Last week’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news:
Mobile
Mobilewalla Raises $4 Million From Early Amazon Investor Madrona & Others To Bring Quantcast-like Audience Measurement To Mobile (via TechCrunch)
Mobile Messaging App Relay Raises $700,000 To Share Web Videos And Animated Images With Friends (via TechCrunch)
Weendy, An Extreme Sports App That Merges Crowdsourced And Actual Weather Data, Gets $240K Led By Archimedes (via TechCrunch)
Vimeo acquires GIF-making app Echograph to challenge Vine & Cinemagram (via VentureBeat)
Mobile Video Startup Vuclip Buys Jigsee To Target Emerging Markets With Apps (via TechCrunch)
Leanplum Secures $825K in Seed Funding to Make Optimizing Mobile Applications Simple (via company blog)
Advertising/Marketing
Alphabird Acquires Sydney-based Volt Media
Self-service social video platform Virool raises $6M (via VatorNews)
Marketing platform Bislr nabs $3.5M to help SMBs tone down the crazy (via VentureBeat)
Persado Raises $15 Million Round Led by Bain Capital Ventures
KnexxLocal Raises $1.1M In Seed Funding, Launches Instamonial App For Local, Word-Of-Mouth Marketing (via TechCrunch)
Finance/Investment
Microfinance software provider Mambu secures $2 million Series A funding to expand globally (via The Next Web)
Magma Venture Partners Completes $100M+ Third Fund Fundraising — Taking Its Total Fund Size To $300M+ (via TechCrunch)
Enterprise
Method Raises $3M Series A To Help It Spread CRM Solution Beyond QuickBooks To Other Accounting Platforms (via TechCrunch)
Rally Software Buys Flowdock, A Real-Time Social Collaboration Hub For Developers (via TechCrunch)
Cambridge software company Infinio raises $10m in Series A funding (via Boston.com)
Nomi Raises $3M To Help Retailers Understand Their Customers, Online And Offline (via TechCrunch)
Russia’s Gruzobzor Raises $1M For Its B2B Platform For The Transportation Industry (via TechCrunch)
Web/Content
SideCar picks up Austin-based ride sharing startup Heyride just in time for SXSW (via VentureBeat)
Plympton Acquires Serial Fiction Pioneer DailyLit (via BetaBeat)
IT/Security
Nok Nok gets $15M to use your device’s hardware to identify you (via VentureBeat)
HR
GroupTalent Grabs $1M From Founders Co-Op, Menlo & Others To Help Businesses Connect With Top Technical Talent (via TechCrunch)
Commerce
Bombfell Closes $730,000 in Seed Funding, Will Use Proceeds to Buy C.A.R.S. (via company blog)
Backed By $1.3M, Social Commerce Startup Getonic Looks Beyond F-Commerce, With ~5,000 SMBs, 15 Corporates Signed Up To Sell (via TechCrunch)
Storenvy Goes From Getting Kicked Out Of YC To Raising A $5M Round (via TechCrunch)
Livrada Adds $1M, Launches Platform for Authors to Sell Ebook Gift Cards (via Betakit)
