Betaworks
betaworks.com Direct investor
Betaworks is a New York-based startup platform that builds, accelerates, and invests in early-stage technology companies, with a focus on AI, gaming, and decentralization. It operates a cohort-based program called Camp.
Betaworks is an investor headquartered in New York, United States, founded in 2008. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in AI, gaming and decentralization. Its stated cheque size is $250,000 to $750,000.
“We invest at pre-seed and seed stage and our typical check size ranges from $250,000 to $750,000.”
— Betaworks, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture studio
- Headquarters
- New York, United States
- Invests in
- global
- Cheque size
- $250,000 to $750,000
- Founded
- 2008
Team, as Betaworks publishes it
- John Borthwick Managing Partner
- Jordan Crook Partner
- Jon Chin Operating Partner
- Analisa Svehaug Director
- Lauren Olson Fund Operations Manager
Names and roles exactly as listed on betaworks.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 125 co-investors found.
- Kima Ventures 4 shared companies: autoplay.ai, thelobby.ai, thebrowser.company, twin.so
- Salesforce Ventures 2 shared companies: airtable.com, huggingface.co
- Silver Lake 2 shared companies: airtable.com, software.inc
- A.Capital Ventures 2 shared companies: huggingface.co, stability.ai
- Grão 2 shared companies: huggingface.co, stability.ai
- Union Square Ventures 2 shared companies: tumblr.com, recall.network
- Metaplanet 2 shared companies: answer.ai, givemomentum.com
- Homebrew 1 shared company: hiddendoor.co
- Makers Fund 1 shared company: hiddendoor.co
- Northzone 1 shared company: hiddendoor.co
and 115 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Betaworks publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.betaworks.com/name, status
- https://www.betaworks.com/companiesis_investor, layer, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, confidence
- https://www.betaworks.com/teamtype, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, description, founded, people
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Record 1840 · added 2026-08-29 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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