Betaworks, who bought Digg earlier this month, released some images of what the new version of Digg will look like. The layout seems to differ immensely from the old site, according to PC Mag, in that visitors to the site will see large images and a spacious layout. This redesign was part of [Full Story…]
Betaworks Asks Users To Help Rebuild Digg
July 24, 2012 at 9:36 am
Betaworks has announced that it will be rebuilding newly acquired Digg from scratch and wants its users' help. According to Mashable.com, the team of 10 engineers, designers and editors plan to remake Digg into "the best place to find, read and share the most interesting and talked about stories on [Full Story…]
NY Based Betaworks Buys Social Reader Site Digg
July 13, 2012 at 11:24 am
Betaworks, NY technology-investment/incubator, announced that it will buy Digg, a seven-year-old social reader for $500,000. According to Bloomberg, Digg will now operate as a part of News.me, a news curation startup funded by Betaworks that makes applications for the iPhone and iPad. Digg [Full Story…]
Bloglovin Secures $1M Funding to Add New York Presence
July 5, 2012 at 12:02 pm
Visual blog aggregator Bloglovin announced it has taken an investment from NY Internet company Betaworks and former Glam CFO and Microsoft executive Bruce Jaffe. Though this is not series A funding, the company announced it has now raised over $1 million from investors. The site allows users to keep [Full Story…]
Wesleyan Alums Create Network in NY Tech Sector
January 29, 2012 at 4:26 pm
Digital Wesleyan, launched in 2010, is a networking group of Wesleyan University alums working in the NY tech industry. The Conneticut based university isn't known for computer science prodigies, but the tech philosophy that champions empowerment, democratization and bottom-up vs. top-down is [Full Story…]
Betaworks Startup Chartbeat Raises $1 Million in Funding
January 9, 2012 at 2:17 pm
Chartbeat, a NY startup that provides realtime analytics to Websites and blogs, announced late last week that it raised a $1 million in funding via an inside round. According to BetaBeat, the Betaworks incubated company raised the money from previous investors as a means to raise a bigger round [Full Story…]
SAI Announces Silicon Alley 100 for 2011
October 5, 2011 at 5:02 pm
Despite a weakening stock market and an uncertain economic climate, Business Insider contends that New York, particular it's Silicon Alley, will see a slew of billion dollar companies this time next year. Home to billion dollar Gilt Groupe and 28 other $100 million ventures, NY has had an auspicious [Full Story…]
Weissman Leaves Betaworks for Union Square Ventures
September 21, 2011 at 10:02 am
Andy Weissman, one of the founders of NY incubator Betaworks is leaving for Union Square Ventures, according to All things D. Peter Kafka reported that Betaworks had earlier planned to split the company into two divisions—an operating company and an early-stage VC unit run by Weissman. The plan [Full Story…]
Tablet Publishing Startup OnSwipe Raises $5 Million
June 6, 2011 at 2:04 pm
NY-based tablet publishing startup OnSwipe recently announced that is has raised $5 million in a Series A funding round that was led by Spark Capital and saw participation from Lightbank, Yuri Milner, Lerer Ventures, Ron Conway’s SVAngel, Betaworks, Morado, Eniac, and Thrive Capital. The company, [Full Story…]
Betaworks to Launch First Gaming Company, Mad Racer
April 24, 2011 at 9:02 am
NY tech incubator, Betaworks, is preparing to launch Mad Racer, its first gaming company. It will provide real-time gaming with people in the user's vicinity. The company is still in the seed stage and is looking for a co-founder, an iOS developer. BetaBeat [Full Story…]
News.Me App to Launch Tomorrow for iPad Users
April 20, 2011 at 2:10 pm
Several months ago, it was reported that NY based tech incubator Betaworks was working with The New York Times Company on a news app called News.me. The app now appears ready to launch tomorrow for iPad users, with a cost of 99 cents a week or $34.99 for a year's subscription. The app itself is [Full Story…]
Borthwick Discusses Betawork’s Investment Philosophy
September 26, 2010 at 12:00 pm
John Borthwick, CEO of NY tech incubator Betaworks, whose company makes seed investments in the real-time web, spoke to ReadWriteWeb's Richard MacManus about the company's philosophy. When the company first began, Borthwick took a look at how social distribution and the real-time web was [Full Story…]
AK Networks Closes $8 Million Funding Round
September 16, 2010 at 10:30 am
According to an article in TechCrunch, New York Web advertising startup AK Networks has closed an $8 million round of Series A funding. Currently in stealth mode, the company's funding round was co-lead by True Ventures’ Jon Callaghan and DCM’s Dixon Doll. Other investors in the round [Full Story…]
Three Reasons on why NYC Challenges Silicon Valley
August 2, 2010 at 8:14 am
Boris Wetz, founder of Canadian VC firm W Media Ventures recently cited three reasons of why New York will begin to challenge Silicon Valley for consumer internet supremacy. According to his blog post, the first reason is because of New York's new generation of VC firms, like Union Square [Full Story…]
Investors, Entrepreneurs Discuss Seed Funding in NYC
June 3, 2010 at 10:45 am
Investors and entrepreneurs discussed the seed funding situation in NYC last week at TechCrunch Disrupt. According to the blog Techblogstoday, the panelists discussed the kinds of companies that do best in NY, with John Borthwick of Betaworks suggesting that those that focus on the UI and user [Full Story…]
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