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Bloomberg Beta
States it invests at the early stages in companies that make business work better. Alone among the firms in this directory, it has open sourced a guide to how the fund works and publishes it as an operating manual, on the stated reasoning that transparency about how it thinks is the first step to trust and that it treats its founders as its customers.
Criteria: States it runs a $75 million seed fund and is investing from its fifth fund, the same size and focus as the first four, alongside a $75 million opportunity fund, for $450 million in total under management. The published manual covers check sizes, diligence questions and core beliefs, and the firm states that making its criteria public helps founders decide whether to work with it at all.
What this means for your pitchRead the manual before you write to them. Almost no other firm here hands you its diligence questions in advance, which makes this the cheapest preparation available anywhere in the directory. Arriving without having read it tells them precisely how much homework you do.
Bloomberg BetaTheir operating manualChecked 17 August 2026
From Bloomberg Beta's own site and announcements · checked 26 August 2026 · selective, not comprehensive · verify on the firm's pages
Bloomberg Beta maintains its operating manual as a public GitHub repository, which states the firm manages $450 million across five funds, including four $75 million seed funds focused on the future of work and a $75 million opportunity fund, and is currently investing from its fifth fund. The manual states standard initial checks of $300,000 to $1 million, with smaller Flag checks of $25,000 to $50,000 and multimillion dollar opportunity fund checks for later rounds.
The firm publishes its investment criteria in the same repository: North America based companies that improve how business operates, excluding financial services, with at least one reason to believe the company could be an extraordinary outlier. Listed signals include singular founder achievements, users who spontaneously evangelize the product, exceptional early growth, and unusually strong unit economics.
Bloomberg Beta publishes no dated news feed or blog; its official channel is the GitHub operating manual, whose commit history shows active maintenance through August 2026, most frequently updates to its public portfolio list.