Betaworks is a New York City-based startup studio and seed-stage venture capital fund that invests in and builds early-stage companies, with a current focus on AI and augmentative technologies. Since 2008, it has invested in more than 150 companies including Rec Room, Hugging Face, and Stability AI.
Deal activity increased 100% year-over-year (4 deals in the last 12 months). Their most common stage is seed (45% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $9.4M (across 68 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
61
Fund Size
$66M
Top Stage
Seed
Last 12 Mo
5
Team
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
73 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| SSolaya | Pre-Seed | $2M | Feb 2026 |
 ESAI | Unknown | $3M | Jan 2026 |
 Dessn | Pre-Seed | $6M | Jan 2026 |
 Nora | Seed | — | Nov 2025 |
 Filament | Seed | $10.7M | Sep 2025 |
 Camera Intelligence | Seed | — | Sep 2025 |
 Plastic Labs | Pre-Seed | $5.3M | Jan 2025 |
 Graze.social | Pre-Seed | $1M | Jan 2025 |
 Granola | Series A | $20M | Oct 2024 |
 OpenHands | Seed | $5M | Sep 2024 |
 Synthetaic | Series B | $3.5M | Feb 2024 |
 Twin | Pre-Seed | $3M | Feb 2024 |
 Sandbar | Pre-Seed | $3M | Jan 2024 |
 Sandbar | Pre-Seed | $3M | Jan 2024 |
 Kosmik | Seed | $3.7M | Dec 2023 |
 Wand | Seed | $4.2M | Aug 2023 |
 Flower | Pre-Seed | $3.6M | Aug 2023 |
 Nomic | Series A | $17M | Jul 2023 |
 Superplastic | Series A | $20M | Feb 2023 |
 tea | Series A | $8.9M | Dec 2022 |
 Friendly Apps | Seed | $3M | May 2022 |
 Hugging Face | Series C | $100M | May 2022 |
 Hidden Door | Pre-Seed | $2M | Jan 2022 |
 Leo AR | Seed | $3M | Apr 2021 |
| Hugging Face | Series B | $40M | Mar 2021 |
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Top Co-Investors
SV Angel14 shared
First Round Capital7 shared
LRMR Ventures6 shared
RRE Ventures6 shared
Sequoia Capital5 shared
General Catalyst5 shared
Factorial Capital5 shared
Lux Capital4 shared
A.Capital Ventures4 shared
BoxGroup4 shared
Lightspeed Venture Partners3 shared
Coatue Management LLC3 shared
Addition3 shared
Craft Ventures3 shared
Index Ventures3 shared
Day One Ventures3 shared
Precursor Ventures3 shared
Y Combinator3 shared
GV3 shared
BBG Ventures3 shared
Last updated: 7 September 2026