# Paul Vidich

> Paul Vidich is a seed investor at Betaworks backing Music and Analytics. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Betaworks](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/betaworks)
- Location: Manhattan, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Jan 2008
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-vidich-0114bb3
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/paulvidich
- Website: http://paulvidich.com

Paul Vidich is a seed investor at Betaworks in Manhattan focused on Music and Analytics. Paul Vidich - Advisor @ Bitly

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Music | 1 | 33% |
| Analytics | 1 | 33% |
| Publishing | 1 | 33% |
| Advertising | 1 | 33% |
| File Sharing | 1 | 33% |

8 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 67% |
| Angel | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bitly | Bitly is a link management platform that helps brands deliver and measure their marketing efforts across all channels. Through branded bitlinks, mobile deep linking, and omnichannel campaign tracking, the platform offers a complete marketing solution to drive customer experiences. Using HTTP 301 redirects for its links, companies can use their owncustom domains to generate shortened links. This allows the company to push brand awareness on services such as Twitter but use the Bitly engine to generate the shortened URLs and track marketing metrics.Bitly was launched in July 2008 and is based in New York, United States with additional offices in San Francisco and Denver. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2008 | http://bitly.com |
| Qloud | Qloud (pronounced "cloud") is an online music service launched by former AOL'ers Mike Lewis and Toby Murdock and backed by Steve Case's Revolution LLC and former music industry executives. The service allows users to enjoy and share their music collections within their favorite social networks. The company powers the My Musicapplication on Facebook, was also a launch partner in The service grew to over 3 million users in its first 6 months after launch. In Q2 2008, it was acquired by The My Music application competes with similar social music services like Following the acquisition, Mike Lewis and Toby Murdock became EVP of Product and Engineering at BUZZMEDIA |  | Angel | Nov 06, 2007 | http://www.qloud.com |
| Qloud | Qloud (pronounced "cloud") is an online music service launched by former AOL'ers Mike Lewis and Toby Murdock and backed by Steve Case's Revolution LLC and former music industry executives. The service allows users to enjoy and share their music collections within their favorite social networks. The company powers the My Musicapplication on Facebook, was also a launch partner in The service grew to over 3 million users in its first 6 months after launch. In Q2 2008, it was acquired by The My Music application competes with similar social music services like Following the acquisition, Mike Lewis and Toby Murdock became EVP of Product and Engineering at BUZZMEDIA |  | Seed | May 01, 2006 | http://www.qloud.com |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Revolution](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/revolution) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Betaworks

VC Fund · New York, United States

Betaworks Ventures is a product-focused, seed-stage venture capital fund, having invested in more than 150 companies. We invest in new consumer behaviors and trends powered by frontier technologies, and are often amongst the first institutional investors to invest.

5 contacts available at Betaworks.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Analisa Svehaug | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/analisa-svehaug |
| Danika Laszuk | GM | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/danika-laszuk |
| John Borthwick | CEO, Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-borthwick |
| Jon Chin | Copy / Paste Specialist | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jon-chin |
| Jordan Crook | Partner; Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jordan-crook |

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## FAQ

### What does Paul Vidich invest in?

Paul Vidich invests primarily in Music, Analytics and Publishing startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Paul Vidich last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Paul Vidich closed in Jan 2008. Shizune tracks 3 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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