In a blog post today, Betaworks CEO John Borthwick announced that Branch founder Josh Miller would be joining the technology studio as a part-time venture partner. There he will “be focused on working with seed-stage companies in New York,” according to Borthwick.
Miller, in case you forgot, is the guy who successfully “negged” Facebook. As founder of Branch Media, he had written a few critical words about Facebook before, you know, being acquired by Facebook. But he’s also widely regarded as a pretty awesome and thoughtful product guy, which is no doubt part of the appeal for Betaworks.
Betaworks, which bills itself as “a company of builders,” is a technology studio and investment firm that finds, builds, and invests in a wide range of interesting products. It’s home to products that include Digg, Instapaper, Dots, Bitly, and Chartbeat — some of which it acquired, some of which were built in-house.
Betaworks also makes investments in other companies in the New York ecosystem, which is how Borthwick and Miller came to know one another. Branch was one of the companies that Betaworks had invested in, and it even spent nine months working out of Betaworks.
We’ve reached out to Borthwick to find out more about how Miller will fit in with the team and what his role will be, and will update when we hear back.
