Betaworks

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 ‍ 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

Betalab is an investment program catalyzing startups around Fixing The Internet.

Acquired by Facebook in 2020, GIPHY serves GIFs to 150+ million daily active users

With 100M+ installs, Dots was acquired by Take-Two in 2020.

Social sharing app Squad was acquired by Twitter in 2020.

Recroom  now has over 1m monthly active VR users

Huggingfaces Transformers has garnered over 42,000 stars on Github

Podcasting service Anchor & podcaster Gimlet acquired by Spotify the same day.

‍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 ‍ 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

Camp combines Betaworks’ building and investing experience into thematic investment and in-residence programs for startups in frontier technology Camp themes reflect the areas on which we are most focused and evolve along with our investment theses ‍ Each camp consists of three months “in-residence” at Betaworks to help early stage companies with product development, platform strategy, data science, branding, and fundraising Entrepreneurs have access to the Betaworks team, its network and to a carefully curated group of industry leaders to assist with both general company-building needs and with topics specific to each theme Each camp company receives pre-seed funding of $250k ‍ Past camp themes have included fix the internet, live, audio, computer vision, synthetic media, and botcamp More details on the Camp page