The Instagram Of Social Publishing? Belgian Checkthis Moves To NYC, Gets A $910k Seed Round From Lerer, SV Angel, Index + More

Twitter may be synonymous with the term "microblogging" but a new service launching in beta today brings a new chapter for the medium that could just find a niche in today's distracted, busy world. Checkthis, a site dedicated to letting users create one-off, visually slick blog posts and other kinds of single-purpose web-content, is today announcing several bits of big news: the launch of a public beta, seed funding of $910,000 led by Lerer Ventures, a list of advisors that includes a design honcho from Instagram, and a relocation to New York from Belgium to better tackle the (distracted, busy) market of the U.S. The list of investors and advisors is a strong one and says a lot about the company's ambitions: in addition to lead investor Lerer, backers include SV Angel, Index Ventures, Betaworks, Seedcamp and angel investors Taavet Hinrikus (early Skype employee; founder of TransferWise) and GroupMe co-founders Jared Hecht and Steve Martocci. Among its advisors are Tim Van Damme from Instagram,?Fran?ois de Halleux from Google, and Robin Wauters (formerly of this very blog, and now at The Next Web).

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