John Borthwick is a founder and managing partner who co-leads Betaworks, a startup studio and seed-stage investor focused on AI, gaming, and decentralization. John Borthwick's Twitter Score is 139 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #4,239 (top 1%) among 483,652 tracked accounts.
John Borthwick founded Betaworks, which describes itself as investing, building, and working with creators and makers since 2008. The studio's decentralization focus centers on open source software and developer tools, and its past accelerator programs have included companies such as Blockchain.ai. Among the investments and companies Betaworks has worked with are Twitter, Tumblr, Kickstarter, Medium, Anchor, Gimlet, Hugging Face, The Browser Company, and Granola.
John Borthwick has accumulated 35,662 followers as of August 2026 and has published 8,886 posts on the platform. John Borthwick has been mentioned by 226 accounts, with 725 total mentions.
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