Tablet Video Startup Watchup Raises $500K From Knight Foundation, News Vets, Others

Watchup, a StartX-incubated video iPad app that allows users to build their own news playlists, has raised a $500,000 angel funding. It's an impressive list of investors, including Digital News Ventures, The Knight Foundation (co-founder Adriano Farano was a Knight Fellow at Stanford and Watchup was one of the winners of the Knight News Challenge), former Wall Street Journal publisher Gordon Crovitz, and Steve Taylor, who led the development of the Boston Globe's website Boston.com.

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