Funding & Acquisitions Newswire: November 13, 2013

Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news:

Content/Publishing

Ezoic Secures $5.6 Million Series A Investment (via company press release)

Travel

Lonely Planet Acquires Mobile Travel App TouristEye (via TechCrunch)

Social

Finnish Sticker-Happy Social Messaging App Jongla Raises Further €1.4 Million (via TechCrunch)

Mobile

Selligy Closes $2.8 Million in Series A Funding Led By DFJ and Releases Mobile CRM Solution for Enterprise Sales (via company press release)

Brian Shin Raises $4.5M for Mustbin, Looks to Mobilize Your Personal Data (via Xconomy)

Singaporean marketplace app Carousell snags $800K funding, sets sights on Malaysia and Indonesia (via Tech in Asia)

Japanese Startup Moneytree(TM) Closes AUD$1.7M Seed Round Funding From Digital Garage and Private Investors (via company press release)

Content/Photos

SCOOPSHOT RAISES $3.9 MILLION SERIES A FUNDING TO TAKE ON-DEMAND MOBILE PHOTOGRAPHY GLOBAL (via company press release)

Cloud

PasswordBox Raises $6M to Help Manage Your Passwords and Keep Them From the NSA (via AllThingsD)

Gaming

Nokia Growth Partners invests $6M in Sweden’s MAG Interactive, maker of Ruzzle (via VentureBeat)

Devices/Gadgets

SmartThings Raises $12.5 Million In Series A Funding (via company press release)

Health/Healthcare

Scanadu Raises $10.5 Million to Help Make Its Medical Tricorder Reality (via AllThingsD)

Enterprise/Software

Estonian Startup Plumbr Raises $1M To Make Memory Leaks A Thing Of The Past (via TechCrunch)

Finance

Decentralized currency exchange Ripple Labs rakes in $3.5M in new funding (via GigaOm)

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