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News startup Hubdub scores £800k investment: what downturn? More good news for the UK startup community this afternoon with confirmation that Edinburgh-based news prediction site Hubdub has raised £810,000 in funding from a mix of angel investors, software venture firm Pentech and the Scottish Co-Investment Fund.
Hubdub, as profiled by us in February last year, has grown to six full-time staff and six part-time and claims 250,000 unique users each month, with 70% of those in the US. The news prediction tool already has some hardened addicts and has signed some impressive partners including the Huffington Post, Reuters and the Independent. One Hudbubber in Miami is already a 'Hubdub millionaire', though that credit exists purely in kudos on the site. It pays to predict the future... Hubdub staffers Nigel Eccles, Lesley Eccles, Chris Stafford, Tom Griffiths and Rob Jones.