Betaworks Ventures
VC Fund
New York, United States
Betaworks Ventures is a product-focused, seed-stage venture capital fund based in New York City and San Francisco.
- Total investments:
- 49
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 14%
- Fund size:
- $52M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Betaworks Ventures invests in
Stages Betaworks Ventures invests in
Countries Betaworks Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $700k–$7M
- Pre-Seed
- $210k–$1.7M
- Series A
- $4.8M–$17M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 17 (35%)
- Artificial Intelligence 11 (22%)
- Information Technology 7 (14%)
- Apps 6 (12%)
- Gaming 4 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 21 (43%)
- Pre-Seed 12 (24%)
- Series A 6 (12%)
- Series B 2 (4%)
- Funding Round 1 (2%)
Country
- United States 31 (63%)
- United Kingdom 2 (4%)
- Canada 1 (2%)
- France 1 (2%)
- Switzerland 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
John Borthwick
CEO & Founder
|
CEO & Founder | Total investments: 78 | Find email | |
Zafar Mirzaliev
Investor
|
Investor | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Shoutcast Net
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Audio And Video Live Streaming Platform For Artists, DJs, Singers, Concerts, Events, Conferences. | $200K / Seed / Mar 01, 2026 | |
Midsummer Studios
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Midsummer Studios is a independent, well-funded and committed to building a new kind of studio. | $6M / Seed / May 14, 2024 | |
Digs
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Digs is a SaaS platform that serves builders and contractors by providing tools to streamline preconstruction planning, document collaboration, and homeowner handover. The service offers modules like file management (“DigsCloud”) that centralize project files and enable AI-powered search, collaboration boards (“DigsCanvas”) that generate 2D/3Ddigital twins of homes from standard blueprints, and handoff/warranty tools (“DigsCare”) that deliver digital home portfolios and postbuild support. The product is designed to bring all stakeholders, including builders, subcontractors, suppliers, and homeowners, into a unified workspace, tracking selections, approvals, changes, and warranties in one place. By converting traditional paper-based processes into a structured digital workflow, Digs aims to reduce information silos and improve communication across the build lifecycle. | $7M / Seed / Jan 25, 2024 | |
Nomic
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Nomic AI engages in improving both the explainability and accessibilty of AI. | $17M / Series A / Jul 13, 2023 | |
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Digs
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Digs is a SaaS platform that serves builders and contractors by providing tools to streamline preconstruction planning, document collaboration, and homeowner handover. The service offers modules like file management (“DigsCloud”) that centralize project files and enable AI-powered search, collaboration boards (“DigsCanvas”) that generate 2D/3Ddigital twins of homes from standard blueprints, and handoff/warranty tools (“DigsCare”) that deliver digital home portfolios and postbuild support. The product is designed to bring all stakeholders, including builders, subcontractors, suppliers, and homeowners, into a unified workspace, tracking selections, approvals, changes, and warranties in one place. By converting traditional paper-based processes into a structured digital workflow, Digs aims to reduce information silos and improve communication across the build lifecycle. | $7M / Seed / Feb 01, 2023 | |
Tea
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Tea Inc. is a Puerto Rico-based corporation that is building the open source toolkit that makes development possible and builds the internet: it’s “brew2 for web3.” Developers can work on any platform, CI/CD on any platform, deploy on any platform; Tea abstracts this detail away so developers can get on with the work that matters. | $8.9M / Seed / Dec 06, 2022 | |
Friendly Apps
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Friendly Apps is to create a suite of apps with a different set of values that are targeted toward helping people with both their physical and mental health in new ways. | $3M / Seed / May 26, 2022 | |
Ink
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Ink enables creators to sign or draw on any form of digital content with their finger, and instantly turn that content into an affordable NFT via their exclusive marketplace at Ink ID. | $1.5M / Pre-Seed / Apr 20, 2022 | |
Synthetaic
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Synthetaic is a Delafield, Wisconsin-based company that grows large and high-quality datasets sufficient for machine learning. The company is able to extend AI into industries where data constraints have prevented previous applications of the technology. By focusing specifically on synthetic image data, which is more challenging to produce thancolumnar data, Synthetaic is able to address particularly high-stakes use cases.Through a collaboration with the University of Michigan, Synthetaic is developing a real-time tumor classification AI system that would assist surgeons in identifying what type of brain cancer is present while performing surgery. By combining high-fidelity 3D modeling and novel generative AI with germane, integrated modeling workflows, they deliver an end-to-end pipeline that ensures ultra-high accuracy.Synthetaic was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Delafield, WI, USA. | $13M / Series A / Mar 15, 2022 | |
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Synthetaic
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Synthetaic is a Delafield, Wisconsin-based company that grows large and high-quality datasets sufficient for machine learning. The company is able to extend AI into industries where data constraints have prevented previous applications of the technology. By focusing specifically on synthetic image data, which is more challenging to produce thancolumnar data, Synthetaic is able to address particularly high-stakes use cases.Through a collaboration with the University of Michigan, Synthetaic is developing a real-time tumor classification AI system that would assist surgeons in identifying what type of brain cancer is present while performing surgery. By combining high-fidelity 3D modeling and novel generative AI with germane, integrated modeling workflows, they deliver an end-to-end pipeline that ensures ultra-high accuracy.Synthetaic was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Delafield, WI, USA. | $13M / Series A / Mar 14, 2022 | |
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FAQ
What does Betaworks Ventures invest in?
Betaworks Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 49 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Betaworks Ventures's check size?
Betaworks Ventures typically joins rounds of $700k–$7M at Seed, $210k–$1.7M at Pre-Seed and $4.8M–$17M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Betaworks Ventures participates in.
How do I contact Betaworks Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Betaworks Ventures?
The team at Betaworks Ventures includes John Borthwick (CEO & Founder) and Zafar Mirzaliev (Investor). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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