Startups fundings: Kidaptive, TinyCo and BrightTag can now accelerate development of new feature and their international expansion.

As usual, Connectikpeople recalls that, fundraising is often needed to scale the company and generate exponential growth.

In this case, Kidaptive ( founded in 2012, Palo Alto-based educational app maker ), 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.

For those who unfamiliar, Kidaptive creates interactive apps for iPad that combine entertaining videos and games with a curriculum focused on kindergarten readiness. This company plans to put the new funds towards hiring, international expansion, and Android development.

TinyCo  (founded in 2009, San Francisco-based mobile game developer), has raised $20 million in Series B funding from Pinnacle Ventures and existing investor Andreessen Horowitz. With this funding, TinyCo's will shift to emphasize deeper game play and higher budget titles. TinyCo has raised $38 million in funding to date.

BrightTag  ( founded in 2009, Chicago-based marketing technology platform ), 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.

For those who unfamiliar, BrightTag offers a tag management solution to help marketers and web analysts make online data instantly useful in any web or mobile application. BrightTag has raised $50 million in funding to date and will use the latest capital to accelerate development of new features.