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Investor Type	Firm
Type of Fund	Venture Capital Fund
Industries	Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Entertainment (& Sports) • CleanTech • Advertising • Impact • Music • Online Social
Stages	Early,Seed, Pre-seed, Series A, Series B
Investing	United States • United Kingdom • Canada • Germany • Japan • Sweden • Netherlands • Austria • Finland
Investment Range	$1,000,000 - $15,000,000

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What is Betaworks?

Betaworks is a startup studio that builds and invests in next generation internet companies. 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](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/summize/), [bitly](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bitly-2), [TweetDeck](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tweetdeck), [Chartbeat](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/chartbeat). And more recently, [Digg](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/digg/), [Dots](http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/01/dots-the-most-beautiful-mobile-game-ive-ever-seen/), [Giphy](http://www.Giphy.com) and [Instapaper](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/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.

What they say:

We invest in product-focused seed-stage companies, particularly in social media.

Betaworks's investments on record

Gimlet Media	$15,000,000.00	Series B
Anchor	$10,000,000.00	Series A
Lunar Wireless	$3,100,000.00	Seed Round
Viro Media	$2,500,000.00	Venture Round
Shine	$2,500,000.00	Venture Round
Roxy	$2,200,000.00	Seed Round
Zoom.ai	$2,100,000.00	Seed Round
MojiLaLa	$1,500,000.00	Seed Round
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