This week’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news:
Web/Content
Office space search engine 42Floors lands in NYC with $5M in new funding (via gigaom)
Backed By $2 Million In Funding From Learn Capital, Kapor, 500 Startups, Bruno Mars & Others, Chromatik’s Digital Music Platform Goes Live (via TechCrunch)
Going beyond comics: Tapastic nabs $750k to bring a Zynga-inspired revolution to visual story reading (via TheNextWeb)
Mobile
SlickFlick Lands Seed Round To Let Users Hollywood-ize Their Photos (via TechCrunch)
The Kive Company Raises $500K To Help Parents Save Their Kids’ Art (via TechCrunch)
Sync.ME Closes $4M In Funding To Scale Up Its Social Contact Syncing iOS App (via TechCrunch)
121cast Raises $250K To Accelerate Development Of SoundGecko, A Personalized Audio Book For The Internet (via TechCrunch)
Mobile texting app invi launches on Android, raises $750,000 in seed funding (via TheNextWeb)
French digital newsstand lekiosk secures $7.1m (via MobileEntertainment)
Commerce
NuORDER, the Leading Fashion Wholesale Platform, Announces Series A Financing Led by GRP
Click A Taxi raises second round, extends service across Europe (via tnooz)
Y Combinator-Backed Balanced Raises $1.4M To Provide A Payment Platform For Peer-To-Peer Marketplaces (via TechCrunch)
TaskRabbit Acquires Kids’ Clothing Startup One Jackson To Add Marketplace Expertise (via TechCrunch)
Games
$1.3M Seed Round (Lookout Gaming)
TinyTap, A DIY Game Creation App For Kids, Raises $500K Seed Round (via TechCrunch)
Cloud
Cisco gets serious about cloud software with $125M acquisition of Cloupia (via VentureBeat)
Social Media
Tapestry Raises $600K To Help Seniors Stay Connected With Their Family (via TechCrunch)
YC’s Amicus Pulls In $3.2 Million To Bring Social Graph Smarts To Non-Profit Fundraising (via TechCrunch)
Enterprise
Continuuity gets $10M to free Hadoop from itself (via gigaom)
Startup Wise Guys Alumni, VitalFields, Raises €250K For Its Agricultural Early Warning System (via TechCrunch)
Advertising/Marketing
Origami Logic nabs $9.3M to build ‘big data’ tools for marketers (via VentureBeat)
SocialWire Launches Optimized Ads for Facebook, Announces $2m in Investment (via Wamda)
Hands-free: Captive Media unzips $700,000 in seed funding to take pee-powered urinal games to the masses (via TheNextWeb)
GreenTech
SolarReserve pulls in $586M for South African clean-energy projects (via VentureBeat)
Healthcare
Chicago’s Retrofit Raises $8mm Series A Round, Launches Contest (via Forbes)
500 Startups-Backed TenderTree Raises $1.3 Million To Expand Its Marketplace Of In-Home Caregivers (via TechCrunch)
Finance/Investment
Google pledges €1M to Berlin startub hub The Factory (via VentureBeat)
Crowdfunded
Second Quest raises $70K to reimagine Zelda and games through art (via VentureBeat)
