This week’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news:
Finance/Investment
Redpoint Ventures raises $400 million fund for early-stage investments (via gigaom)
Web/Content
ChowNow raises $3 million to give restaurants quick, easy online and mobile tools (via VentureBeat)
Tred Gets $1.7M To Be An Uber For Car Test Drives (via TechCrunch)
Social TV Startup Kwarter Raises $4 Million To Help Broadcasters And Brands Build Second-Screen Apps (via TechCrunch)
Rocket Lawyer Acquires LawPivot To Add A Quora-Like Q&A Platform To Online Legal Services Site (via TechCrunch)
HR
InternMatch Raises $1.2 Million To Expand Beyond Internships To Include Paying Jobs, Is Thinking About Rebranding (via TechCrunch)
Commerce
JustFab Acquires Subscription-Based Kids Clothing Service FabKids (via TechCrunch)
Zirtual Raises Financing from Tony Hsieh, LasVegas Tech Fund and Mayfield Fund
Healthcare
Flatiron Health Raises $8 Million from Google Ventures, First Round Capital and LabCorp
Crowdfunded
The world’s thinnest watch — the anti-Pebble — has now raised over $500K on Kickstarter (via VentureBeat)
Data
DARPA-Backed Ayasdi Launches With $10M From Khosla, Floodgate To Uncover The Hidden Value In Big Data (via TechCrunch)
Mobile
Here’s why AppGratis raises $13,5M Series A with Iris Capital & the Orange Publicis fund (via AppGratis company blog)
Advertising/Marketing
Going Beyond Pinterest: 500 Startups And Others Back Visual Advertising Platform Reachli (via TechCrunch)
Fanplayr Raises $2M Seed Round To Help More eCommerce Sites Upsell Like Amazon (via TechCrunch)
Tongal’s site for crowdsourced ad videos raises $15M (via VentureBeat)
Enterprise
NextSpace Raises $825K To Fund More Coworking Communities (via TechCrunch)
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