Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news:
Web/Content
OwnerListens, new twist on local business reviews that allows customers to send anonymous messages to local merchants and enables the owner to respond via SMS, has landed $1.1 million in Seed funding. Investors include Menlo Ventures, Promus Ventures, Commerce Ventures and Subtraction Capital. The idea was hatched at local Palo Alto restaurant called Oren’s Hummus (and the restaurant’s owner is an OwnerListens co-founder), according to TechCrunch.
Mobile
Task management app Any.DO has raised $3.5 million in Seed funding from investors that include Genesis Partners, Innovation Endeavors, Blumberg Capital, Joe Lonsdale and Joe Greenstein. The San Francisco–based startup was founded in 2010 and raised $1 million in Angel funding in November of 2011. Here’s more on the new funding, from GigaOm.
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Compiled by StartUp Beat editor Brian Kovalesky.
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