Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news, from around the web:
Mobile
Moxtra Accelerates Position in Mobile Content Collaboration Space, Secures $10M in First Round of Funding (via company press release)
Content/Video
In Its First Acquisition, StumbleUpon Buys Video Recommendation Startup 5by (via TechCrunch)
Domains
TechStars buys NameLayer to save its startups from awful domain names (via VentureBeat)
Marketing
Snaps Grabs $2.25M from Steve Kantor, Others, & Gets Bostonian Prez (via Xconomy)
Visualead Raises $1.6 Million Series A to Help SMBs Increase ROI on Offline Marketing Initiatives (via company press release)
Commerce
FormaFina, A Fab For The New Rich Of South America, Raises $1.4M (via TechCrunch)
Financiers/Funders
New $6 million investment fund Rampersand launches (via Startup Smart)
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