2026 | ||
| Twill is a recruitment network that allows top talent to suggest their peers and friends for vacant positions. | $1.4M / Pre-Seed / Dec 10, 2024 | ||
| AtoB is a technology company building payments infrastructure for the transportation industry. AtoB was founded by Harshita Arora, Vignan Velivela, and Tushar Misra and is based in San Francisco, California. | $130M / Series C / Sep 19, 2024 | ||
| The future of human self expression, driven by AI | $1.7M / Pre-Seed / May 07, 2024 | ||
Upwage
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Our mission is to create $1 trillion in new wealth for the 44% of Americans who make less than $16/hr, using the power of big data & AI. | $7.3M / Seed / Jul 01, 2023 | |
| Portrait is an invite-only platform for professional creatives who work across entertainment and media. Combining a trusted network with tools built for the industry, Portrait helps users unlock the power of their own networks to find new projects, collaborators, and funders throughout the lifecycle of creative work. | $1.9M / Pre-Seed / May 01, 2023 | ||
| Eva is the easiest way to send personalized corporate gifts at scale. Never worry about preferences or delivery details again. Just cc Eva in an email or chat on Slack.Eva's machine intelligence matches hip product companies with the unique interests and attributes of the gift recipient. The result is a perfect automated gift from acurated list of vendors. | $8.3M / Series A / Jul 28, 2022 | ||
| Sounding Board offers a full-stack software platform for enterprises to scale coaching initiatives organization-wide, overnight and a high-quality coach network to serve on-demand coaching needs. It offers a modern user experience that adapts to the learning styles of people, a comprehensive set of automation tools for easy administration, and arobust data visualization capability to view the enterprise-wide impact of coaching. Serving several global enterprises in 11 countries with an NPS score of 81. Sounding Board aims to be the first coaching experience layer for enterprises worldwide.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Foster City, California. | $30M / Series B / Dec 01, 2021 | ||
| AtoB is a technology company building payments infrastructure for the transportation industry. AtoB was founded by Harshita Arora, Vignan Velivela, and Tushar Misra and is based in San Francisco, California. | $25M / Series A / Jun 01, 2021 | ||
| Sounding Board offers a full-stack software platform for enterprises to scale coaching initiatives organization-wide, overnight and a high-quality coach network to serve on-demand coaching needs. It offers a modern user experience that adapts to the learning styles of people, a comprehensive set of automation tools for easy administration, and arobust data visualization capability to view the enterprise-wide impact of coaching. Serving several global enterprises in 11 countries with an NPS score of 81. Sounding Board aims to be the first coaching experience layer for enterprises worldwide.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Foster City, California. | $13.1M / Series A / Jan 22, 2021 | ||
| See all 68 investments → | |||
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.
Bloomberg Beta Contacts
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Roy Bahat
Head
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James Cham
Partner
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Karin Klein
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Michael Wellman
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Minn Kim
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What does Roy Bahat invest in?
Roy Bahat invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 68 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 Roy Bahat closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 68 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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