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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