Bloomberg Beta, now six years old, closes its third $75 million fund

Bloomberg Beta, a San Francisco-based outfit that uses Bloomberg LP's money to make bets on startups, has closed its third fund with $75 million, according to Roy Bahat, who'd previously run the online media company IGN and who operates the fund as an equal partnership with Karin Klein and James Cham. Bahat stressed that the idea is to continue on the firm's current path, which is to write checks of between $500,000 to $1 million initially; to loosely target ownership of around 10% in the startups it backs; and to fund companies that are focused on the future of work, which has long been an area of interest for Bahat and his colleagues.