Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news:
Design/Development
UXPin Picks Up $1.6M Round Led By Freestyle Capital To Democratize Design (via TechCrunch)
Commerce
PRE-COMMERCE PIONEER CELERY RAISES $2M TO LAUNCH NEXT-GENERATION STOREFRONT (via company blog)
Easy Social Shop Nabs $1.1M To Help Online Merchants Integrate With Facebook (via TechCrunch)
Social Shopping Fashion Q&A Platform, Motilo, Bags Another $2.5M For Expansion & Marketing (via TechCrunch)
Mobile
Apportable gets $5M for iOS to Android interoperability (via VatorNews)
Dónde Raises A Million For A Smarter Mobile Store Locator That Tells You Where Products Are Located (via TechCrunch)
Education
Baltimore Edtech Startup Citelighter Raises $1.5M (In The Capital)
Boxer acquihires Android app startup Enhanced Email (via VentureBeat)
Data
ThoughtSpot gets $10.7M to search for trends in companies’ data (via VentureBeat)
Financiers/Funds
Sherpa Ventures Closes On $87 Million Of $150 Million Fund (via TechCrunch)
DFJ Raises $325M For Eleventh Early Stage-Fund, Tim Draper And John Fisher Will Not be Investing Partners In Fund (via TechCrunch)
Content/Publishing
FarFaria Raises $3.25M To Bring Children’s Books To The iPad (And Eventually Other Devices) (via TechCrunch)
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