GiftCards.com, one of the top gift card websites, has acquired a startup called Giftly. The terms of the acquisition was undisclosed. Based in San Francisco, California, Giftly lets users send gift credits to recipients based on their location when redeeming a gift rather than issuing plastic cards.
Flatiron Health is an intelligent oncology data platform that has raised $8 million in Series A funding led by Google Ventures. First Round Capital, Laboratory Corporation of America, Great Oaks Capital, The Social+Capital Partnership, SV Angel, IA Ventures and several angel investors participated in this round. Angel investors that participated in this round include Chris Dixon, Jared Hecht, Ken Fox, Aaron Levie, Jack Abraham, David Tisch, and Ed Zimmerman. Google Ventures general partner Dr. Krishna Yeshwant is joining Flatiron’s board.
NuORDER is a Los Angeles-based startup that is revamping the wholesale fashion business. NuORDER Has raised $3 million led by GRP Partners, Greycroft, Aileen Lee, David Tisch, Creative Artists Agency, Brian Spaley, Mortimer Singer, and Rachel Zoe.
9GAG is a meme website that competes against websites like KnowYourMeme and Quickmeme. 9GAG, a company that participated in Dave McClure’s 500 Startups incubator, has raised $2.8 million from Silicon Valley investors like True Ventures, Freestyle Capital, Greycroft Partners, 500 Startups, Scott Banister, Chris Sacca, David Tisch, Kevin Rose, Tim Ferriss, Gary Vaynerchuk, Ben Ling, Karl Jacob, James Hong, Philip Kaplan, and several others. The Hong Kong-based 9GAG has 70 million global unique visitors and over a billion page views per month. [AllThingsD]
AOL has acquired Hipster and their five-person team will be working at the company’s mobile team in Palo Alto, California. They will be reporting to Sol Lipman. Hipster CEO Doug Ludlow will be the director of mobile product management. Hipster will not be shut down.
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TechStars and Bloomberg TV have partnered to work on a reality show that highlights what it is like to be on the founding team of a start-up. The reality show miniseries is called “TechStars” and it will premier on September 13th at 9PM. About 6 episodes will run through October 18th. Eleven start-ups will be highlighted in this season which includes OnSwipe, Immersive Labs, Veri, ToVieFor, Shelby.tv, RedRover, Nestio, ShuttleCloud, CrowdTwist, FriendsList, and ThinkNear.
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Fab.com is a social network for gay men that used to be known as Fabulis. Fab.com has raised $8 million in Series A funding.
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Startup Nestio has raised $750,000 to expand their apartment-hunting app. TechCrunch reports that the funding comes from Quotidian Ventures, Joanne Wilson, Rick Webb, Josh Auerbach and David Tisch. Nestio’s services are currently only available for users looking for apartments in NYC, but the company plans to use the new funding to add new features and additional cities to the app. Nestio is currently available on the web and as an iPhone app.
