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betaworks

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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.

Recent Milestones

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  betaworks acquired Instapaper. (4/25/13)
  Posted 4/26/13 at 11:38pm via techcrunch.com
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  betaworks invested in SocialFlow. (4/17/13)
  Posted 4/16/13 at 9:24pm via yahoo.com
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  betaworks invested in Grand St.. (4/3/13)
  Posted 4/3/13 at 4:41am via techcrunch.com
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  betaworks invested in Namo Media. (3/1/13)
  Posted 3/18/13 at 11:37am via techcrunch.com
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  betaworks invested in Svbtle. (1/8/13)
  Posted 1/27/13 at 10:28pm via svbtle.com
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  betaworks invested in Nitrogram. (11/29/12)
  Posted 11/29/12 at 9:15pm via finsmes.com
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  betaworks invested in Picturelife. (11/2/12)
  Posted 1/14/13 at 11:45am via techcrunch.com
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  betaworks invested in Pickie. (10/29/12)
  Posted 10/29/12 at 8:25pm via allthingsd.com
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  betaworks invested in RebelMouse. (10/26/12)
  Posted 10/28/12 at 7:55pm via pandodaily.com
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  betaworks added Paul Murphy as SVP of product. (10/1/12)
  Posted 10/5/12 at 1:09pm
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  betaworks invested in Summly . (10/1/12)
  Posted 3/17/13 at 9:22am
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  betaworks invested in Seesaw. (9/21/12)
  Posted 11/13/12 at 4:45am via techcrunch.com
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  betaworks invested in LayerVault. (8/17/12)
  Posted 3/18/13 at 7:35pm via floost.com
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  betaworks acquired Digg for $500k. (7/12/12)
  Posted 7/12/12 at 2:23pm via techcrunch.com
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  betaworks invested in Bondsy. (7/1/12)
  Posted 5/6/13 at 12:21pm via bondsy.com
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  betaworks invested in Bloglovin. (6/29/12)
  Posted 6/29/12 at 1:58pm via techcrunch.com

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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]
29. TechCrunch (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]
41. techcrunch.com [edit]
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]
47. techcrunch.com [edit]
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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56. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
57. TechCrunch (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]
64. techcrunch.com [edit]
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]
84. TechCrunch (techcrunch.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]
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]