Funding roundup – week ending 04/15/11

Seed

Bamboom Labs, provider of tech to allow consumers access to live TV over the Internet, raised $4.5 million of seed funding led by FirstMark Capital.

Flud, a personalized mobile news reader for iPhone and iPad, raised $1 million in seed funding from several notable angel investors.

Metabar, a free platform that automates the process of creating browser-based applications raised a $1 million seed round from Runa Capital.

Early-stage

BookingBug, an online scheduling, booking, reservation and appointment system for business, raised $350,000 from a small group of angels.

Cloudwords, connecting translation vendors with content owners, raised $3 million in Series A funding from several Salesforce executives and founders, including CEO Marc Benioff, founding CTO Dave Moellenhoff, current CTO Craig Weissman.

Industrial lighting solution provider Digital Lumens closed a $10 million Series B round that was raised from all of the company’s previous investors: Black Coral Capital, Flybridge Capital Partners, and Stata Venture Partners.

Instructure, provider of an open-source learning management system (LMS) called Canvas, closed $8 million in a Series B round of financing led by OpenView.

Tiny Speck, developer of a massively multiplayer online game called Glitch, secured a $10.7 million Series B round of funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Accel Partners, the company’s original investors.

OpenBuildings raised $2 million in a Series A round from BlueRun Ventures and Index Ventures.

Scoutmob, a location-based group deals company, secured a first round of funding for $1.5 million.

Stealth startup Project Slice secured a $3.8 million round of funding to continue working on simplifying online shopping, according to an SEC filing.

Stylistpick, a personalized women’s fashion e-commerce site,  secured £5 million ($8 million) in a Series A round co-led by Accel Partners and Index Ventures.

Txteagle, a text-based advertising platform, raised an $8.5 million Series A round led by Spark Capital.

Zencoder, a video encoding and transcoding SaaS provider, raised $2 million in funding from a long list of investors.

Late-stage

Currensee, an alternative investment service that gives investors unique access to the world currency markets, secured $4 million as Series C financing from North Bridge Venture Partners, Egan-Managed Capital and Vernon & Park Capital.

KupiVIP.ru, a Russian-based private online shopping club, raised $55 million from new and old investors.

Chinese group buying site Lashou closed a $110 million Series C funding round led by Mileston Capital, with participation from Richemont’s affiliates Reinet Fund SCA FIS, Remgro Limited, and previous investors.

Social shopping service Lockerz closed $30 million of a planned $45 million round, according to an SEC filing.

MarketShare, a cross-media analytics company for marketers around the world, raised a $32 million follow-on investment by Elevation Partners.

French game publisher Mediastay secured a €15 million ($21.5 million) investment from Iris Capital and Idinvest Partners (formerly AGF Private Equity).

Mobile payments proviedr Payfone closed a $19 million funding round from American Express, the largest contributor, with participation from Verizon Investments Inc. (assisted by Verizon Ventures) and others.

Sugar Inc., a media company for women, completed a $15 million later-stage round of financing led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) with participation from previous investor Sequoia Capital.

Video search engine VideoSurf raised $16 million in Series C financing.