-Here's a start-up that we can get on board with. Clear secured a whopping $44.4 million in venture capital funding this week for a technology that allows their members to breeze through airport security. Here's how it works: to become a member, you must apply with Clear and go through an application process that includes fingerprinting, an iris scan, and a background check. Once an applicant is approved, they get a card that allows them to pass through fast security lanes that are already in existence at airports like JFK. And lest you think that someone could hand their card off to a terrorist, Clear says that they use biometric verification every time some goes through airport security to prevent that. Sign us up!

-As Web 2.0 companies continue struggling to find ways to monetize themselves, other start-ups are cropping up with [possible] solutions - like online advertising business Lotame. They raised $13 million second round funding this week. Lotame works by partnering with social sites (including current customers the Huffington Post and Flixster) and then embedding their technology, a tracking tool, into each site's code. This device then captures info about a site's users including gender, age, and zip code (scary, we know). This naturally gives the advertisers who they turn the information over to a better sense of the site's demographic so they can create more targeted ads. That's good...we think?

-ZocDoc, a start-up website that helps patients find and make appointments with dentists and physicians, nailed $3 million in first round venture funding this week. The company has recently had a ton of press, including mentions in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and on NBC and ABC.

-No, this isn't a joke. Follica, a Boston-based company who says they've got a treatment for baldness in the works, raised $11 million in second round funding this week. If it works, it's a smart investment. We're betting a fix for baldness would be worth more than Google.

-With recent word that the Segway Enthusiasts Group was biting the dust, we thought maybe we'd seen the last of those nerdy two-wheeled Segway scooters. Not so. After recently closing a $35 million round of VC funding, apparently Segway is on the hunt again for another $14 million that would be their fourth round of funding. We just hope they're not on the hunt for more cash because they spent their last round already...