The former corporate venturing unit of media company Hubert Burda Media is joined by the former unit of publishing company Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing, backing the online shop for designer furniture.

Talent and literary agency William Morris Endeavor and venture capital (VC) firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers co-led the round

Alongside DuMont Venture in the round were venture capital firms Target Partners and E42 Ventures and angel investors.

Samsung Ventures and CrunchFund are joined in the series A round by venture firms Pelion Venture Partners, Horizons Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and First Round Capital.

Rally had raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding at the end of 2010 from Floodgate Fund, Greylock Partners and SV Angel.

Google Ventures and IDG Ventures are joined in the series A round for the e-mail tracking system by venture firms Foundry Group and Golden Venture Partners.

European investors in private equity look to both corporates and government for more support of the venture industry, after more than one third of investors in the continent have lost money in venture.