Head, Bloomberg Beta
Roy Bahat is the head of Bloomberg Beta, the early-stage venture firm backed by Bloomberg that was the first venture fund to focus on investing in the future of work and in artificial intelligence. He is also a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he writes about AI.
Bahat chairs the Aspen Business Roundtable on Organized Labor, convening “labor open” business leaders to explore new ways of relating to organized labor and worker power. Following work he did with New America to understand the long-term effect of technology on work in America, Roy was a commissioner on the California Governor’s Future of Work Commission. He also created #thisisnotadvice, a community-edited guide on how to work, and hosts the [Going to Work] conference.
Bahat organized the “Comeback Cities” tours, where he led groups of venture capitalists and members of Congress to cities around America to learn about startups outside the coasts. With Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS) and Schmidt Futures, Roy organized First Principles, a community for people in technology to learn how to give, philanthropically and politically.
Bahat was named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business, and has experience as a startup founder, media executive, lecturer at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, and board member at or advisor to the Abundance Network, Stanford PACS, the Economic Security Project, and the Center for Investigative Reporting.