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Seed-stage venture firm that also builds and incubates consumer internet and software products

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About Betaworks

Betaworks is a product-focused, seed-stage venture capital fund that both invests in and builds companies. It has been active since 2008. Its current focus areas are web3, crypto media, language and vision AI, applied machine learning and tools for thinking.

What Betaworks offers

  • Company building — has created products from scratch, including Giphy, Dots, Bitly and Tweetdeck.
  • Seed investing — has backed early-stage startups such as Venmo, Anchor, Gimlet, Rec Room and Hugging Face.
  • Betaworks Camp — a themed residency and investment programme launched in 2016; each cohort spends three months in residence working on product, platform strategy, data science, branding and fundraising.
  • Betaworks Studios — a social club and online community for founders and funders in the New York tech scene, started in 2018.

Who it works with

Betaworks works with early-stage founders in frontier technology areas. Past Camp themes have included audio, computer vision, synthetic media and bots.

Key facts

  • Founded: 2008
  • Camp launched: 2016
  • Studios launched: 2018
  • Focus: web3, crypto media, NLP and computer vision, applied machine learning

Profile written by TrustList from the business's own published information, Oct 2026.

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