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

Rally.org, a US-based social fundraising platform, has raised $7.9m in its series A round from a consortium including search engine Google’s corporate venturing unit.

Alongside Kevin Rose of Google Ventures, in his first deal since he joined the team at the start of the month, the A round included venture capital firms Relay Ventures, Mike Maples of Floodgate Fund, Reid Hoffman of Greylock Partners, Craig Shapiro of Collaborative Fund, and angel investors: Michael Birch, Tim Ferriss, Eric Ries, Josh Spear,…