In an attempt to expand its horizon, seed-stage venture firm Y Combinator - which till now has been exclusively financed by founders Paul Graham, Robert Morris, Jessica Livingston and Trevor Blackwell - has recently raised nearly $2 million from Sequoia Capital and a few angel investors.

The "hard-to-find" food items will now become much easier to find - thanks to the newly-launched Y Combinator startup Foodoro! The site is practically an online marketplace for specialty artisanal foods.

The 3rd annual "Summer@Highland" entrepreneurship program, by VC firm Highland Capital Partners, is open for enrollment of prospective entrepreneurs. The program aims at tapping young, talented early-stage entrepreneur groups, similar to start-up incubators like Y Combinator and TechStars.

Voxli, a new Y Combinator startup that has received $15,000 thus far, has endeavored to fix the communication problem between large groups of online gamers, by the means of launching an open beta for its browser-based voice-chatting system for gamers.

The Toronto, Canada-based Backtype, which has quite recently added a new feature - Backtype Connect - to its service, has raised $300,000 in a seed funding round led by True Ventures.

The budding investors lately got a chance to come together with Silicon Valley's veteran angel investors at AngelConf - organized by Seed-stage venture firm Y Combinator at its Mountain View, California headquarters.

After its last month launch of a widget that enabled web sites to embed some casual games on their sites, Heyzap has now announced a launch of a game database that can be categorized into segments like sports or puzzles.