Online payment network Dwolla has pulled in $16.5 million in a third funding round led by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, according to VentureBeat. Previous investors Village Ventures, Thrive Capital, and Union Square Ventures also contributed. Dwolla raised its $5 million Series B round in February 2012.

42Floors announced in a blog post this morning that it has raised a $12.3 million Series B round of funding that was led by New Enterprise Associates and includes Bessemer Venture Partners and Thrive Capital, two of the company’s Series A investors, and new investor Columbus Nova Technology Partners.

There’s no question that Brazil is quente. Just last Friday, it was announced that Accel Partners has made its fifth investment in Brazil, in Kekanto, a local review and search site. As Accel’s Andrew Braccia told the New York Times, his firm — which didn’t disclose the size of the funding — has seen “an [...]

Codecademy, a site that teaches people how to become computer programmers, has sealed a Series A round from investors including Union Square Ventures, O’Reilly, SV Angel, Yuri Milner, Social+Capital Partnership, Thrive Capital, CrunchFund, Collaborative Fund, Founder Collective, and individual investors including Joshua Schacter, Vivi Nevo, Naval Ravikant and Sam Altman. The company reportedly sealed $2.5 million in the round, which will be used to bolster the development and design team.

The VC fundraising environment is looking weak, with just a smattering of announcements and regulatory filings over the past two months. Official Q3 stats won’t be released until October, but it’s not looking good from an anecdotal standpoint. Trolling through the peHUB archive, I turned up just five stories about various U.S.-based VC funds getting [...]