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 a venture studio 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.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 125 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- 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 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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