The San Francisco-based website, , aggregates posts from about 10,000 food blogs worldwide and receives about 6.7m unique visitors a month. Site advertisers include Quaker and Kikkoman.
The funding round comes despite a competitive market for food blogs, which includes popular websites like Epicurious, Good Bite and Chowhound -- suggesting that the recession is curtailing consumers' need to dine out.
Foodbuzz digs into the "long tail" of food publishing to promote thousands of small food bloggers, pouring through about one million blogs posts every month.