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Bloomberg Beta

Founders Karin Klein

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Total investments 288
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$11M
Portfolio companies 173
Rounds per year 26.18
Lead investments 18
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.39
Exits 28
Key employees 4

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Information Technology
  • Machine Learning
  • SaaS
Summary

Bloomberg Beta appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2013. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. Bloomberg Beta seemed to be an CVC arrangement as part of the organization. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Cyber Security, Analytics. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Flexport, Shield AI, Versive

Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The average startup value when the investment from Bloomberg Beta is 100-500 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Bloomberg Beta works on 16 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is generally included in 13-24 deals every year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 14 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Bloomberg Beta, startups are often financed by First Round Capital, SV Angel, Susa Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Susa Ventures, Ridge Ventures (Formerly known as IDG Ventures USA), Precursor Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sequoia Capital, GV, Y Combinator.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

AtoB

FinTech
Payments
Sustainability
Transportation
$130M19 Sep 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Bounti Labs

$16M12 Sep 2024 San Jose, California, United States

Protege

Analytics
$10M10 Sep 2024 New City, New York, United States

Lambda

Artificial Intelligence
Blockchain
Cloud Computing
Hardware
Information Services
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
$320M15 Feb 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Mechanical Orchard

$24M07 Feb 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Airspace Intelligence

Aerospace
Software
$34M07 Dec 2023 -

Kolena.io

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Quality Assurance
Software
$15M26 Sep 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Yurts Technologies Inc

Software
Web Development
$16M19 Sep 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Upwage

$7M01 Jul 2023 -
News
Infrastructure access platform StrongDM raises $54M

– StrongDM has raised $54m in a series B round led by Tiger Global, with participation from GV, Sequoia Capital, True Ventures, HearstLab, Bloomberg Beta, and Godfrey Sullivan.
– The proceeds will be put toward supporting “all parts” of StrongDM’s go-to-market strategy over the coming months.
– StrongDM’s solution is a tool that manages and audits access to servers, databases, datacenters, and more.
– The Burlingame, California-based company combines authentication, authorization, networking, and observability into one service, delivering infrastructure access controls across legacy and multicloud environments.
– StrongDM was founded by Zalman, Schuyler Brown, and Justin McCarthy in 2015.

LaunchDarkly Scores $200M in Series D

– LaunchDarkly from San Francisco has closed $200m in Series D.
– The financing led by Lead Edge Capital with new investors Top Tier Capital Partners and New York-based global private equity and venture capital firm Insight Venture Partners as well as existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Redpoint, Threshold, Uncork Capital and Bloomberg Beta participating.
– LaunchDarkly serves 4 billion feature flags daily to help software teams build better software, faster.

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Total investments 288
Average round size 11M
Rounds per year 26.18
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 18
Follow on index 0.39
Exits 28
Group Appearance index 0.96

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

AtoB

FinTech
Payments
Sustainability
Transportation
$130M19 Sep 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Bounti Labs

$16M12 Sep 2024 San Jose, California, United States

Protege

Analytics
$10M10 Sep 2024 New City, New York, United States

Lambda

Artificial Intelligence
Blockchain
Cloud Computing
Hardware
Information Services
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
$320M15 Feb 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Mechanical Orchard

$24M07 Feb 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Airspace Intelligence

Aerospace
Software
$34M07 Dec 2023 -

Kolena.io

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Quality Assurance
Software
$15M26 Sep 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Yurts Technologies Inc

Software
Web Development
$16M19 Sep 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Upwage

$7M01 Jul 2023 -
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