Plancast, a startup which lets users share their plans, has raised $800,000 from SoftTechVC, True Ventures, Founders Fund Angel, Zelkova Ventures, as well as a number of angel investors. On Plancast, users post what they plan on doing later; users can track each others’ accounts and also indicate publicly that…

PlumWillow, a to-be-launched social shopping site betting that teens will skip the mall for online—as long as online shopping is social enough—has raised a seed round led by Crossbar Capital. The site promises to “empower its members to shop together with friends, make wardrobe choices from multiple brands, design their…

Online ad manager DoubleVerify has raised a $10 million second round funding. The round was led by Institutional Venture Partners. Previous investors Blumberg Capital, First Round Capital, Genacast Ventures and private backers also returned to provide the larger funding. The company, which is based in New York and has offices…

Online ad exchange DataXu has raised an $11 million second round led by Menlo Ventures. Atlas Venture and Flybridge Capital Partners, who backed DataXu’s $6 million first round in April 2009, also participated this time out. The proceeds will be used to fund new product development, sales and marketing, and…

IAC-owned local guide network Citysearch is expanding its local listings ad service CityGrid through a partnership with search marketer OrangeSoda. Citysearch is also providing an investment in Utah-based OrangeSoda, the amount of which is undisclosed. The move is part of a more aggressive effort by Citysearch to attract more ad…

Posterous, the popular quick blogging platform, has raised $4.4 million in additional funding, CEO Sachin Agarwal tells us. The site—which is likely best known for letting users blog simply by e-mailing text, photos, or files to a default Posterous account—has grand ambitions for its service; it says it “wants to…

TripIt, which offers a series of online tools that travelers can use to organize their travel plans, has raised $7 million in a funding round. With TripIt, users e-mail in their itineraries and then have TripIt organize them into a single “master travel itinerary” that they can easily share and…

Mobile ad campaign manager Adenyo has raised a large $26.9 million round, consisting of both institutional and private placement funding. The company, which has offices in Dallas and Toronto, plans to use the proceeds to promote an international expansion. Formerly known as Silverback Media, Adenyo provides a range of services,…

As traditional dating sites stagnate, investors appear to be sensing an opportunity in social dating startups. European venture fund 360 Capital Partners is investing $2.2 million in SmartDate.com, a social dating site which launched just three months ago. The site integrates with Facebook Connect so that users can link up…

Perfect Market, which helps publishers monetize their ‘long-tail’ content, is getting a major endorsement from one of its customers. The Tribune Co., which started using Perfect Market’s services at several of its sites last year, is leading a $6 million third round at the startup. Separately, Perfect Market announced earlier…

Fashion info service Stylesight has raised the second half of its $10 million second round, just two months after securing the first $5 million. Now that the round is done, New York-based Stylesight has revealed who its backers are: Volition Capital, an equity firm formed by Fidelity Ventures’ U.S. unit,…

Semantic search firm NetBase has raised $9 million in a third round of funding. The company says its technology “reads sentences to surface insights from billions of sources in public and private online information.” Customers include five of the top ten consumer packaged goods companies in the U.S., who use…

BraveNewTalent, a British social recruiting site which has its sites on an overseas expansion, has raised £350,000 (roughly $560,000) in a funding round from nine angel investors. The site—which mixes social networking with job searching—promises to let students and graduates “find, follow and build a relationship with employers of choice.”…

Berkeley, CA-based music service Mog.com, which recently launched its subscription music service with good review, is taking a new VC round to finance an entry to the UK market, promising to undercut the much-hyped Spotify and CBS-owned social site Last.fm, we have learned. The second round closed at around $10…

Music Mastermind, which is building tools designed to let amateurs put together and then share tracks, has raised $4.85 million in a first round of funding. The company—which is led by former Virgin Records CEO Matt Serletic—says it will unveil “a series of evolving console, mobile and social gaming products”…

The streak of recent language learning fundings continues ... Busuu, which claims more than 300,000 users, is set to announce Thursday that it has raised a “six-digit” round from an unnamed angel investor. The startup, which is based in Madrid, offers interactive language courses in Spanish, French, German, Italian and…

Social search startup PeerPong has raised $2.8 million in a funding round from Doll Capital Management, First Round Capital, Charles River Ventures and Partech International, the company tells us. PeerPong says it’s “building a new approach for getting answers from people who know them, building the most comprehensive community and…

Online scrapbook and e-card maker Smilebox has raised $2 million in order fund a European expansion. The startup—which lets users upload their media in order to create customized print or digital photo albums, scrapbooks, and cards—says it will offer a “fully localized version” of its service for top European markets…

Beijing-based ad network Yoyi Media has raised first round led by Disney’s Steamboat Ventures and Gobi Partners. Online advertising is still expected to grow at a rapid pace throughout Asia. Three-year-old Yoyi expects to capitalize on that growth. The company plans to build up its ad platforms and refine its…