Amy T.

Bloomberg Beta is an early stage venture capital firm with $450M under management, capitalized solely by Bloomberg. The fund exists to expand Bloomberg’s horizons by investing in companies built by extraordinary founders that make business work better, with a focus on artificial intelligence. We run our fund in unorthodox ways to build trust with founders: Were a corporate-backed fund that invests to make money. We experiment with the limits of transparency -- instead of a normal website, we open sourced our entire operating manual. We measure success by our founders customer service ratings of us. Bloomberg Beta has an unconventional investing model where anyone on the team can say yes to a deal. The investing partnership has an equal female-to-male ratio. Read our full internal operating manual here: https://github.com/Bloomberg-Beta/Manual

Founded in 2003, LinkedIn connects the worlds professionals to make them more productive and successful. With more than 1 billion members worldwide, including executives from every Fortune 500 company, LinkedIn is the worlds largest professional network. The company has a diversified business model with revenue coming from Talent Solutions, Marketing Solutions, Sales Solutions and Premium Subscriptions products. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, LinkedIn has offices across the globe.

California Crescent Fund is on a mission to support and embolden the most thoughtful, creative, interdisciplinary, diverse, and compassionate student-entrepreneurs driven to change the world for the better – starting with our home-base of Southern California. ‍ Because we believe that providing ambitious dreamers with the tools and encouragement they need to actualize their visions will produce a more delightful, sustainable, and exciting future for us all. ‍ #LongLA to the moon :)