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"Welcome to the latest edition of \u201CTop Funding Stories,\u201D a weekly series where we summarize the big startup funding and investment stories of the week.  \nHere's what caught our attention this week:\nPeel Raises $16.7 Million\nPeel is an iOS app for finding, discovering, and controlling your TV and multimedia. Its creators raised $16.7 million in a Series B round led by Lightspeed Ventures.\nTargeted Mobile Advertising Company JumpTap Nabs $25 Million\nJumptap, a company that specializes in targeted mobile ad technology, has raised a $25 million round from AllianceBernstein, General Catalyst, Redpoint Ventures, Summerhill Ventures, Valhalla Partners, WPP and others.\nY Combinator Startup Grubwithus Secures $1.6 Million\nGrubwithus, a startup aiming to bring strangers together for meals, has secured $1.6 million in funding.  Its investors now include Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, NEA, SV Angel, Ashton Kutcher and Y Combinator, among others.\nFurther News\n\nThe makers of Scrible, a web-based annotation and markup tool, were awarded a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.\nEldarion, a startup specializing in Django and Pinax web development, has raised $500,000 in angel funding.\nFour Rivers Group, Woodside Fund, Menlo Ventures and Tenaya Capital have decided to bet $10 million more on PowerReviews, a platform for social commerce.  That brings the startup's total funding to date to $37 million.\nImage courtesy of iStockphoto, kizilkayaphotos\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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