Haystack TV Raises $1.7 Million For Its News Service


What does Haystack TV do?

Haystack TV,  finds and picks the most important video news and presents it to users in their won personalized headline news channel. The startup believes that there is so little time to see what is going on globally and so it shows the users today’s top news stories to ensure that they stay on top of what matters most.

Users can track the topics which matter to them. Haystack TV identifies trending topics around the globe and allows the users to add them to their favorites so that they can maintain a track of the topic and they can learn about the users.

Haystack TV has multiple channels so that users can navigate across the world, sports, entertainment and much more. Users can also simply switch to the Haystack TV’s late night channel for a nighttime laugh.

You can watch I everywhere, it is also available on mobile devices as well as in the comfort of your home with the support for Apple TV and Chromecast.

How much Haystack TV was funded?

Haystack TV has raised $1.7M in Seed funding on April 7th, 2015 from Peter Kellner, Larry Braitman, Inspovation Ventures, StartX, SGH CAPITAL and DeltaG Ventures.

What is next for Haystack TV?

The startup  plans to use the latest fund to double its team of four to eight, and continue  to improve its personalization technology. Recently the company has been having discussions with local news stations and news publishers for establishing partnerships which could expand its content selection more.

More about Haystack TV

Haystack TV was founded by Daniel Barreto and Ish Harshawat. It has its headquarters in Redwood City, CA. Haystack TV is a news aggregator combined with personalization technology which provides a customized feed of news stories which has the news which important for every person to know as well as the stories which are utmost interesting to a person.