Betaworks invests, accelerates, and builds companies and projects from scratch. Its current focus is on web3, crypto media, NLP/CV, applied machine learning, and tools for thinking.
Plastic Labs is a research-driven company building at the intersection of human and machine cognition. Its mission is to solve identity for the agentic world, accelerating a future of abundant, dynamically-aligned synthetic intelligence. The team has built Honcho, a plug-and-play platform that lets developers personalize any LLM app effortlessly. Instead of reinventing user modeling from scratch, developers can integrate Honcho to instantly gain access to rich, persistent user representations. It will use crypto to align incentives: early apps that contribute to the system will receive ownership in the layer and, therefore, upside in it.
Recall is a project building a network for AI agents to store, share, and trade knowledge onchain. It enables agents to prove and monetize data, using blockchain for recording transactions and strategies. Recall is merged by Textile and Ceramic development company 3Box Labs.
Tea is developing a decentralized, open-source software platform to fairly remunerate open-source developers based on their contributions to the entire ecosystem. Max Howell, Co-Founder and CEO of Tea, is renowned for creating Homebrew, one of the most widely-contributed-to open-source software programs globally.
