I’m Karin Klein, a founding partner of Bloomberg Beta, an early-stage venture capital firm.

Since its founding in 2013, Bloomberg Beta was the first venture capital firm to focus on the future of work and artificial intelligence. We treat founders as our customers, and strive to work in the same new ways as startups — transparent, data-driven, and highly dependent on trust.

For more than twenty years, I’ve had the pleasure to work with founders with a focus on enterprise software, security, media and communications, among other sectors. Prior to launching Bloomberg Beta, I led new initiatives at Bloomberg and led Softbank’s venture fund team, which realized the most successful exits in Silicon Alley (including BuzzFeed, Buddy Media, The Huffington Post, and Associated Content). Before that, I was co-founder and president of an educational training business for children.

It’s been my privilege to back founders at BankSight (acquired by Bottomline Technologies), Black Crow AI, Buddy Media (acquired by Salesforce), Buzzfeed, Campus, Capsule, Datalogue (acquired by Nike), Donut, Huffington Post (acquired by Verizon), Lina, MelodyArc, meetup (acquired by WeWork), Pathgather (acquired by Degreed), Site59 (acquired by Travelocity), Sounding Board, Stel Life, Tembo, Wrangle, CyberGRX, Enveil, Flashpoint, StrongDM, Virgil Security, and many more.

I have an M.B.A. from The Wharton School and am a summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of both the Annenberg School of Communications and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Currently, I serve on the board of directors for Campus (Bloomberg Beta portfolio company), Paramount Group (NYSE: PGRE) and Regency Centers (NASDAQ: REG, S&P 500). I was previously on the board of Harvey Mudd College and L’Oreal’s Women in Digital. I volunteer as a mentor with Techstars, the University of Toronto’s Creative Destruction Lab, and the New York City Economic Development Corporation.