Big news today from Rovio, the Finland-based developers behind the hugely successful Angry Birds mobile game: the company has picked up $42 million in funding, a first round round led by no less than Accel Partners and Atomico Ventures, the VC firm founded and led by Skype/Kazaa/Joost founders Niklas Zennstrom…

StumbleUpon, the content recommendation service that eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) purchased for $75 million in 2007 and then sold back to its founders two years ago, has raised $17 million in a new funding round.

In the latest sign of the huge interest in social games among investors, Vostu, a Brazilian social game developer which is known for its popular titles on Orkut, has raised $30 million. The WSJ says in its report that Accel Partners and Tiger Global Management participated in the funding round.…

Eager to expand its sales team and continue its momentum, sports blog network SB Nation has raised another $10.5 million in a third round of funding. CEO Jim Bankoff confirmed the round, which was led by Khosla Ventures. Previous investors Accel Partners and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) Interactive Capital also took…

Crafts buying site Etsy has raised a fifth VC round of $20 million from Index Ventures, the investor announced through TechCrunch, though not its own site.

Squarespace, the popular web publishing platform, has raised $38.5 million in a first round of funding led by Index Ventures and Accel Partners. This is the first outside investment for Squarespace, which was started seven years ago and has been profitable since its first year in business. Founder Anthony Casalena…

Fast-growing mobile app store GetJar, which says it has had more than one billion apps downloaded from its store to date, making it second in size only to Apple’s app store, has raised $11 million in a second round of funding. GetJar’s app store includes about 70,000 apps for all…

Booyah, a startup battling rivals Gowalla and FourSquare in the very hot location-based mobile app market, has raised $20 million. Like Gowalla and FourSquare, Booyah’s app, MyTown, lets users check in at actual locations. They can also “buy” locations and charge rent when others visit. The company says in a…

Online video platform company Brightcove has raised $12 million in a fourth round of funding—and is now talking about going public as soon as next year. CEO Jeremy Allaire (pictured) told us this fall that his company—which has now been profitable for nearly a year—did not need to raise additional…

Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield has raised $5 million in funding for his new online gaming venture, Tiny Speck. Word that Butterfield, along with some other former Flickr employees, including chief architect Cal Henderson, were working on a gaming startup first surfaced last spring. The company is developing a massively multiplayer…

Updated: Complex Media, the on- and offline media company founded by entrepreneur and artist Marc Ecko, has raised $12.8 million in funding, per an SEC filing. The new money comes from Accel Partners and Austin Ventures, and serves as Complex Media’s first round of funding as a standalone company. It…

Groupon, a social, online deal-finding service, has raised $30 million in funding. Accel Partners led the round, with participation from previous backer New Enterprise Associates (NEA). The Point, Groupon’s parent company, raised roughly $7.3 million from NEA and angel backers over the course of 2007 and 2008. Groupon will use…

Cloudera, founded last year by technology veterans from companies that include Oracle, Facebook and Google (NSDQ: GOOG), has raised $5 million in first-round funding from Accel Partners. The company’s main product is a tweaked version of Apache’s open-source Hadoop Java software, which search engines, social networks and other websites use…

Ludic Labs, a social media tech development firm, has picked up $5 million in a round of funding led by Accel Partners; KPG Ventures and a number of undisclosed private investors also participated in the round. Founded in 2006, the San Mateo, Calif.-based startup has been in stealth mode, but…

How long before P2P file-sharing service BitTorrent crashes and burns? The company raised $17 million in a third round over the summer, but according to TechCrunch, it has returned most of those funds to investors DAG Ventures, DCM and Accel Partners in exchange for a smaller, $7 million round.  BitTorrent…

Search technology company Kosmix has picked up a big $20 million in a fourth round of funding led by *Time Warner* Investments. Existing backers Accel Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and DAG Ventures also participated in the round, and interestingly, former *Motorola* CEO Ed Zander joining as a private investor. Mountain…

Social games publisher and developer Playfish has raised $17 million (£10.8 million) in a second round of funding led by Accel Partners and Index Ventures. The London-based start up plans to use the money to continue growing its offering. The company says it currently has more than 10 million monthly…

Adroll, a startup that offers ad net services, has raised a first round funding, Venturebeat reported. I spoke to Jared Kopf, the San Francisco company’s founder and CEO, who declined to specify the amount, but said it was around $4 million. Participants in the round included Merus Capital, Thiel, Accel…

BitTorrent, the P2P-based content distributor, has raised a $17 million third round from past backers DCM and Accel Partners, as well as DAG Ventures according to peHUB, citing a regulatory filing. It’s now raised a total of $46.4 million. The company isn’t the same as the popular mode of illegal…