Karin Klein is the co-founder and partner of the Venture fund, Bloomberg Beta, a Bloomberg LP firm. She has been featured in Techweek 100, Silicon Alley 100, and New York Business Journal's top "women of influence".

Background

Karin Klein was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois to a family she considers to be kind and caring.

With the help of her sister, they founded a children's education business as a way to fund their college and business education experience.

She has stated that the early experience of building a business with her sister taught her the importance of recruitment and to manage a talented team.

Education

She schooled with a B.A. from Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. She was Summa cum laude and Phi betta kappa with a Master of Business Administration and Bachelor of Science from the The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Career

Karin is recognized as one of the top Venture capitalists in the world and she is a trusted mentor and consultant to dozens of start-ups.

Karin worked with the MC Group and Knowledge Universe, education and media focused investment funds.

For ten years (2000-2010) karin worked various positions including Vice President for SoftBank Corp. where she oversaw the seed round for BuzzFeed and the exits for The Huffington Post and Associated content.

She is a mentor and consultant to organizations like Techstars and New York City Economic Development Corporation.

She serves on the board of Crunchies and L'Oreal's Women in Digital.

Bloomberg LP

Karin led new initiatives for Bloomberg LP, where she and her team built new businesses, developed strategy and created partnerships.

Bloomberg Beta

Bloomberg Beta is a seed stage venture capital fund backed by Bloomberg LP.

Their investments focuses on technology companies that improve overall workflow, allowing companies to be more productive and content at work.

The focus is on Machine intelligence, data, technology platforms, media distribution, content discovery, networks & communities, human-computer interaction, and radically new organizational models.