Cord-cutting has yet to hit the mainstream, but one service is beefing up its offering in an attempt to make it more of a reality. The connected TV provider Boxee—which lets users watch TV programs, films and other content from the internet on their TV sets—is today announcing that it…

CBS (NYSE: CBS) Radio-backed TargetSpot, which bills itself as the biggest digital audio ad network, has raised $8 million in its latest round of funding. TargetSpot’s partners include MySpace (NSDQ: NWS), which turned to the company last year to place 30-second audio ads on MySpace Music. Other sites in its…

Berlin-based audio hosting website SoundCloud says it’s taking investment from Union Square Ventures and Index Ventures.

AdaptiveBlue, the developer behind the entertainment “check-in” app GetGlue, has raised $6 million in a round of funding led by Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) Investments, with RRE Ventures and Union Square Ventures also participating.

Foursquare, the extremely hot mobile check-in service, has finally raised a new round of funding. Since at least March, venture capital firms (and large internet companies) have been courting Foursquare, which has been growing very rapidly; at one point, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) was said to have offered as much as…

Simulmedia, a company that aims to lift TV ratings through analysis of set-top box data, has raised a $8 million second round led by Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) Investments, the company said. Previous backers Avalon Ventures and Union Square Ventures also participated. The New York company, founded by ex-AOL (NYSE:…

An example of how some straight tech investment is making the shift into green technology: AMEE, which has built an engine to calculate greenhouse gas emissions, has raised $5.5 million from investors that include Amadeus Capital Partners and existing investors O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures and Union Square Ventures. AMEE says in…

UpCompany, the parent company of RakedIn, the financial and company profiles portal launched by Michael Yavonditte, former CEO of Quigo, has raked in $5.73 million in a new round of funding, according to an SEC filing. The investors in the round include Unionsquare Ventures, and Vast Ventures, among plenty of…

Foursquare, the hot iPhone social app that allows you to broadcast your location to your friends, is almost done raising its seed round of $1.35 million, according to a SEC document just filed. The new money is from, who else, Union Square Ventures, which is also an investor in Twitter.…

Browser-based streaming media service Boxee has raised $6 million in a second round of funding. General Catalyst Partners led the round—managing director Neil Sequeira is joining the board—with previous backers Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital also participating. Boxee has raised $10 million in funding since its soft launch last…

Email marketing and white-list management company Return Path picked up $6 million in late stage funding, peHub reports, citing a regulatory finding. Backers of this fifth round include Union Square Ventures, Mobius Venture Capital, Sutter Hill Ventures and Western Technology Investments; CEO and founder Matt Blumberg told us the filing…

Prepping for the long financial winter, hyperlocal content network Outside.In has secured an undisclosed amount of funding. Previous backers Union Square Ventures, the New York City Investment Fund and Betaworks all participated in the new investment, among others. The new money comes just a few months after the Brooklyn, NY-based…

If blogs are over, tumblelogs never even got going. But that isn’t stopping Tumblr, short-form scrapbook blogging’s biggest exponent, from raising a $4.5 million second VC round. Beefing up, the outfit is adding former Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) technology SVP John Borthwick to its board and former CNET director John…

Digital media browser software firm Boxee has received $4 million in its first round of funding. The round was led by Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital. The open-source software scans and brings all kinds of multimedia from a user’s computer or network into the application, lets users stream content…

Meetup, one of the original social network/event organizing sites, has received new funding from Union Square Ventures. No other details were released, but USV’s Fred Wilson writes about it on his blog: “Meetup is a perfect investment for our firm because it’s a company we know well and a service…

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…

Finally Twitter announces its funding. The popular microblogging/messaging service says its newest investors are Spark Capital and Jeff Bezos, via his Bezos Expeditions fund. That Spark was participating was already known, though Bezos’ participation is a surprise. Past backers Union Square Ventures and Tokyo-based Digital Garage also re-upped. The size…

Outside.in, an aggregator of local, user-gen content, has raised a $3 million third round from past backers Union Square Ventures, Milestone Partners, Betaworks and various unidentified angels led by George Crowley. Also joining the round was the New York City Investment Fund. The Brooklyn, NY-based startup has previously raised $2.4…

Covestor, a service for people to share their stock picks, has raised a $6.5 million first round led by Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital, along with Amadeus Capital Partners. The company previously raised a seed round from angel investors. The service lets users broadcast their stock picks, establish a…