Upworthy, a video focused news site, has raised $8 million in Series A funding led by Spark Capital, along with Catamount Ventures, Uprising, and the Knight Foundation.

Upworthy provides a powerful new way to discover and share content, ideas, and messages about stuff that matters on social media networks and around the web. We're starting out with a heavy focus on curation - finding and sharing the best important stuff that the Internet generates each day.