
AOL, Intel, And The New York Times Help betaworks Raise a $20 Million Series B

Betaworks, the New York City-based holding company investing in the realtime Web, just raised a $20 million Series B. The round was led by RRE Ventures and Intel Capital, DFJ Growth, AOL Ventures, The New York Times, Softbank Japan and Softbank NY, Lerer Investments and Founders Collective, also participated, along with investors from the last round, which was $7.5 million The company both invests and incubates realtime media startups, including Summize (acquired by Twitter for realtime search), bit.ly, TweetDeck, StockTwits, SuperFeedr, Outside.in, OMGPOP, and gdgt. CEO John Borthwick says that the funds will be used to do more of the same, invest in and create



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Betaworks, a New York Tech Incubator, Has Grown a Following
[Tech Industry News]Betaworks has fostered some big hits, like TweetDeck and Bit.ly, but it is trying to grow carefully, with a symbiotic group of companies.
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Chartbeat To Track Your Website | Blog YODspica Ltd
[Software]Betaworks, John Borthwick’s startup holding company which has stakes in Twitter and Tweetdeck, and spun off bit.ly, has just launched Chartbeat. Keeping with Betaworks’ focus on real-time data services, Chartbeat offers a dashboard for Website owners that monitors how many people are on their site at any given second.
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Twitter Adobe AIR Application TweetDeck Raises $300,000
[Tech Industry News]TweetDeck, an application built for aggregating content spread on Twitter and status updates on Facebook built on Adobe AIR has raised $300,000 in funding led by Betaworks. TweetDeck was founded by Iain Dodsworth.
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Search News: Exploring the Bleeding Edge with Betaworks
[Tech Industry News]Reprise Media announced an agreement with Betaworks, an accelerator of new technology businesses, in which they will be their exclusive search marketing and SEO partner.
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Startup Advice: Worry, But Don't Panic
[Tech Industry News]John Borthwick, who heads up the Betaworks incubator/"business acceleration platform" (investments in Twitter, Tumblr, someecards, etc.) sent out a memo out to his portfolio companies Saturday afternoon about the exciting growth and transformation opportunities that will arise from the meltdown.




















