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Websitebetaworks.com
Blogblog.betaworks.com
Twitter@betaworks
CategoryOther
Phone646.839.8575
Emailinfo@betaworks.com
Employees10
Founded1/07
DescriptionBusiness Accelerator

Offices

betaworks
416 W 13th Suite 203
New York, NY, 10014
USA

People

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CFO
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Former People

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System Architect
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Acquisitions

Total$500k
Instapaper, 4/13
Digg, 7/12 $500k
Vibe, 2/12

Investments

SocialFlow 4/13
Grand St. 4/13
Namo Media 3/13
Svbtle 1/13
Nitrogram 11/12
Picturelife 11/12
Pickie 10/12
RebelMouse 10/12
Summly 10/12
Seesaw 9/12
LayerVault 8/12
Bondsy 7/12
Bloglovin 6/12
CasaHop 6/12
Moped 6/12
Checkthis 6/12
Bloglovin 6/12
Couple 5/12
Branch 3/12
Pinwheel 2/12
Highlight 2/12
IFTTT 1/12
Editorially 1/12
Fancy Hands 11/11
Clipboard 11/11
Piictu 9/11
Rap Genius 9/11
ShowMe 8/11
ChallengePost 8/11
just.me 7/11
Lascaux Co. 7/11
Veri 7/11
Embedly 6/11
Livestar 6/11
OnSwipe 6/11
Punch! 6/11
Extension Entertainment 4/11
SocialFlow 4/11
Everlane 4/11
Bloom Studio 3/11
Kickstarter 3/11
OnSwipe 1/11
OMGPOP 1/11
GroupMe 1/11
Yieldbot 12/10
Path 11/10
bitly 10/10
Pingpin 9/10
AdKeeper 9/10
Ditto 9/10
Keep Holdings 9/10
GroupMe 8/10
Embedly 8/10
Ze Frank Games 7/10
Star.me 6/10
Open Places 6/10
Fluidinfo 5/10
TweetDeck 5/10
Extension Entertainment 5/10
Venmo 5/10
UberMedia 4/10
gdgt 4/10
SocialFlow 3/10
bitly 2/10
Backupify 2/10
Outside.in 12/09
Hot Potato 11/09
Superfeedr 11/09
DailyBooth 10/09
gdgt 7/09
ChallengePost 6/09
UserVoice 5/09
TweetDeck 1/09
StockTwits 12/08
Outside.in 12/08
Tipjoy 9/08
StockTwits 9/08
OMGPOP 6/08
Outside.in 5/08
Covestor 4/08
Someecards 4/08
Mob.ly 3/08
Songkick 3/08
Lotame 2/08
Lookery 2/08
bitly 1/08
Snaptalent 1/08
ideeli 12/07
Summize 6/07

Funding

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betaworks

Founded in 2008, betaworks is a company of builders. A tightly linked network of ideas, people, capital, products and data brought together in imaginative ways to build out a more connected world. At first glance we seem to do many things. But first and foremost, we’re builders, seeking to create a more sustainable innovation model. The more we build, the more we learn, the more we get ideas for peripheral things, all related, connected – in a loosely coupled network of products and companies.

betaworks is structured as a company– a single company that owns larger pieces of the things it has built and smaller pieces of the things it has invested in. It operates as a network: a tightly linked network of ideas, people, capital, and data united to build out a more inspired and useful connected world. betaworks makes seed-stage investments in this ecosystem. To us, seed investing means “first money in.” Our typical investment size is $150,000-200,000. We always 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.

We build and work closely with companies that we view as core to our vision, examples include: Summize/Twitter Search, bitly, TweetDeck, Chartbeat. And more recently, Digg, Dots, Giphy](www.Giphy.com) and Instapaper, which betaworks acquired in April of 2013. We attract the kind of people who could start their own company, but they don’t necessarily want to run a company. They’d rather be the co-founder of eight things than tied down for years as the sole founder of one. They’d rather build.

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Sources

  1. Digg Owner Betaworks Buys Instapaper To Go Big On Social Reading And Discovery (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. Betaworks Acquires Digg (TechCrunch) (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  3. Pseudonymous Mobile Messaging App Vibe Acquired By Betaworks (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  4. SocialFlow Secures $10 Million Series B to Grow Market Share As Advertising Spend Goes Social (finance.yahoo.com) [edit]
  5. E-Commerce Site Grand St. Raises $1.3 Million To Give Makers A Place To Sell Their Gadgets (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  6. DrawChat Creator Launches His Mobile Ad Startup Namo Media, Raises $1.9M Round Led By Google Ventures (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  7. Svbtle funding (blog.svbtle.com) [edit]
  8. Teleportd Raises $1M in Seed Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  9. OMGPOP Founder Charles Forman Raises $4M For Picturelife, An App For Backing Up Your Photos In The Cloud (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  10. Pickie Raises $1 Million as App Catalog Trend Kicks Into High Gear (allthingsd.com) [edit]
  11. Paul Berry’s Rebel Mouse raises $2.5 million from an A-list group of investors (pandodaily.com) [edit]
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  13. CoTweet Founders Reunite, Raise Seed Round For Their New Company “Seesaw” (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  14. Betaworks, High Line Venture Partners, SV Angel Back LayerVault (pandodaily.floost.com) [edit]
  15. Thoughts on Leaving TechStars and a New Round of Financing (blog.bondsy.com) [edit]
  16. Fashion-Focused Blog Aggregator Bloglovin Raises $1M From Betaworks And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  17. Home Swapping Startup CasaHop Raises $1.2 Million From First Round, Lerer Ventures, Betaworks, And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  18. Moped Raises $1 Million From Betaworks And SV Angel To Become Twitter For Private Messages Only (businessinsider.com) [edit]
  19. Would-Be ‘Instagram for Publishing’ CheckThis Raises $910K From Lerer Ventures and Others (betabeat.com) [edit]
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  21. Yuri Milner, Dave Morin, SV Angel, CrunchFund And More Hook Up Pair With $4.2M (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  22. Branch Raises $2 Million From SV Angel And Others (businessinsider.com) [edit]
  23. Caterina Fake’s Pinwheel raised $7.5M from Redpoint (gigaom.com) [edit]
  24. Hot Background Location App Highlight Gets Funding As It Plans SXSW Update (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  25. IFTTT, A Glue Gun For Sticking The Web Together, Raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  27. EDGAR [edit]
  28. ‘Web Clipping 2.0′ Startup Clipboard Backed By Andreessen Horowitz, Index, CrunchFund, Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  31. Tablet Education Startup ShowMe Raises $800,000 From Lerer Ventures, SV Angel, And Betaworks (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  32. ChallengePost Picks Up $4.1M in Series A Funding to Help Run Online Contests for New Ideas (xconomy.com) [edit]
  33. Stealth Social Mobile Startup just.me Raises $600K From Google Ventures, SV Angel And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  35. TechStars NYC: Where Are They Now? (betabeat.com) [edit]
  36. Embedly Raises Another $450K, Launches One API To Rule All Embeds (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  38. Spark, Lightbank And Yuri Milner Get In On OnSwipe's $5M "Series Awesome" (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  40. Social Jukebox exfm Raises $750,000 For Its Music Discovery And Sharing Extension (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  42. Kleiner Perkins, SV Angel Back Personalized, Designer Quality E-Commerce Platform Everlane (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  43. Bloom.io Raises Funding for Playful Data Visualization (networkeffect.allthingsd.com) [edit]
  44. Kickstarter Fesses Up: The Crowd-Sourced Funding Startup Has Funding Too (mediamemo.allthingsd.com) [edit]
  45. OnSwipe Raises $1M for Insanely Simple Tablet Publishing Platform (blog.onswipe.com) [edit]
  46. Gaming Site OMGPOP Raises $10.1 Million, Plans Acquisitions (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  48. Yieldbot CEO Mendez Talks About Funding And Future For Publisher-Side Platform (adexchanger.com) [edit]
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  50. Bit.ly Raises $10 Million Series B, Still Growing Like Crazy (technews-vn.blogspot.com) []
  51. Jaiku Founder Raises Seed Funding For New Venture, Pingpin, Wastes My Time (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  52. “Stealth” Advertising Startup AK Networks Raises $8 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  53. Former Google Social Lead Launches Ditto Discovery App (allthingsd.com) [edit]
  54. "Stealth" Advertising Startup AK Networks Raises $8 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  59. Trazzler Gets $1 Million From Star Investors, Takes a Page From Twitter’s Playbook [Video] (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  60. NYC Startup Fluidinfo Raises $800K From Hotshot Investors (businessinsider.com) [edit]
  61. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  62. Extension Entertainment Inc. Launches ExtensionFM: A Chrome Extension That Turns The Entire Web Into Your Personal Music Library (blog.extension.fm) [edit]
  63. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  65. Gdgt Raises New Financing with New Concept (blogs.wsj.com) [edit]
  66. SocialFlow Announces Funding From betaworks and Dan Porter (blog.socialflow.com) [edit]
  67. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) []
  68. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  69. Dealipedia (dealipedia.com) [edit]
  70. Hot Potato Raises $1.42 For Event Social Networking (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
  71. Superfeedr Gets Funding From Mark Cuban And Betaworks (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  72. YC-Funded DailyBooth Raises $1 Million From Sequoia, Kevin Rose, Ron Conway Et Al. (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  74. ChallengePost launches problem-solving site with Wozniak, Betaworks onboard (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  75. UserVoice raises $800K for customer feedback systems (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  76. Twitter Me This: TweetDeck Secures Angel Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  77. StockTwits Raises $800K For Twitter-Fueled Stock Community (alleyinsider.com) [edit]
  78. Hyper-Local News Service Outside.In Grows (bits.blogs.nytimes.com) [edit]
  79. Tipjoy Raises $1 Million For Its Simple Micropayment Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  80. StockTwits.com Closes Angel Funding (alleyinsider.com) [edit]
  81. Iminlikewithyou Gets VC Cash For New Game (gigaom.com) [edit]
  82. Local Content Aggregator Outside.in Gets $3 Million Third Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  83. Covestor Raises $6.5M for Social Investing (mashable.com) [edit]
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  87. Lotame Received $10 Million for Social Media Targeting - VentureCapitalUpdate.com (venturecapitalupdate.com) [edit]
  88. Reed Hundt Invests in Facebook Ad-Platform Lookery (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  89. EDGAR []
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  91. webware.com [edit]
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  94. Investors listed on company site (betaworks.com) [edit]
  95. 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]
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