This paper develops a theory of pretriangulated 2-representations of dg 2-categories. We characterize cyclic pretriangulated 2-representations, under certain compactness assumptions, in terms of modules over dg algebra 1morphisms internal to associated dg 2-categories of compact dg modules. Further, we investigate the Morita theory and quasi-equivalences for such dg 2representations. We relate this theory to various classes of examples of dg categorifications from the literature. Contents 1. Introduction 2.1. Dg categories 2.2. pretriangulated categories 2.3. Compact dg modules 2.4. Compactness and adjunctions 2.5. The homotopy category of compact semi-free modules 3. Dg 2-categories and 2-representations 3.1. Dg 2-categories 3.2. Dg 2-representations 3.3. Compact pretriangulated 2-representations 3.4. Dg ideals of 2-representations and dg 2-subrepresentations 3.5. Cyclic and quotient-simple dg 2-representations 3.6. Homotopy 2-representations 4. Dg algebra 1-morphisms 4.1. Compact modules over dg algebra 1-morphisms 4.2. The algebra structure on internal homs [X, X] 4.3. An equivalence of dg 2-representations 4.4. Morphisms of dg 2-representations and dg algebra 1-morphisms