Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news, from around the web:
Mobile
IBM buys mobile messaging tools provider Xtify Inc (via siliconrepublic)
CardFlight raises $1.6 million in seed-round funding (via Finextra)
Commerce
Tulip Raises $2.4M from SoftTech VC And Others To Provide Connected Online, Mobile And In-Store Software And Hardware To Retailers (via TechCrunch)
Devices/Gadgets
MEMOTO RAISES $3M, SHIPPING IN NOVEMBER UNDER NEW NAME “NARRATIVE CLIP” (via Tech Cocktail)
Enterprise/Cloud
Netskope Raises $21M Out of Stealth : Analytics to Tackle Shadow IT (via SiliconAngle)
Finance
Quantopian Secures $6.7M in Series A Financing From Khosla Ventures and Spark Capital (via company press release)
Software/UI-UX
Google confirms that it has acquired hand gesture interface startup Flutter (via TheNextWeb)
Transit
Zoom raises $1.6M to become the ‘Zipcar of India’ (via VentureBeat)
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