Podio, a Danish cloud company specializing in an online work platform for collaboration and project management, has been sold to Citrix for an undisclosed amount.

Founded in Copenhagen in 2009 by serial entrepreneur Tommy Ahlers and several others, Podio raised funding from Sunstone Capital in December 2010. Ahlers, the company's CEO, previously co-founded Zyb, which was sold to Vodafone in 2008 for $50 million.  Ahlers and the entire Podio team will join Citrix.

Viadeo, a Paris-based LinkedIn competitor with over 45 million members worldwide, has raised $32 million split between the French Sovereign Wealth Fund, the Fonds Strategique d'Investissement, existing institutional shareholders, Idinvest, Ventech and a pool of new investors including Allianz , global investment banking firm Jeffries, and Middle Eastern private funds. The company said the new investment will allow Viadeo to accelerate its growth in Europe and China, as well as other key emerging markets like Latin America, Russia, India, and Africa.

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ASG Software Solutions, an enterprise IT software company based in Naples, Florida announced April 4 that it has acquired Spain's  NTRglobal, a specialist in cloud-based help desk and ITSM delivery systems for the enterprise. Founded in 2000 in Spain, NTRglobal has global offices in Dallas, Barcelona, Paris and Heidelberg. More than 14,000 companies in 60 countries rely on NTRglobal’s modular help desk and ITSM solutions to remotely support their customers.

Arma Partners, the M&A advisory group, served as the advisor to NTRGlobal on the deal.

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