Funding and Acquisitions Roundup: Gumroad generates $1.1 million in funding and considerable buzz for its social media-based sales platform

Today’s technology funding and acquisitions news:

Ecommerce

Gumroad Gets $1.1 Million From Chris Sacca, Max Levchin And Others To Turn Any Link Into A Payment System (via TechCrunch)

Online Art Market Paddle8 Secures Series A Funding of c.$4MM Led by Prominent Technology Investors Founder Collective with Luxury Investors Mousse Partners

Cloud

Nivio nabs $21 million for affordable cloud computing (via VatorNews)

Appcelerator Acquires Cocoafish to Implement Mobile Cloud Services in Titanium (via ReadWriteWeb)

Clusterpoint secures €1m from BaltCap to scale its database for clouds (via TechCrunch Europe)

Web/Content

GigaOM buying ContentNext Media, will pick up paidContent, mocoNews, and other sites (via VentureBeat)

BoardProspects Wants To Help Companies ‘Build Better Boards’, Raises $650,000 (via TechCrunch)

Enterprise

Dassault Systemes Acquires Netvibes

Infogr.am gets HackFwd backing to democratise cool info-graphics (via TechCrunch Europe)