Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news:
Location/Mapping
what3words Raises $500K Seed For Its Location-Pinpointing Push To Reinvent Postcodes (via TechCrunch)
Social
EFAMILY COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF ORIGAMI LABS’ SOFTWARE PLATFORM (via eFamily company blog)
Commerce
Granify Announces Seed Funding from Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures, iNovia Capital, Klass Capital, BDC and others (via company press release)
Zoomingo Raises $1.25 Million For Its Mobile Deal-Finding App, Made For Mall Shoppers (via TechCrunch)
Mobile
Appboy raises USD7.6 million in Series A funding to expand business to mobile (via International Venture Capital Post) (See Appboy’s Pitch on StartUp Beat from last fall)
GeoPoll launches with $6.6m series A funding (via Research Magazine)
Robotics
CyPhy gets $7M to build ‘unjammable’ flying robots (via VentureBeat)
Content/Music
Listn, the social music app that combines Rdio, Spotify, iTunes, and YouTube, lands $500K (via VentureBeat)
Gaming
Real-Money Gaming Platform Betable Raises $18.5 Million (via AllThingsD)
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