Funding and Acquisitions Roundup: Launched by big names from Hollywood and Silicon Valley, social media management firm theAudience raises $20M

This week’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news:

Social Media

Sean Parker, Ari Emanuel And Oliver Luckett’s theAudience Raises $20M To Help Celebs Navigate Social Media (via TechCrunch)

With Google’s Former Identity Director As CTO And $2M In New Funding, Trulioo Launches Fake Facebook Profile Detector (via TechCrunch)

Social TV consolidation: GetGlue gets bought by Viggle for $25M + stock (via gigaom)

Advertising/Marketing

Social Data Analytics Startup Likely Secures $1.6M To Scale Up Offer For Brands (via TechCrunch)

SocialBro secures €500k angel investment (via Research)

Education

BetterLesson gets $3.5 million from the Gates Foundation to digitize and distribute math curricula (via Boston.com)

Mobile

Mobile app venture biNu adds $4.3 million to money pool (via StartupSmart)

500px Acquires French iOS App Studio Pulpfingers To Beef Up European Presence (via TechCrunch)

Content

YieldKit scores $750,000 Series A from Tim Schumacher and HackFwd to push international expansion (via TheNextWeb)

Canadian Broadcaster Invests $4M in Wantster (via Adotas)

Enterprise

SumAll raises $6M to bring data analytics to small businesses (via gigaom)

Commerce

Garage Comparison Engine Autobutler Secures Seed Capital From Dawn Capital (via TechCrunch)

Backed By $1.1 Million In Funding, Mobee Launches A Mobile Mystery Shopping App Which Rewards Customers For Reviewing Businesses (via TechCrunch)

Freelancer.com Buys Another IT Job Site, vWorker (aka RentACoder.com), For A Price In The Millions (via TechCrunch)

Cloud

Qumulo snags $24.5M to staff up its stealthy storage push (via gigaom)

Mortar Data closes $1.8M seed round for Python-wrapped Hadoop (via gigaom)

Funds

Seed Stage VC Firm O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures Raises $85M New Fund (via TechCrunch)

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