Watchup is the first streaming news service that brings together technology and video journalism in a convenient app available on iPhone, iPad, Android devices, Fire TV and Nintendo Wii U. Users can customize their daily newscasts to follow over 160 local, national and international news channels and more than a dozen news categories. Featured in the App Store, Watchup puts the world's most trusted news channels in one place. Major news outlets such as CBS News, Fox News, and Vox have partnered with Watchup to deliver their content on the app.
Watchup was incubated at StartX, the Stanford startup accelerator, and was named one of the Best Apps of 2014 on Google's Play Store and a finalist for the Webby awards in 2015. It is also the first news streaming app featured on Nintendo's Wii U.
Watchup's mission is to lend a variety of viewpoints through numerous news channels and topics. The world is rapidly changing and there isn't a single news channel that understands it all. Watchup helps others navigate these changes with its comprehensive news offerings and easy to use app. The app was created with the purpose of serving the modern news junkie: always on the go and on the grind. Our team values journalism, innovation, hard work, the user experience, and… Italian espresso.
Watchup's main office is located in the heart of Silicon Valley, California, just a few miles from Stanford University where the company was incubated. We also have a satellite office in Cluj, Romania, one of the best tech hubs in Europe. Other employees report from multiple locations around the world including New York City and Rome.
Learn more:
Twitter --- @watchup
Facebook --- http://facebook.com/watchupapp
Careers page --- http://watchup.com/careers/
Medium --- https://medium.com/@farano/
Watchup was incubated at StartX, the Stanford startup accelerator, and was named one of the Best Apps of 2014 on Google's Play Store and a finalist for the Webby awards in 2015. It is also the first news streaming app featured on Nintendo's Wii U.
Watchup's mission is to lend a variety of viewpoints through numerous news channels and topics. The world is rapidly changing and there isn't a single news channel that understands it all. Watchup helps others navigate these changes with its comprehensive news offerings and easy to use app. The app was created with the purpose of serving the modern news junkie: always on the go and on the grind. Our team values journalism, innovation, hard work, the user experience, and… Italian espresso.
Watchup's main office is located in the heart of Silicon Valley, California, just a few miles from Stanford University where the company was incubated. We also have a satellite office in Cluj, Romania, one of the best tech hubs in Europe. Other employees report from multiple locations around the world including New York City and Rome.
Learn more:
Twitter --- @watchup
Facebook --- http://facebook.com/watchupapp
Careers page --- http://watchup.com/careers/
Medium --- https://medium.com/@farano/
Location: Romania, Cluj-Napoca
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $4.25M
Founded date: 2012
Investors 2
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Stanford A... | stanfordaa... |
| - | StartX | startx.com |
Funding Rounds 3
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 06.11.2014 | - | $2.75M | - |
| 04.02.2014 | - | $1M | - |
| 10.12.2012 | - | $500K | - |
Mentions in press and media 26
| Date | Title | Description |
| 31.01.2017 | Plex Acquires Streaming News App Watchup | Plex, a streaming media app, acquired Watchup, a Stanford, CA-based streaming news app. The amount of the deal was not disclosed. Led by Adriano Farano, CEO, Watchup is streaming news service working on iPhone, iPad, Android devices, Fire T... |
| 28.01.2016 | Watchup Brings Local, National & International News To Your Apple TV | A video news application with hundreds of thousands of active users is coming to Apple TV. Watchup, as the app is called, offers a combination of national, international and local news content from 160 news sources, including CNN, as well a... |
| 04.11.2015 | NewsON Brings Your Local News Stations To iOS, Android And Roku | A company called NewsON launched today, offering cord cutters and mobile consumers access to local news with an app that works on iOS, Android, and Roku devices. The service, which is financially backed by a cohort of TV stations, claims to... |
| 23.03.2015 | Here are your top accelerators of 2014 | Topping the list is AngelPad, along with TechStars, 500 Startups and DreamIt Ventures (Come mingle with hundreds of top venture capitalists representing $10B-plus in capital under management, including Khosla Ventures, Greylock and Javelin ... |
| 06.11.2014 | Watchup Raises $2.75M in Funding | Watchup, a Stanford, CA-based startup focused on TV news, raised $2.75m in funding. The round was led by Tribune Media with participation from The McClatchy Company and existing investors Knight Enterprise Fund, Stanford-StartX Fund and Ned... |
| 06.11.2014 | Watchup raises $2.75M to bring the personalize the news | Watchup is an app that aggregates news video from sources including the WSJ, Fox and CNET With so much content streaming online, and channels like HBO and CBS already announcing that they will start offering stand-alone online streaming ser... |
| 09.04.2014 | Out of the mouths of SPROCKIT startups | This sponsored post is produced by SPROCKIT. This week at the NAB Show, startup program SPROCKIT is shining a spotlight on entrepreneurs in media and entertainment. Twenty-seven companies are meeting with leading media companies to share id... |
| 26.03.2014 | Here are 17 startups changing how we create and consume content | This sponsored post is produced by SPROCKIT. Last week, NAB Show introduced the first 10 startups participating in SPROCKIT, a year-round startup program now in its second year with more influencers, participants, and visionaries than ever ... |
| 07.02.2014 | Funding roundup - week ending 2/7/14 | UXPin, Netflix, Foursquare, Localytics, PicHit.Me, Remind101, Wisembly, DataRank, Flashnotes, Asseta Seed stage Apportable, a startup that helps app developers convert their iOS apps to Android, raised a seed round of $5 million, led Danhua... |
| 04.02.2014 | Watchup Raises $1M | Watchup, a Palo Alto, CA-based video news startup, raised $1m in funding. Backers included Microsoft Ventures, Stanford-StartX, the Knight Foundation, Campus Televideo founder Ned Lamont, TV news producer Tom Yellin and angel investor Gerry... |
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