Chicago-based marketing technology platform BrightTag has raised $27 million in a Series D round led by Yahoo! Japan with participation from existing investors Baird Capital, EPIC Ventures, 12A, Pritzker Group, and TomorrowVentures. BrightTag offers a tag management solution to help marketers and web analysts make online data instantly useful in any web or mobile application. Founded in 2009, BrightTag has raised $50 million in funding to date and will use the latest capital to accelerate development of new features.

San Francisco-based mobile game developer TinyCo has raised $20 million in Series B funding from Pinnacle Ventures and existing investor Andreessen Horowitz. TinyCo's games include Tiny Monsters and VIP Poker, but with the funding their focus will shift to emphasize deeper game play and higher budget titles. Founded in 2009, TinyCo has raised $38 million in funding to date.

Palo Alto-based educational app maker Kidaptive has raised $10.1 million in a Series B round led by Formation 8 with participation from A round lead Menlo Ventures, Stanford's StartX Fund, NewSchools Venture Fund, and Prana Studios, an animation and visual effects studio. Kidaptive creates interactive apps for iPad that combine entertaining videos and games with a curriculum focused on kindergarten readiness, and plans to put the new funds towards hiring, international expansion, and Android development. Founded last year, Kidaptive's apps already have over 500,000 downloads and a 90% user return rate.

Since the last email, CrunchBase captured more than 47 rounds and $254 million in fundings... and the data keeps rolling in.