News Startup Informed Taps Financial Times’s Barber to Guide App
- VCs HV and 468 contribute 5 million euros in seed funding
- Berlin-based startup offers human curation of news content
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A news startup that will offer consumers a human-curated content feed has raised seed financing and appointed an advisory board of former media leaders to help it develop and expand before its app launches later this year.
Berlin-based Informed has recruited former Financial Times editor Lionel Barber, former Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth, and former Economist editor-in-chief Bill Emmott to its advisory board, according to a statement. It received a total of 5 million euros ($5.4 million) from venture capital firms HV Capital and 468 Capital.