Betaworks

Betaworks is a start-up platform founded in New York. We invest, incubate, and build from scratch in our areas of thematic interest. We also run a IRL Club for founders and funders paired with a virtual community online. Since 2008 we have built products from the ground up like Giphy, Dots, Bitly and Tweetdeck, and invested in many amazing companies including Venmo, Superplastic, Anchor, Gimlet, Rec Room and Hugging Face. We believe fiercely that human potential can be realized through technology so long as we place what is human at the core of what we build. We believe we can build better, and throughout the Betaworks ecosystem that is what we aspire to do, day in and day out. And we do believe that “betas” work. ‍ In 2016, we launched Betaworks Camp, a thematic residency and investment program for early-stage companies. Camp allows us to immerse ourselves in emerging tech categories and work closely with the startups in each cohort. Our current theme is “Fix The Internet”, and encompasses privacy technology, developing a healthier media ecosystem, and consumer products whose business model isn’t predicated on harvesting our data or our attention. ‍ For the last ten years we have invested in early stage start-ups related to areas we are building in. Previous investments include: Tumblr, Kickstarter, Medium and Venmo. We continue to do so through our seed and series A $50m fund.