Investing Profile

John Borthwick

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Entrepreneur and investor

betaworksventures.com/johnbor...New York, New York

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Current Investing Position

Betaworks Ventures Investor

Investment Range

$100K - $500K

Sweet Spot

$350K

Investments On Record

Current Fund Size

$50M

John Borthwick is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Media/Content (Seed)Media/Content (Series A)AI (Seed)AI (Series A)New York City Consumer Internet (Seed)Angel, Scout, and Solo-Capitalists Consumer Internet (Series A)

John Borthwick's Investments On Record (65)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Sensity AI	Series UnknownJan 2026$2M	$2.8M
Co-investors: Keith Titan (BDMI - Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments)
Camera Intelligence	SeedSep 2025$2M	$2M
Co-investors: Andrew J Scott (7percent Ventures)
Hugging Face	Series CMay 2022$100M	$400M
Co-investors: David Cahn (Sequoia Capital), Patrick Grady (Sequoia Capital), Sonya Huang (Sequoia Capital), Brandon Reeves (Lux Capital), Rich Kleiman (Thirty Five Ventures), Kevin Durant (oklahoma city thunder), Lee Fixel (Addition), Ronny Conway (A Capital), Matthew Hartman (Factorial Capital), Richard Socher (AIX Ventures), Terrence Rohan (Otherwise Fund), Ana Levine (E1 Ventures), Brad Bitler (Apple), Walter Kortschak (Kortschak Investments), Greg Brockman, Charles Zedlewski, Augusto Marietti, Ronny Conway, Nicolas Steegmann, Thibaud Elziere, Florian Douetteau, Clement Benoit
blockchain.art	Pre SeedMay 2021$300K	$300K
Momentum	Pre SeedJan 2019	$18M
Co-investors: Elizabeth Yin (Hustle Fund), Paul Grossinger (Gaingels), Ali Rosenthal (Leadout Capital), Amish Jani (Self-employed), Jay Love (Instrumentl), Tihan Seale (Splash Capital), Karen King (Silver Lake Kraftwerk), Rauno Miljand (Metaplanet), Matthew Dellavedova (Athletico Ventures), Eric Tarczynski (Contrary Capital), Niv Dror (Shrug Capital), Matthew Hartman (Factorial Capital), Clint Korver (Ulu Ventures), Miriam Rivera (Ulu Ventures), Nico Wittenborn (Adjacent), Mark Cuban (PKF The Consulting House, Dubai - UAE), Eric Ries (Long-Term Stock Exchange), Mark Pincus, Tim Kendall, Sheila Vashee, Jaan Tallinn, Ron Pragides, Joe Greenstein, Derrick Li
Vizual.ai	SeedMar 2017
Co-investors: Alan Hudson (Mercuri)
Giphy	Series CFeb 2016$55M Series BJan 2015$17M Series AMay 2014$2M	$150M
Co-investors: Todd Chaffee (IVP), Jeremy Liew (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Paul Murphy (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Stuart Ellman (RRE Ventures), Will Kohler (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Dennis Phelps (IVP), Thomas Loverro (IVP)
Dasher	SeedJun 2015$840K	$1.8M
Co-investors: David Tisch (BoxGroup), Adam Rothenberg (BoxGroup), Keith Nilsson (Xplorer Capital), Nick Beim (Venrock)