Bloomberg hires Chapman, Huet for VC team

Brad Stone, global head of Bloomberg’s tech coverage, sent out the following staff hire announcement on Monday:

Dear Global Tech,

I am excited to announce two new hires to Bloomberg Global Tech and our newly minted venture capital group: Lizette Chapman and Ellen Huet.

Lizette joins us from the Wall Street Journal, where she wrote about the intersection of venture capital and innovation for Dow Jones VentureWire. Her recent stories include a piece on the venture-backed, robot-infused carnival Two Bit Circus, co-created by the son of Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, and a piece on a fairly breathtaking $81 million investment round led by Goldman Sachs in the online consignment store ThredUp Inc. – proving there is no such thing as thrift in the profligate world of venture capital. Lizette will be trading in her stippled portrait for a Bloomberg badge in mid-November.

Ellen joins us from Forbes, where she has worked for most of the last two years impressing colleagues and rivals alike with her versatile coverage of Silicon Valley. Her magazine feature “World War Uber” in September handily summed up the ride-sharing company’s considerable global challenges while her piece over the summer, “What Happens to a Startup When a Cofounder Dies” took an in-depth and poignant look at how a new company responded and recovered when it was beset by calamity. Before joining Forbes, she spent two and a half years as a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle. Ellen will join our team by the end of November to focus on the vibrant world of tech startups.