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Don't Miss Funding and Acquisition News from CrunchBase As a member of the TechCrunch community we know you're familiar with CrunchBase, the most comprehensive startup database in the world, so we wanted to introduce you to CrunchBase newsletters which are full of valuable data including daily funding news, acquisition alerts, startup events, and more. Check out today's content below and sign up now to get tomorrow's news delivered to your inbox. Subscribe to CrunchBase Newsletters   October 03, 2013 Mountain View-based mobile app search engine Quixey has closed a $50 million Series C funding round led by Chinese ecommerce company Alibaba with participation from new investor GGV Capital and existing investors Innovation Endeavors, TransLink Capital, U.S. Venture Partners, Atlantic Bridge, and WI Harper. Quixey powers app search for major manufacturers, carriers, search engines, and web apps around the world, including Sprint and Ask.com. Founded in 2009, Quixey has raised $74.2 million in funding to date.   Israeli influencer marketing company Pursway has raised $7.2 million in Series B funding from previous investors Battery Ventures and Globespan Capital Partners. Through its social relationship-mapping database, Pursway improves customer acquisition, cross-sell and retention for businesses. Founded in 2005, Pursway has now raised over $13 million in funding.   Canadian next-gen retail startup Tulip Retail has raised $2.4 million in seed funding led by SoftTech VC with Founder Collective, BoxGroup, Lerer Ventures, iNovia, Promus Ventures, KIMA Ventures, and others participating. Founded in April of this year, Tulip provides the hardware and software necessary for in-store and online sales to help retailers own multiple channels of retail and provide similar purchasing experiences across stores, websites, and mobile storefronts.   Since the last email, CrunchBase captured more than 52 rounds and $210 million in fundings... and the data keeps rolling in. Share With:   Top Funding Rounds Quixey App Search Engine $50MM / Series-C Founders — Liron Shapira Tomer Kagan Investors — US Venture Partners GGV Capital Innovation Endeavors WI Harper Group Atlantic Bridge Translink Capital Alibaba Pursway $7.2MM / Series-B Founders — Guy Gildor Ran Shaul Investors — Battery Ventures Globespan Capital Partners Tulip Retail Next-gen Retail $2.4MM / Seed Founders — Ali Asaria Investors — Founder Collective Lerer Ventures SoftTech VC Kima Ventures iNovia Capital Matt Mullenweg Promus Ventures BoxGroup Greg Kidd BufferBox Jemstep Online Investment Advisor $4.5MM / Series-A Founders — Kevin Cimring Matthew Rennie Michael Blumenthal Investors — Caleo Capital OneLogin Identity and Access Management $13MM / Series-B Founders — Christian Pedersen Thomas B. Pedersen Investors — The Social+Capital Partnership Narrative Swedish lifelogging startup $3.0MM / Seed Investors — True Ventures CardFlight Mobile Payments SDK $1.6MM / Seed Founders — Derek Webster Tim Saunders Investors — Plug & Play Ventures ff Venture Capital Great Oaks Venture Capital Payment Ventures Apostolos Apostolakis UpCounsel Online workplace for legal services $1.5MM / Seed Founders — Mason Blake Matt Faustman Investors — SV Angel Collaborative Fund Bobby Yazdani Homebrew Haroon Mokhtarzada Koality $1.8MM / Seed Founders — Brian Bland Jonathan Chu Jordan Potter Investors — Index Ventures Felicis Ventures Webb Investment Network FF Angel LLC Raymond Tonsing UJ Ventures Kris Duggan Tien Tzuo Stuffle mobile flea market $1.0MM / Series-B Investors — Heiko Hubertz Tivola Ventures Leverate Media Mehrdad Piroozram Tim Schumacher SimplyInsured Health Insurance Comparison Shopping $750K / Seed Founders — Bob Aspell Vivek Shah Investors — Y Combinator Sam Melamed Matt Huang Altair Capital Jake Gibson Tim Chen Waseem Daher Jeff Arnold Amee Chaudry Adil Chaudry More Fundings (41)   Top Acquisitions Flutter acquired by Google for $40MM Software Xtreme Labs acquired by Pivotal for $65MM Software Ronin acquired by GoDaddy Software Runa acquired by Staples Advertising Notify Technology acquired by Globo for $5.0MM Mobile/Wireless More Acquisitions (7)   Did we miss anything? CrunchBase had 4851 edits since our last email and sometimes that isn't enough to catch everything that goes on. Sign up for CrunchBase and help us make things more awesome! Contribute to CrunchBase   If you would no longer like to receive email from CrunchBase, you can unsubscribe with one click here.   410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 © 2013 AOL Inc. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy Terms of Service

Top Stories of the Day // October 3, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // Oct 3, 2013 Darrell Etherington Snapchat Gets Its Own Timeline With Snapchat Stories, 24-Hour Photo & Video Tales A new update for Snapchat that just rolled out adds an option to create Snapchat Stories, a new type of sharing for the temporary social network which allows... read more Matthew Panzarino Amazon's Smartphones Detailed: 'Project Smith' 3D Flagship Model And A Value Handset With FireOS read more Ingrid Lunden Google Acquires YC-Backed Flutter, A Gesture Recognition Technology Startup, For Around $40M Google's Glass, Android and other products may soon be picking up more Kinect-style gesture features: the company has bought Flutter, a Y Combinator-backed... read more Rip Empson Veteran Travel Search Engine Skyscanner Lands "One Of Largest" Sequoia Investments To Date At $800M Valuation read more Kim-Mai Cutler Cue, The Startup Formerly Known As Greplin, Shuts Down Its App read more Darrell Etherington Chrome For iOS Bug Shows Private Browsing Search History In Google Mobile Search Bar A new update for Chrome for iOS adds iOS 7 support, but there's also a big flaw as discovered by UK development and design firm Parallax. It turns out that when... read more Jordan Crook With An Eye On Revenue, Snapchat "Experiments" With A Click-To-Buy Button Snapchat founder and CEO Evan Spiegel has kept quiet about how Stories, the app's new 24-hour timeline play, might turn into a monetization route. However, the... read more TOP VIDEOS Raleigh-Based Team Aims To Make Shoes That Will Last You For LYF Aly and Beth Khalifa have a vision: to "establish the new cutting edge of sustainability." They're doing it by... read more Dell Tries To Crack The Android Tablet Code (Again) With The Venue 7 & 8 Dell rounded up a slew of journalists in New York today to show off a number of new gadgets -- including some shiny... read more TC Cribs: ModCloth, Where Playing Dress-Up Is All In A Day's Work It's not often that visiting a tech startup makes you want to amp up your wardrobe. But that's exactly the feeling... read more Get more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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Top Stories of the Day // October 2, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // Oct 2, 2013 Matthew Panzarino Apple Says Small Fraction Of iMessage Users Having Issues And It's Working On A Fix read more Sarah Perez It's Over For Paid Apps, With A Few Exceptions Is it over for paid mobile apps? That's the general thinking these days, as the App Stores fill up with "good enough" alternatives to paid apps, while major... read more Alexia Tsotsis Monsanto Buys Weather Big Data Company Climate Corporation For Around $1.1B read more Romain Dillet Is Bitcoin The New Euro? Originally dubbed 'the single currency,' the euro has been around for a decade and in the work for two decades. At the time, it was something revolutionary, a... read more Alex "WarHorse" Wilhelm Three Top Microsoft Investors Allegedly Want Bill Gates To Step Down As Chairman According to Reuters, three of Microsoft's top 20 investors are making noise that Microsoft remove its founder and former CEO Bill Gates from its board of... read more Darrell Etherington iPad Mini With Retina Display To Be In Short Supply At Launch, Reuters Reports Apple is rumored to be planning the rollout of new iPads in time for the holidays, and there are a couple different models potentially in the pipeline,... read more Natasha Lomas The Much-Hyped 3D Printer Market Is Entering A New Growth Phase, Says Gartner 3D printing remains a nascent market, despite high levels of hype around the technology's potential. The latter may be a little overblown but there's no... read more TOP VIDEOS littleBits' Exploration Kits Will Make You Think Differently About Building Hardware Whole worlds have been built out of LEGO and K'Nex and Meccano and a seemingly endless supply of childhood wonder,... read more Keen On… Why MessageMe Might Be The Future Of Real-Time Communications Ali Rosenthal joined Facebook back in early 2006, when it was a 50 person startup with 4 million users and she... read more In Italy, Uber Launches Free WiFi In Cars With WiMan Uber, the company that makes hailing a car and paying for it as easy as dropping a pin on a smartphone, has recently... read more Get more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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Top Stories of the Day // October 1, 2013

	Today's Top Stories // Oct 1, 2013 Jordan Crook Taking First Steps Into Monetization, Viber Messaging App Announces A Sticker Market read more Matt Burns GoPro Releases The Smaller, Faster Hero3+ Action Camera Just when you thought GoPros couldn't get any smaller, meet the Hero3+. The new model is 20 percent smaller than its predecessor and packs some much-improved... read more Alex Williams Salesforce Is A Platform Company. Period. You can bet what would have happened if Salesforce.com had not focused on becoming more of a platform company than a CRM provider. It would have faced a market... read more John Biggs Watch Startup Bathys Creates An Atomic Clock For Your Wrist While this watch may look goofy as all get-out, rest assured it holds an important spot in the history of timekeeping. It is one of the first "atomic" clocks... read more Chris Velazco FreedomPop Takes Aim At Carriers With Its New, Free Phone Plan Is your cell phone bill too expensive? So is mine. Wireless data startup FreedomPop has been trying to tackle that little financial truth for the better part of... read more Alex "WarHorse" Wilhelm With Weak Back-To-School Sales, The PC Market Is Now Microsoft's To Save Splat. That's the sound the PC market just made. According to Sterne Agee analyst Vijay Rakesh, back-to-school computer sales were "virtually absent." Put in... read more Anthony Ha With HarperCollins Deal, Scribd Unveils Its Bid To Become The Netflix For Books The latest company making a bid to bring the subscription model to the book world is one that may already be familiar to TechCrunch readers — social... read more TOP VIDEOS Interlude Lets You, The Viewer, Decide The Outcome Of A Video With Treehouse Launch If you have a human, emotional heart, chances are you’ve felt an intense longing to change the outcome of... read more Google Fiber Compared To Broadband By Putting A Middle Age Guy In A Bath Robe And Soaking Him With A Firehose Provo, Utah is getting Google Fiber in the next few months. So how do you explain to the people of this small city... read more CrunchWeek: Microsoft's New Surface 2, BlackBerry's $4.7B Buyout, Big Changes In Fundraising Happy Saturday! It's time once again for a new episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few of us writers... read more Get more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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