London-based Unruly Media, a marketing agency that specializes in Web video campaigns, raised €19.3 million in Series A round that included Amadeus Capital Partners, Van den Ende & Deitmers and Business Growth Fund.Read more

 SoundCloud has raised growth capital in a round led by Silicon Valley’s Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) and GGV Capital, a US/China growth fund. The amount raised was not disclosed, but the company said it is large enough to fund scaling of the three-year old company’s social audio platform. Mary Meeker of KPCB will join SoundCloud’s board as an observer. She is also actively involved in other KPCB portfolio companies including Groupon, Waze, 360buy.com, and Spotify, another one Europe’s up and coming social music platforms.Read more

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Sweden's Klarna Raises €117.5 million for Expansion
Klarna, a Stockholm-based payments solutions platform provider that enables consumers to pay for purchases after delivery, announced a €117.5 million round of financing to develop new geographic markets, and to expedite growth in existing markets. Klarna had already enticed top-tier VC firm Sequoia in an earlier round. With this round it expands its investor base, adding DST Global, founded by Russian investor, Yuri Milner, and late stage investor, General Atlantic Partners.Read more

Five- year- old Santiane.fr, which doubled its sales this year, has closed a financing round led by BNP Paribas Private Equity. The French private equity firm acquired a minority stake in the Nice-based venture for €5 million. Santiane.fr claims that in less than five years of operation it has become the largest French online broker of health insurance in the market, with a sales forecast for 2013 of €50 million.Read more

At LeWeb in Paris, Karl Lagerfeld, the German-born style icon and high-fashion designer, announced further details about his own brand of clothing, Karl, showing a 23 second video clip from the stage. A sneak preview of the line will be available exclusively at U.K.-online luxury retailer Net-a-Porter on January 25. The actual launch of the label will be in February 2012, according to karllagerfeld.com. The details about the Lagerfeld's new brand have been emerging since October. Net-a-Porter posted a notification on its blog that the label was coming soon.Read more

Bonn-based Doo announced a €5 million seed financing round this week. DuMont Venture, which is the venture arm of the German media company M. DuMont Schauberg, led the deal co-investing with two high profile business angels, namely Hermann Simon, a buisness consultant and biz book author, and Lars Hinrichs, the German entrepreneur and founder Xing and Hackfwd incubator. The financing came on the back of the launch of a free-to-use beta version of Doo’s software for the Apple’s OS.

The developers of a virtual keypad for Android devices enticed several well-known British technology entrepreneurs, along with two early VC investors to back its Series A round. London-based TouchType raised  €1.8 million ($2.4 million)  from Octopus Investments and Cambridge Capital Group, and several business angels, including Jon Craton, the founder of telecommunications software company Cramer Systems, which was acquired by Amdocs, and Nick Hynes and Carl Uminski, co-founders of of Somo, pioneers in mobile paid search applications....

Informilo is pleased to announce that it has raised seed funding from two of Europe's great entrepreneurs: Måns Hultman, the former CEO and Chairman of Qliktech, a global player in business intelligence software (Its listing was  one of the hottest  IPOs on Nasdaq in 2010), and Sean Phelan, the founder of Multimap, a UK-based, global mapping company that was sold to Microsoft in 2007.Read more