Funding roundup – week ending 07/15/11

Seed-stage

San Francisco-based Astrid raised a seed round of funding, led by Google Ventures and Nexus Venture Partners. Individual investors, such as Jack Herrick, who ran WikiHow and eHow, as well as Nathan Stoll, one of the founders of search engine Aardvark, also participated in the round.

Y Combinator-backed DrChrono, provider of a mobile health records platform, closed a $675K seed round from investors like General Catalyst, Charles River Ventures, 500 Startups, Gmail creator Paul Buchheit and more.

MotherKnows, provider of online medical records for parents, raised $1.7 million in seed funding from First Round Capital, Giza Ventures and others.

Social travel site Tripping.com closed $450,000 of a planned $1 million seed investment round led by Quest Venture Partners (QVP) with participation expected from other “micro-VC” firms and super angels.

Early-stage

The creator of Shortmail, 410 Labs, closed $750,000 in Series A funding from True Ventures, 500 Startups, Fortify Ventures, the Maryland Venture Fund. Additionally, several angel investors and entrepreneurs participated.

Apica, a  load testing and performance-monitoring provider for cloud and mobile applications, closed a $2 million Series B round of financing. Industrifonden led the investment. KTH Chalmers Capital also participated by reinvesting in the company, and ALMI Invest joined as a new investor.

Social rewards and loyalty platform Badgeville raised $12 million in a Series B round of funding led by new investor Norwest Venture Partners and existing investor El Dorado Ventures, with help from Trinity Ventures and Webb Investment Network.

Crittercism, provider of mobile support infrastructure, raised $1.2 million in new funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Google Ventures, Opus Capital, Shasta Ventures and AOL Ventures.

DataSift, a Delaware corporation, today announced a $6 million round of VC funding co-led by IA Ventures and GRP Partners.

Domo, a new SaaS company launched by Omniture co-founder and decade-long CEO Josh James, secured $33 million from Benchmark Capital in a Series A round.

Fab.com, a daily deals site for design, raised $1 million in early-stage funding from Ashton Kutcher, SV Angel, SoftTech VC and previous backers First Round Capital, Baroda Ventures and The Washington Post.

Ignite Game Technologies raised a $7.5 million Series B to develop racing games.

Localmind, a Q&A site for the location around you, raised $600,000 in angel funding led by Granite Ventures with Real Ventures, iNovia Capital, Ian Sobieski, Peter Bordes, Ty Danco, Zach Aarons, and Ash Jhaveri participating.

Mobile advertising startup MoPub raised a $6.5 million Series A investment led by Accel Partners and joined by co-investor Harrison Metal Capital.

Video discovery and sharing site Shelby.tv raised $1.5 million.

Mobile entertainment studio skyrockit, raised $2.6 million led by investor Intel Capital with participation from Asuka DBJ Partners, and individual investor Mark Kingdon.

WordWatch, provider of automated pay-per-click keyword bidding solutions for small businesses, raised $1.4 million in Series A financing in a round led by Prague‐based Credo Ventures.

Zettaset, formerly GOTO Metrics, closed a $3 million Series A round led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Epic Ventures. Additionally, the company announced its relaunch under the new name Zettaset.

Late-stage

Evernote, the mobile and desktop app for organizing everything in your life, completed a $50 million round of financing led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Morgenthaler Ventures.

Nimble Storage, developer of the first converged storage and backup solution, raised $25 million in a Series D round of funding led by Artis Capital Management.

Scratch Music Group, a music and technology company, closed a $3.3 million round of growth financing led by Contour Venture Partners with additional funding from the New York City Investment Fund (NYCIF) and angel investors.

Shipwire, provider of outsourced order fulfillment, secured a capital investment from new investors eBay  and Newell Rubbermaid , and joined by existing investor Meakem Becker Venture Capital.

Tech support gurus SupportSpace raised $12 million in funding from Gemini, BRM and Emergence Capital.