Peter Rojas
Partner, Betaworks Ventures
Peter Rojas is a partner at Betaworks Ventures, a seed stage venture capital fund based in New York and San Francisco. He is also the co-founder of several startups, including Weblogs Inc. (acquired by AOL in 2005), where he created and was editor-in-chief of both Engadget and Joystiq; Gizmodo (formerly Gawker Media, now part of Univision); music discovery service RCRD LBL; and gdgt, a social commerce platform (acquired by AOL in 2013). Prior to Betaworks Ventures he worked at AOL as VP of Strategy and later as Co-director of Alpha, the company’s experimental products group.