This week’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news:
Mobile
OpenTable chows down on Foodspotting for $10M (via VentureBeat)
365Scores Secures $1.2M Series A Round, Puts Out Improved iOS/Android App (via TechCrunch)
Twitter Acquires Mobile Crash-Reporting Tool Crashlytics, Development Of The Product Will Continue “Unabated” (via TechCrunch)
Web/Content
Sequoia And Qualcomm Put $1 Million+ Into Dexetra, Makers Of Friday, The Search Engine For Your Life (via TechCrunch)
Insurance Zebra raises $1.5 million and moves headquarters from Pittsburgh to Austin (via Austin American-Statesman)
With 4,500 Daily Meetings, Zoom.us Adds $6M & Debuts New Videoconferencing Plans (via BetaKit)
Gaming
Open Source Gaming Backend OpenKit Plans Private Beta Launch Tomorrow, Raises Another $100K (via TechCrunch)
Digit raises US$2.5m led by Delta Partners to launch “Seamlessly Cross-Platform” games (press release)
Enterprise/IT
PagerDuty Inks $10.7M (press release)
Finance/Investment
Amplify Partners launches with $40M IT infrastructure fund (via VentureBeat)
Cloud
After A Successful Kickstarter Campaign, Connected Data Raises $6M For Its Transporter Secure Cloud Storage Device (via TechCrunch)
Advertsing/Marketing
Glow Digital Media Raises $1.3M Seed Funding (via DigitalMediaWire)
Healthcare
Ringadoc secures $1.2 million in seed funding (press release)
Seattle’s FlexMinder Raises $1.4M (press release)
Education
Educational technology company Pluto Media raises $500K in seed funding (via VentureBeat)
Enterprise
Convercent Adds $10.2M (company press release)
FarmLogs yields $1M in seed funding (via VentureBeat)
Commerce
Stuffle Raises €500K To Put The Heat On Shpock As The Flea Market App Race Gathers Pace In Europe (via TechCrunch)
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