Visual.ly is an infographics design company that has raised $2 million in seed funding. The investors in this round includes Crosslink Capital, SoftTech, 500 Startups, Kapor Capital, Giza Ventures, Naval Ravikant, Mark Goines, Josh James, etc. Visual.ly had about 26,000 users sign up as part of their beta. Over 300,000 infographics have been created and they receive about one million pageviews per month. Some of the companies that Visual.ly works with include BuzzFeed, AskMen, CNNMoney, GOOD, NASDAQ, Skype, the Wall Street Journal, and National Geographic. Visual.ly plans on using the funding for building their development team and hire additional data visualization specialists.

Inkling is a digital textbook startup company that has raised a multi-million dollar round of funding from McGraw-Hill, Pearson, Sequoia Capital, Felicis Ventures, Kapor Capital, and Sherpalo Ventures. Inkling had previously raised an undisclosed Series A round of funding in August 2010. Inkling’s technology has the ability to deliver interactive textbooks. Users can collaborate, add multimedia, and chat with each other within the specific content. Some of the dynamic content included in Inkling’s technology is 3D objects, videos, quizzes, etc. [TechCrunch]

EduLender is a Chicago based startup comparison search engine company intended to find student loans. EduLender has raised $1 million in seed funding from Hyde Park Angels, Kapor Capital, New World Ventures, Sandbox Ventures, Excelerate, and OKCupid co-founder Sam Yagan.