# Betaworks (slim)

> Betaworks's investments in AI tools on Anchor Terminal, Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine), Nomic, Inc., Granola, Inc., Plastic Labs and 3 more, with each listing's grade and the founders behind it.

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Venture firm.

Website: https://www.betaworks.com

## Companies on Anchor Terminal

- **Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine)**, Series C, May 2022
  - [Carbon-X](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/carbon-x.md), graded C, 61/100
  - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/series-c
- **Nomic, Inc.**, Series A, 2023, through Betaworks Ventures
  - [GPT4All](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gpt4all.md), graded F, 36.4/100
  - [Nomic Embed](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nomic-embed.md), graded D, 49.6/100
  - Source: https://www.nomic.ai/about
- **Granola, Inc.**, Series A, October 2024
  - [Granola](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granola.md), graded C, 61.6/100
  - Source: https://www.granola.ai/blog/series-a
- **Plastic Labs**, Pre-seed, May 2025, led a round
  - [Honcho](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/honcho.md), graded B, 64.1/100
  - Source: https://blog.plasticlabs.ai/posts/Launching-Honcho;-The-Personal-Identity-Platform-for-AI
- **Hugging Face, Inc.**, Series C, May 2022
  - [Hugging Face Inference Endpoints](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hugging-face-inference-endpoints.md), graded B, 64.7/100
  - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/series-c
- **All Hands AI**, Seed, September 2024
  - [OpenHands](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openhands.md), graded BB, 71/100
  - Source: https://www.openhands.dev/blog/press-release-all-hands-announces-5m-to-scale-ai-agent-for-software-development
- **Hugging Face**, Series C, May 2022
  - [SmolLM3-3B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smollm3-3b.md), graded C, 61/100
  - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/series-c

## Where they invest

- Open-weight models, 2
- Local AI, 1
- Embeddings & rerankers, 1
- Meeting capture & meeting infrastructure, 1
- Agent memory, 1
- GPU & serverless compute, 1
- Agent harnesses, 1

## Founders they backed

- [Clément Delangue](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/clement-delangue/), Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine), Hugging Face, Inc., Hugging Face
- [Julien Chaumond](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/julien-chaumond/), Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine), Hugging Face, Inc., Hugging Face
- [Thomas Wolf](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/thomas-wolf/), Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine), Hugging Face, Inc., Hugging Face
- [Andriy Mulyar](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/andriy-mulyar/), Nomic, Inc.
- [Brandon Duderstadt](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/brandon-duderstadt/), Nomic, Inc.
- [Robert Brennan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/robert-brennan/), All Hands AI
- [Xingyao Wang](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/xingyao-wang/), All Hands AI

## Questions

### Which AI tools has Betaworks invested in?

Anchor Terminal lists Hugging Face (with Zhongguancun Academy and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine), Nomic, Inc., Granola, Inc., Plastic Labs, Hugging Face, Inc., All Hands AI and Hugging Face backed by Betaworks.

### How are Betaworks's companies graded?

On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, Carbon-X (C, 61), GPT4All (F, 36.4), Nomic Embed (D, 49.6), Granola (C, 61.6), Honcho (B, 64.1), Hugging Face Inference Endpoints (B, 64.7), OpenHands (BB, 71) and SmolLM3-3B (C, 61).

Investors are named from the companies' own announcements, the investors' own pages, Y Combinator's company pages, public filings and news reports of a round, each with its source.