This week’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news:
Healthcare
Ginger.io Raises $6.5M To Use Your Smartphone To Track Your Health, Round Led By Khosla (via TechCrunch)
Marketing/Advertising
London-Based Social Media Marketing Platform, Footfall123, Raises £1.7M Series A; Backers Include Samos, Venrex (via TechCrunch)
Plyfe Brings Its Brand-Promoting Games To Mobile, Raises $750K (via TechCrunch)
Commerce
TicketForEvent Raises $3M From New VC Abele Ventures To Take On Eventbrite and Cvent In Online Ticketing In Europe (via TechCrunch)
nomorerack Secures $12M in Series A Funding from Leading Investors
Google’s acquisition of BufferBox could mean never waiting for the delivery man again (via VentureBeat)
Meal delivery service Fresh Dish launches with $500K (via VatorNews)
Mobile
Cinemagram Raises $8.5M Led by Menlo Ventures (via AllThingsD)
Web/Content
Perch launches with simple, ambient video communication for families or teams, scores $1M in seed funding (via VentureBeat)
PowerInbox merges with its biggest competitor, gets $10M (via VentureBeat)
Mindwork Labs Raises $1.6M From Mark Pearson For Its Publisher Monetization Platform; Acquires Premier Content Links (via TechCrunch)
Obvious-Incubated Lift Lands $2.5M From Spark Capital, SV Angel To Help You Build Good Habits (via TechCrunch)
In-home personal training platform Wello snags $1M (via VatorNews)
Pass Go and collect $16M: Zillow acquires real estate marketplace HotPads (via VentureBeat)
Veenome Raises Another $600K To Translate Video Content Into Machine-Readable Data (via TechCrunch)
Stray Boots gets $2M for self-guided scavenger hunts (via VatorNews)
Social Media
Nitrogram Raises $1M To Mine The Growing Instagram Eco-System For Businesses (via TechCrunch)
LeadSift Raises $500K, Helps Find Relevant Leads Through Social Media (via SocialNewsDaily)
Crowdfunded
Wefunder Raises $500K To Help Unaccredited Investors Put Money Into Startups (via TechCrunch)
Enterprise
Deal Management Startup CapLinked Raises $1.6M From FF Angel, 500 Startups, Others (via TechCrunch)
Cloud
Cloud emailing provider Mailjet picks up $3.3m for growth (via gigaom)
OwnCloud, the open-source challenger to Box, nets $2.5M (via VentureBeat)
