Roy E. Bahat — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Head of Bloomberg Beta since 2013
Lecturer at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business since 2011
Senior Fellow (Nonresident) at The Brookings Institution since 2024
Co-Founder and Chairman of OUYA, Inc. from September 2012 to June 2015
Involved with nonprofits like the Aspen Institute, where he created the Business Roundtable on Organized Labor

Biography

Roy E. Bahat is the Head of Bloomberg Beta, a venture fund established in 2013 by Bloomberg L.P. His work at Bloomberg Beta focuses on investing in technology companies, particularly those in machine intelligence, driven by his interest in improving the future of work.

Bahat also holds academic and research positions, serving as a Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business since 2011, and as a Senior Fellow (Nonresident) at The Brookings Institution since 2024.