Betaworks in the News

Hugging Face, a start-up that was breached by rogue bots from OpenAI, is using the hack to push for openness in A.I. development.

Betaworks Targets the "Second-Order Fallout" of AI Agents with Its $66M Fund 3.0

Resemble AI Pivots from Voice Generation to Multimodal Deepfake Detection as Synthetic Fraud Escalates

ChatGPT maker OpenAI revealed that its technology hacked into another AI company on its own during internal testing. Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue, described the incident in an interview on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" – and offered suggestions on how future incidents could be prevented.

Granola CEO Chris Pedregal on invisible AI bots, the coming fight over who sees your transcripts, and why he turns down the companies that ask for them

While everyone tries to make smart glasses, pins, and everything else happen, the most subtle device might be the best device.

OpenAI and Hugging Face Jointly Investigate Infrastructure Compromise Caused by Autonomous Pre-Release AI Models During Testing

Resemble AI Upgrades PerTh to Default Multimodal Watermarking Ahead of Strict EU AI Act Compliance Deadlines

As Open Models Gain Traction, Developer Shift Toward Customizable AI Challenges the Dominance of Frontier Labs

How owning models, datasets, and infrastructure allows enterprises to break free from closed ecosystems and build scalable, proprietary AI architectures.

Marker secures $13M from top investors—including the creators of Google Docs, Slack, and Hugging Face—to build an AI tool that assists writers instead of replacing them.

Ex-Google engineers beat out nine top finalists in front of judges from Nvidia and Microsoft by reimagining how physical AI models learn and adapt in real-world environments.

New LeRobot integrations give developers open access to NVIDIA Isaac GR00T 1.7, Isaac Teleop, datasets and robotics workflows, with NVIDIA Cosmos 3 integration planned to bring frontier world models to open robotics development.

Brandi conducts ongoing, natural voice interviews to surface student strengths and build a living profile that directly matches candidates to colleges, internships, and entry-level roles.

Backed by Betaworks and prominent angel investors, the startup targets the runaway costs of running complex agentic workflows in production.

More than 30% of Fortune 500 companies now use verified accounts, as the open platform expands into developer hardware and robotics.

Dessn Raises $6M Led by Connect Ventures to Help Product Teams Design Directly Within Production Codebases.

Era Computer has raised $11 million in total funding—including a recent $9 million seed round led by Abstract Ventures and BoxGroup, alongside pre-seed backing from Topology Ventures and Betaworks—to build an intelligence and software platform tailored for custom AI devices.

Startup bets on software layer for emerging AI glasses, rings, and pendants

Early-stage venture fund Betaworks announced the latest 10 companies launching from its prestigious Camp program.

The Stream Ring comes from new wearable company Sandbar that was founded by former Meta employees.

New York VC Betaworks Closes $66M Fund III to Target Early-Stage AI Startups.

Betaworks hosted a 12-week accelerator Camp providing nine startups—spanning agentic B2B tools, personalized software, and AI-enabled hardware—with $500,000 in funding to build native AI applications.

Describing the concept of camp post AI boom: Betaworks launched a new $500K AI-focused "camp" program for ~10 startups in 2023, with CEO John Borthwick calling generative AI the biggest tech shift of his career while betting on companies building tools that augment human work and creativity.

Coverage of Betaworks Ventures' first close on a new institutional fund, timed right after two of its early seed bets — Gimlet Media and Anchor — were acquired by Spotify in February 2019.

Poncho, the Betaworks-backed weather service known for delivering forecasts via witty texts and GIFs, raised $2.4 million from Lightspeed Ventures after a boost from Apple's Planet of the Apps and is now building AI-driven personalization into its app.

Betaworks' minimalist puzzle game Dots became a viral hit in 2013, hitting #3 on Apple's app charts and nearing a million players within its first week, thanks to its stripped-down, "flat" design.

Describing the launch of Swirl app

This 2010 NYT piece profiles Betaworks' Meatpacking District office as an early example of the "startup studio" model, where portfolio companies work alongside each other and share resources under one roof.

This 2010 NYT article reports that Betaworks, the NYC startup incubator behind tools like TweetDeck and Bit.ly, raised $20 million in Series B funding led by Intel Capital and RRE Ventures to expand its investments in early-stage real-time web startups.

Betaworks, the NYC tech incubator behind the early Summize/Twitter deal, raised $10-15M from angel investors in 2008 to roughly double its average investment size.