Betawork Ventures

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.
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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.
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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.

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‍We have built products for the social web since 2007. Recent successes include GIPHY, the search engine for gifs; and Dots, the beautiful mobile gaming franchise. In 2018, we launched Betaworks Studios, an IRL social club and virtual community for founders and funders in the NY tech space and beyond.
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Some of our earlier products included Bitly, Chartbeat, and Tweetdeck, the latter of which was sold to Twitter. In 2012, we also acquired and relaunched Digg and Instapaper, which was sold to Pinterest in 2016.