The Cheezburger Network, known for some of the top procrastination sites on the web, including I Can Has Cheezburger?, FAIL blog, and The Daily What, is about to grow up. The company has raised $30 million in its first round of funding from the Foundry Group, Madrona Venture Group, Avalon…

The mobile ad space is continuing its rapid growth and so Medialets has chosen a good time to close a $6 million second round funding. The round was led by the Foundry Group, with participation from DFJ Gotham, 500 Startups and former Gannett (NYSE: GCI) chief digital officer Chris Saridakis,…

Ad inventory optimizer AdMeld has raised a $15 million third round as it expects to attract more publishers making the move to online ad exchanges. With this round, AdMeld has raised a total of $30 million since opening its doors almost three years ago. The round was led by Norwest…

Search ad optimizer Trada has raised a $5.75 million third round led by Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Ventures. The Foundry Group, a previous backer, also participated in the round. The proceeds will go towards the Boulder, CO-based start-up’s international expansion, as well as helping it promote its services to ad agencies.

Lijit Networks, provider of search tools for blogs, has completed a $6 million fourth round funding designed to help it expand its publisher network and ad services. The round was led by existing investor, Foundry Group. Previous backers Boulder Ventures and Colorado Fund I, managed by High Country Venture, also…

BigDoor Media, which builds white-label virtual goods systems for publishers, has raised $5 million in a funding round. BigDoor’s platform lets third-party sites and apps add a host of what it describes as “game mechanics,”  including a virtual goods marketplace, badges and rewards, so that they can boost engagement (and…

Trada—a startup which helps small and medium sized businesses improve the performance of their search ad campaigns by connecting them with experts—has raised $2.2 million in a first round of funding. On Trada, advertisers create a profile of a campaign they would like to run and set out basic parameters,…

What ... me worry about “scammy” ad accusations? Social gamer Zynga may be struggling with an image problem stemming from its offer-based in-game ads, but an SEC filing shows that the company just got a fresh influx of cash—$15.1 million in a third round of funding—so clearly, its investors don’t…

Ecast, a long-standing digital jukebox-based ad network and content platform, has raised $17 million in funding, per an SEC filing. New investor LG Electronics (SEO: 066570) participated in this round, along with previous backers Foundry Group, Escalate Capital Partners, DCM and Crosslink Capital; Ecast has raised well over $80 million…

Lijit, a popular service that lets blogs add search functionality, has raised a $7.1 million third round led by Foundry Group. Past backers Boulder Ventures and Colorado Fund participated in this latest round as well. The Boulder-based company has previously raised $4.2 million, for a total of $11.3 million. In…

Just when Fortune did a long story on Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers not investing in the Internet and Web 2.0 world anymore, the venerable venture firm unleashes a major one: San Francisco-based Zynga, which makes casual games for social network has received a big $29 million second round, led…

Topspin Media, a music marketing firm helmed by ex-Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Ian Rogers, has raised a second round of funding led by Foundry Group. In April Last September, the company raised an unspecified first round from Redpoint Ventures. Basically, the company offers a complete set of tools for bands to…