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betaworks

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betaworks believes in the power of the real-time social web. We believe that the popularity of the real-time and social aspects of the web represent a radical shift in how people use and interact with the Internet. The future is about dynamic streams of information, not static pages. It’s about push, not pull; it’s about enabling publishing tools and data; and it’s about the ways we touch, experience and interact with the Internet and each other. With this as our focus, we build and invest in great companies.

We represent a new way to grow companies. Because we are not a fund, we can invest more flexibly in ideas. We build and work closely with companies that we view as core to our vision, including bitly, Chartbeat and SocialFlow.

betaworks also makes seed-stage investments in the ecosystem of the realtime web. To us, seed investing means “first money in.” Our typical investment size is $150,000-200,000. We sometimes invest as part of a syndicate of angels and early stage VCs.

Our requirements from an investment perspective are simple, though narrow. Investments must be early stage, heavily tech focused, and have a working (public or private) prototype. We are a powerpoint-free zone.

The company is different than a traditional venture capital firm in that it operates as a stock company with shareholders and not a firm with limited partners.

betaworks was the original investor in Summize and TweetDeck. Both companies were acquired by Twitter. (The company is now a shareholder in Twitter.)

The company often co-invests with NYC-based investors including Union Square Ventures and RRE Ventures as well as Silicon Valley-based SV Angels and Boston-based Spark Capital.

Milestones

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  betaworks added Jason Morrow as Product Designer. (5/10/00)
  Posted 5/7/12 at 6:01am
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  betaworks added Mike Buckley as Board Member, Investor. (6/1/11)
  Posted 8/30/11 at 8:30am
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  betaworks added Nina Khosla as Intern.
  Posted 8/27/11 at 6:22pm
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  betaworks added Christine Herron as Board.
  Posted 8/18/11 at 4:14pm
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  betaworks added Antonia Abraham as Director of Finance & Operations. (6/1/10)
  Posted 5/12/11 at 3:18pm
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  betaworks added Joshua Stylman as Investor.
  Posted 3/20/11 at 7:59pm
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  betaworks added James D Robinson as Board of Directors.
  Posted 10/27/10 at 12:18pm
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  betaworks added Scott Heiferman as Investor.
  Posted 5/16/10 at 12:23pm
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  betaworks added Peter Hershberg as Investor.
  Posted 4/2/10 at 5:41am
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  betaworks added Eric Martineau as Director.
  Posted 3/19/10 at 12:25pm
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  betaworks added Stuart Ellman as Director.
  Posted 3/19/10 at 12:25pm
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  betaworks added Tony Haile as General Manager.
  Posted 9/24/09 at 11:30am
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  betaworks added Ken Lerer as Chairman.
  Posted 6/10/09 at 2:44pm
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  betaworks added Frank Mashraqi as Advisor.
  Posted 6/10/09 at 1:40pm
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  betaworks added Joshua Auerbach as Senior Vice President.
  Posted 6/10/09 at 1:40pm
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  betaworks added Josh Abramson as Advisor.
  Posted 6/10/09 at 1:40pm

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1. Pseudonymous Mobile Messaging App Vibe Acquired By Betaworks (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. ‘Web Clipping 2.0′ Startup Clipboard Backed By Andreessen Horowitz, Index, CrunchFund, Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. Tablet Education Startup ShowMe Raises $800,000 From Lerer Ventures, SV Angel, And Betaworks (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. Stealth Social Mobile Startup just.me Raises $600K From Google Ventures, SV Angel And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
6. Embedly Raises Another $450K, Launches One API To Rule All Embeds (techcrunch.com) [edit]
7. Spark, Lightbank And Yuri Milner Get In On OnSwipe’s $5M ‘Series Awesome’ (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. Social Jukebox exfm Raises $750,000 For Its Music Discovery And Sharing Extension (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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10. Bloom.io Raises Funding for Playful Data Visualization (networkeffect.allthingsd.com) [edit]
11. Kickstarter Fesses Up: The Crowd-Sourced Funding Startup Has Funding Too (mediamemo.allthingsd.com) [edit]
12. OnSwipe Raises $1M for Insanely Simple Tablet Publishing Platform (jasonlbaptiste.com) [edit]
13. Gaming Site OMGPOP Raises $10.1 Million, Plans Acquisitions (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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15. Yieldbot CEO Mendez Talks About Funding And Future For Publisher-Side Platform (adexchanger.com) [edit]
16. Bit.ly Raises $10 Million Series B, Still Growing Like Crazy (technews-vn.blogspot.com) []
17. Jaiku Founder Raises Seed Funding For New Venture, Pingpin, Wastes My Time (techcrunch.com) [edit]
18. “Stealth” Advertising Startup AK Networks Raises $8 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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21. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
22. NYC Startup Fluidinfo Raises $800K From Hotshot Investors (businessinsider.com) [edit]
23. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
24. Extension Entertainment Inc. Launches ExtensionFM: A Chrome Extension That Turns The Entire Web Into Your Personal Music Library (blog.extension.fm) [edit]
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27. Gdgt Raises New Financing with New Concept (blogs.wsj.com) [edit]
28. SocialFlow Announces Funding From betaworks and Dan Porter (blog.socialflow.com) [edit]
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31. Dealipedia (dealipedia.com) [edit]
32. Hot Potato Raises $1.42 For Event Social Networking (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
33. Superfeedr Gets Funding From Mark Cuban And Betaworks (paidcontent.org) [edit]
34. YC-Funded DailyBooth Raises $1 Million From Sequoia, Kevin Rose, Ron Conway Et Al. (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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36. ChallengePost launches problem-solving site with Wozniak, Betaworks onboard (venturebeat.com) [edit]
37. UserVoice raises $800K for customer feedback systems (venturebeat.com) [edit]
38. Twitter Me This: TweetDeck Secures Angel Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
39. StockTwits Raises $800K For Twitter-Fueled Stock Community (alleyinsider.com) [edit]
40. Hyper-Local News Service Outside.In Grows (bits.blogs.nytimes.com) [edit]
41. Tipjoy Raises $1 Million For Its Simple Micropayment Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
42. StockTwits.com Closes Angel Funding (alleyinsider.com) [edit]
43. Iminlikewithyou Gets VC Cash For New Game (gigaom.com) [edit]
44. Local Content Aggregator Outside.in Gets $3 Million Third Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
45. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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47. Lotame Received $10 Million for Social Media Targeting - VentureCapitalUpdate.com (venturecapitalupdate.com) [edit]
48. Reed Hundt Invests in Facebook Ad-Platform Lookery (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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50. Cap Funding Report []
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53. Investors listed on company site (betaworks.com) [edit]
Alley Insider (alleyinsider.com) [edit]
TC (techcrunch.com) [edit]
Betaworks Acquires And Relaunches Hownow, The Semi-Anonymous Hyperlocal Social Network iPhone App (techcrunch.com) [edit]