Bloomberg News has hired Business Insider reporter Rebecca Torrence to cover venture capital firms and startup companies.
She will start in January,
Torrence has been covering VCs for Business Insider. She also covered digital health.
Torrence previously covered health care technologies and the businesses innovating at Fierce Healthcare, following a range of issues from cybersecurity and artificial intelligence to telehealth and remote patient monitoring. Previously, she has written about the coronavirus pandemic for Bloomberg News and the Tampa Bay Times.
She graduated from Duke University with a B.S. in neuroscience.
Here’s the announcement from Jillian Ward, managing editor of U.S. technology coverage:
Hi Team:
I’m excited to share that Rebecca Torrence will be joining the Bloomberg Technology team in January as a reporter covering venture capital, startups, and the rapidly evolving landscape around AI and emerging tech.
Rebecca comes to us from Business Insider, where she led coverage of healthcare startups and venture capital and more recently expanded into the broader tech startup ecosystem, regularly scooping fundraises, M&A and key AI developments. She’s broken major stories on companies including Hinge Health, Abridge, OpenAI and Perplexity, finding stories readers care about and presenting them with clarity, urgency and authority.
In this role, Rebecca will help lead our coverage of venture capital, startups, financing trends and the companies shaping the next wave of AI innovation.
This will be a return to Bloomberg News for Rebecca, who made a strong impression as an intern on the health-care team in 2021. Outside of work, she’s an accomplished pianist and is currently training – along with her whole family – for her third half-marathon. Since moving to New York earlier this year, she’s been building community via poker games and trivia nights.
Please join me in welcoming Rebecca to Bloomberg. We’re thrilled to have her talent, energy and sharp reporting instincts on the team. She’ll be based in New York and will officially begin the first week of January, the same day as Natasha Mascarenhas, our previously announced new addition to the VC and startups team.
I’m also delighted to announce that reporter Brody Ford is relocating to Bloomberg’s San Francisco newsroom early next month. Brody’s beat won’t change – he’ll keep up his relentless and insightful coverage of Microsoft, Oracle, enterprise technology and AI, now from the same time zone as most of his companies. He’s excited to be based in his native California after five years in Bloomberg’s New York bureau, where he started off as an intern and rotator before bringing his standout news-breaking skills to the tech team in 2022.
Looking forward to great things ahead in 2026!
