Funding and Acquisitions News: Copious lands $5 million for its social commerce site for women with a dash of personalization

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By Editor July 12, 2012

Today’s technology early-stage funding and acquisitions news roundup:

Commerce

Social Commerce Site Copious Raises $5 Million Series A (via Forbes.com)

Fashion Aggregation FTW: Lyst Picks Up $5M, Now Lists DFJ Esprit As Backer (via TechCrunch)

The Currency Cloud Closes Another $3M To Attack Banks’ Cross-Border Payments Monopoly (via TechCrunch)

More funding and acquisitions news…

Devices

Disruptive: uBeam Lands $750K To Let You Charge Gadgets Without Plugs (via TechCrunch)

Gaming

Google Ventures Leads $5M Investment In Virtual Currency Startup Pocket Change (via TechCrunch)

Web/Content

Poptent Raises $5.5 Million to Support Continued Growth, Surpasses 50,000 Members and $5 Million in Creator Cash Payments

Cloud

Cloudability Raises $8.7 Million Series A Round for Rapid Expansion, Led by Foundry Group

P2P Storage Startup Space Monkey Raises $2.25M Led By Google Ventures And Venture51 (via TechCrunch)

Stealth/Pre-Launch

General Catalyst And Andreessen Horowitz Parlay $4 Million On X-Googler Startup Parlay Labs (via TechCrunch)

Marketing/Advertising

Demand Media Alums Invest $575,000 In iSpot.tv, A Platform For Social Marketing On TV (via TechCrunch)

Healthcare

23andMe Acquires CureTogether, Inc.

Finance/Investment

Mayfield stuffs $365M into its VC warchest in just 3 months (via VentureBeat)