In addition to the companies we build at betaworks, we make seed-stage investments in the real-time social web. We do this in order to build an ecosystem of entrepreneurs and businesses that can learn, share, and grow with one another.
To us, seed investing means "first money in." Our typical investment size is $100,000-200,000. We usually 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.
AirBnb
Backupify
Bloom
Bondsy
Braintree
Branch
Buzzfeed
ChallengePost
Checkthis
Clipboard
Covestor
Dailybooth
Ditto
Editorially
Embedly
Everlane
ex.fm
Fancy Hands
Findery
Fluidinfo
gdgt
Grand St
Groupme
Groupon
Highlight
Hot Potato
ideeli
ifttt
Justme
Keep
Kickstarter
Layervault
Livestar
Lotame
Mixel
Mob.ly
Moped
Namomedia
Teleportd
OMGPOP
Onegoodmovie
Onswipe
Outside.in
Couple
Path
Pickie
Picturelife
Piictu
Pinterest
Punch
Rap Genius
Rebelmouse
Seesaw
ShowMe
someecards
Songkick
Star.me
Stocktwits
Svbtle
Summize
Summly
Superfeedr
Trazzler
Tumblr
Tweetdeck
Twitter
Twitter Feed
UserMedia
UserVoice
venmo
Veri
yieldbot