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Today's funding stories:

Houzz gets $165M

Home remodeling is big business, as the recent Pro.com and Porch.com fundings have shown us. Today, home inspiration site Houzz announced that it has raised a massive $165 million in new funding as it continues to expand, valuing the company at $2.3 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal. The company is also launching a beta version of an online store, Houzz Marketplace.

StoreDot grabs $42M

StoreDot, a company that uses bio-organic technology to make ultrafast charging batteries, has just raised $42 million in new funding. StoreDot has discovered self-assembling nanodots from organic materials that can be used to make a new kind of battery. The company first showed off its prototype last April and will now use the new funding to further refine and commercialize its battery technology, beef up its teams, and begin developing new products in its new research facility in Herzliya, Israel.

Tile scoops up $13M

Tile is the little tracker that gave every forgetful person hope that they could find keys and wallets as easily as “Find my iPhone” turns up their phones. And after shipping more than 300,000 devices since it began in May (that’s a lot of lost keys), the company is now announcing $13 million in funding from a long list of investors.

Pica8 raises $12M

Pica8, a startup that sells networking switches for data centers running the emerging OpenFlow networking protocol, said today that it has raised $12 million in funding. Cross Head, Pacific Venture Partners, and VantagePoint Capital Partners participated. The startup's technology has proven useful for Factual and the University of Illinois; the new money should help Pica8 gear become more pervasive.

Rowl raises $4M

Rowl is a social discovery app that wants to help people find things to do nearby -- fighting the couch potato syndrom -- and it just raised $4 million in new funding. Like other apps on the same quest, Rowl shows you what your friends and people nearby are doing and tries to personalize recommendations based on your interests and location. It also lets you connect friends to make plans. The company raised its funds from former Logitech CEO Jerry Quindlen and current Ingram Industries chairwoman Martha Rivers Ingram. Rowl will use the new funding to continue improving its app.

Wercker lands $2.4M

Wercker, a startup with cloud-based continuous-delivery software for testing application code and then deploying it to cloud infrastructure, has raised a $2.4 million venture round. Notion Capital led the round. Rockstart Accelerator, Shamrock Ventures, Tola Capital, and Vitulum Ventures also participated.

C3DNA scores $2M

The containerization of applications continues to roll along. A new startup called C3DNA, which provides “meta-container technologies” that it says help make Docker-ized applications more manageable, has announced $2 million in seed funding. “We allow [applications] to be deployed and run and associated with their business needs,” CEO and co-founder Paul Camacho told VentureBeat. “We can change the way people distribute and run any application.”

Brewbot nabs $1.5M

Brewbot, the startup known for its personal beer making “robots,” has closed a new $1.5 million round of funding today to make homemade beer as common as brewing a pot of coffee. Brewbot’s personal beer-making machine allows you to brew beer in a variety of flavors and styles. The machine takes care of the many important factors that can affect the taste of a beer, such as temperature, ingredient measurements, brewing duration, and the brew’s volume. Everything is controlled via Brewbot’s smartphone app, which also shows you all the ingredients included for each batch. And Brewbot’s machine will even let you print custom labels to slap onto bottles.

Read more on VentureBeat: Brewbot nabs $1.5M to get more people brewing their own beer

StackEngine launches with $1M

Today marks the launch of a startup called StackEngine. The company is revealing software for managing the use of popular open-source Docker technology for developing and deploying applications. And it’s pulling the covers off a $1 million initial funding round that will help the company get ready to make the software available to all later this year.

Rowl raises $4M

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