# Betaworks Ventures

> Betaworks Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 48 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 48
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 15%
- Last fund: Dec 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/betaworks-ventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/betaworksvc
- Website: https://betaworksventures.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/betaworks/

Betaworks Ventures is a product-focused, seed-stage venture capital fund based in New York City and San Francisco.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $700k–$7M |
| Pre-Seed | $210k–$1.7M |
| Series A | $4.8M–$17M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 18 | 38% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 10 | 21% |
| Information Technology | 7 | 15% |
| Apps | 6 | 13% |
| Gaming | 4 | 8% |

84 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 21 | 44% |
| Pre-Seed | 12 | 25% |
| Series A | 6 | 13% |
| Series B | 2 | 4% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 31 | 65% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 4% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| France | 1 | 2% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| John Borthwick | CEO & Founder | 77 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-borthwick |
| Zafar Mirzaliev | Investor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zafar-mirzaliev |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Shoutcast Net | Audio And Video Live Streaming Platform For Artists, DJs, Singers, Concerts, Events, Conferences. | $200K | Seed | Mar 01, 2026 |  |
| Midsummer Studios | Midsummer Studios is a independent, well-funded and committed to building a new kind of studio. | $6M | Seed | May 14, 2024 |  |
| Digs | Digs provides easy-to-use solutions that enhance residential home builders existing processes. | $7M | Seed | Jan 25, 2024 |  |
| Nomic | Nomic AI engages in improving both the explainability and accessibilty of AI. | $17M | Series A | Jul 13, 2023 |  |
| Digs | Digs provides easy-to-use solutions that enhance residential home builders existing processes. | $7M | Seed | Feb 01, 2023 |  |
| Tea | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Synthetaic | 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 |  |

10 of 48 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Betaworks](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/betaworks) — VC Fund, 14 deals together
- [Mercuri](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mercuri-vc) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Acequia Capital (AceCap)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acequia-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [GMG Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gmg-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Lupa Systems](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lupa-systems-a816) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Shrug Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shrug-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

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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 48 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?

Public channels for Betaworks Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### 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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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