Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news:
Data
BIME RAISES $4 MILLION IN SERIES A FINANCING (via company press release)
Real Estate
Lovely’s Rentmatic acquisition furthers goal of being full-service rental platform (InmanNews)
Commerce
Mobile payments service Boku focuses on Asia after buying India’s Qubecell in first-ever acquisition (via TheNextWeb)
The Kayak For Local Services, Centzy Rebrands As Locality And Raises $4.3M From Matrix Partners (via TechCrunch)
Appear Here, The UK Pop-Up Shop And Short-Term Retail Space Marketplace, Raises £1 Million (via TechCrunch)
Mobile
TextPride scores $1M to bring branded emojis and stickers to mobile apps (via VentureBeat)
Education
With $2.4M From Atlas, 500 Startups & More, Colingo’s Live Online School Aspires To Teach The World English (via TechCrunch)
Financiers/Funds
Women-led VC firm Illuminate raises $20M fund (via VentureBeat)
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