Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news:
Devices/Gadgets
Google invests in the connected kitchen (via GigaOm)
Commerce
Online Marketplace For Luxury Clothes And Goods Shop-Hers Raises $3.5M From Floodgate, Bono And Others (via TechCrunch)
PayPal invests in Loop Commerce (via company blog)
Gaming
nWay Raises $5M To Build Out ChronoBlade MMO Game (via TechCrunch)
Networks
Sequoia invests $33M in secretive networking startup Viptela (via VentureBeat)
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