Today’s technology early-stage funding and acquisitions news roundup:
Ecommerce
Monthly kids clothing club Wittlebee lands $2.5 million in funding. Investors include Rincon, SoftTech, Google Ventures, Matt Coffin, CrossLink, and Morado. (full story via AllThingsD)
Web/Content
Just in time for baseball season, daily fantasy sports games site DraftDay raises $875K in initial investment from Lightbank. (full story via VentureBeat)
Gaming
German mobile games startup Flaregames has secured $2.63 million second round of investment from Deutsche Telecom’s investment branch. The funding deal is especially significant because it includes a marketing cooperation agreement where the companies will work together to promote and market games. (see StartUp Beat’s recent Q&A with Flaregames co-founder and CEO Klaas Kersting following its first round of funding) (see full story via VentureBeat)
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