D2C Games, of San Mateo, Calif., has raised $6 million in a first round of funding round to develop more downloadable video games.

D2C is is run by Madden Football architect and Glu Mobile founder Scott Orr, and is backed by new Silicon Valley firm Rubicon Ventures, which earlier invested a seed round of $1 million into D2C (see our earlier coverage). It is focused on “casual games for a variety of platforms, including Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Nintendo Wii, but it isn’t saying much more.

Here’s the latest announcement. 755 Capital Partners joined Rubicon in the round.

Reklaim Technologies, Bellevue, Wash. company that recycles tires, computers ands an automobile practices in order to recover materials and trapped energy, has raised $7 million more in financing.

The funding brings the company’s total to $15 million. The money comes from Goldman Sachs, and the second round may eventually be bumped up to total $10 million.

It is doing something similar to Richmond, Calif.’s MBA Polymers, which we covered here, and which has raised about $50 million.

Goldman Sachs has also invested in London’s Sterecycle, a solid-waste recycling company.

InQ, a Los Angeles, Calif. company that provides online chat customer service for companies’ web sites, said it has raised another $5 million in a fourth round of capital.

We wrote about this company here, explaining how it pops up a chat screen on Web sites to handhold customers through their purchase decisions. It provides the service to any company that wants it, and gets paid only when products are sold.

The financing was led by Emergence Capital, and included existing investors Partech International, Dolphin Equity Partners, and Hudson Ventures.

The company says it has helped a Fortune 1000 company improve online sales by 20 percent in three months, citing a Forrester Consulting study that inQ commissioned.

Trilogy Studios, a Santa Monica, Calif. videogame and virtual world development company, said it has raised $3.2 million in a second round of funding.

The company did not name the investors, but said the funds will be allocated to expand the company’s virtual world and casual massively multiplayer online (MMO) businesses.

The company joins a crowd of other venture-backed game and virtual world companies, and its not clear what makes this company distinct.

Here’s a snippet from the press release:

Founders Michael Pole and Rick Giolito also named Michael Wilson, CEO of Makena Technologies and producer of There.com, to Trilogy Studios’ board of directors.

“We continue to leverage our extensive background of developing multi-million unit selling videogames to enhance the entertainment experience of virtual worlds and casual MMOs,” said Michael Pole, Chairman and CEO of Trilogy Studios.

“Combining our decades of experience in traditional gaming with Makena’s leadership in social networking, we can provide media companies the opportunity to build a one on one relationship with their consumers while promoting and monetizing their content libraries and new entertainment properties in this exciting new medium”.

Trilogy Studios has a pedigree in top quality videogame development and has attracted a number of highly successful creative executives and developers who were responsible for some of the biggest interactive entertainment franchises, including Medal of Honor™, The Chronicles of Riddick™, The Hulk™, Aliens vs. Predator™, No One Lives Forever™, Hot Wheels: Turbo Racing, The Simpsons: Hit and Run, The Simpsons: Road Rage™, Empire Earth™, NASCAR™ and Knockout Kings™.

“Trilogy enables major media and brand companies the opportunity to monetize their content in the online space through micro-transactions, premium subscriptions, e-commerce, sponsorship and advertising”, said Rick Giolito, President of Trilogy Studios and former Vice President and Executive Producer of Electronic Arts, Los Angeles. “We’re having a successful run with MTV’s Virtual ‘Pimp My Ride,’ and we’ve received very promising feedback from established media companies looking to extend their film, television and music content into the virtual world space.”

EnerTech Capital has raised $75 million so far for a third venture fund targeting investments in the energy sector, according to VentureWire (subscription required).

The fund, which began raising capital in 2005, appears to be running a permanent fund-raising campaign. It wants to raise a total of $250 million. Limited partners in the new fund include California Public Employees’ Retirement System, Dow Ventures, Kuwait Petroleum Co., Abu Dhabi-government affiliated investment vehicle Masdar Clean Tech Fund and holding company Acorn Factor Inc., according to the report.

YOUbeQB, a Seattle company that allows you to choose which offensive plays will be called during NFL and college football games, has launched, and is just the latest in the bunch of fantasy sports games launching recently.

See the Seattle PI story by John Cook here.

It has backing from Hall of Fame football players Ronnie Lott and Joe Montana, who invested through their Woodside, Calif.-based venture fund HRJ Capital.  Former San Francisco 49ers offensive lineman Harris Barton is also a member of HRJ. Other investors include former Seahawks President Bob Whitsitt, Neah Power Chief Executive Paul Abramowitz and Bill Savoy, the former president of Paul Allen’s Vulcan Ventures.

YouBeQB is led by 26 year old jock Kris Billmaier, son of entrepreneur Jim Billmaier.

Sonics, a Mountain View, Calif. company that sells software to chip companies, has filed for an initial public offering of up to $80 million in common stock.

For the three months ending June 30, the company has net income of $2.8 million up from from a net loss of $907,000 in the same period a year earlier.

Sonics has raised more than $60 million from at least 20 investors over the last decade, including original investors Globespan (formerly Jafco Ventures), Investar Capital and JP Morgan Partners. Others include Cadence, Cadence Design Systems, Easton Hunt Capital, H&Q Asia-Pacific, Omninet Capital, PaceSetter, Newlight Associates, Samsung Ventures Investment, Smart Technology Ventures, Spinnaker Ventures, TL Ventures and Toshiba.

Masala, a secretive San Francisco-based social networking startup, has raised a $4.5 million  first round of funding. The round was led by VantagePoint Venture Partners, according to a regulatory filing cited by PEHub. The company is run by former Sevin Rosen Funds partner Amra Tareen, and by social networking consultant Erik Sundelof, VantagePoint confirmed with VentureBeat over the weekend. However, PEHub cited the wrong URL, according to the firm. The correct URL is http://www.masalainc.com

See our story here.

[This story originally ran August 22)

(AKQA., a San Francisco interactive marketing company, has acquired search marketing company Searchrev, of Palo Alto, Calif., for less than $10 million, according to the Wall Street Journal. General Atlantic bought AKQA earlier this year for between $200 million and $250 million from Francisco Partners. (Via PE Wire).

Update: Thanks to readers, we’ve been informed the PE Wire reference was wrong. The WSJ said the company’s annual revenue is just under $10 million. This suggests the price was much higher than $10 million.