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Arrow Capital Partners, an investor and operator of real estate in Europe and Asia-Pacific, has acquired two multi-let light industrial assets in separate transactions in the Netherlands for a total of approximately EUR11 million. Both assets were acquired for Arrow’s Cerberus-backed pan-European Strategic Industrial Real Estate (SIRE) joint venture.
Drawbridge, a provider of cybersecurity software and solutions to the alternative investment industry, has appointed Edna M Conway to its Board of Directors.  Conway brings decades of experience and leadership delivering trust, transparency, compliance, risk management, sustainability and supply chain transformation to organisations. She currently serves as Security & Risk Officer for Microsoft Azure Hardware Systems & Infrastructure, where she is responsible for the security, resiliency and governance of the cloud infrastructure upon which Microsoft’s Intelligent Cloud business operates. 
TA Associates, a global growth private equity firm, has made a strategic growth investment in Adcubum AG, a Swiss health and property & casualty (P&C) insurance software provider, and tech11, an insurance software provider serving the P&C market in Germany and across Europe.  The investment will create a major software provider in the health and P&C markets in Europe, leveraging the momentum of both Adcubum and tech11. Financial terms of the transactions have not been disclosed.
Private equity firm Sverica Capital Management (Sverica) has made a strategic investment in ShadowDragon, a threat intelligence software provider focused on offering open-source intelligence (OSINT) data and tools to both public sector and commercial clients to help streamline investigations and safeguard assets.  Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. The Company’s flagship product, SocialNet, helps aggregate data from 140+ different platforms across the clear, deep, and dark web to uncover identities, networks, and connections of potential threat actors. The Company offers a number of additional products including OIMonitor, MalNet, and Spotter that serve as useful tools to security
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Alternative investment management company Pollen Street Capital (Pollen Street) has closed PSC Fund IV, which will focus on growth investments in European financial and business services.
Affiliates of Dallas-based private equity manager Paceline Equity Partners have acquired two limited-service hotels in Orlando, Florida, the Fairfield Inn & Suites and the Residence Inn.  Both hotels are located near the renowned theme parks Universal Orlando, ICON Park, SeaWorld Orlando as well as the Orange County Convention Center and forthcoming Universal Epic Universe, which is currently under construction and is expected to double the size of Universal’s Orlando footprint when completed in 2025.
Northstar Capital (Northstar), a provider of junior capital for middle market private equity transactions, has invested in Black Diamond Networks (Black Diamond), a portfolio company of Tenex Capital Management (Tenex). Black Diamond is a provider of professional staffing solutions exclusively focused on scarce, high-end skill sets in advanced technical fields, specialising in life sciences and engineering and technology sectors.  Black Diamond is the eighteenth platform investment in Fund VII, a USD500 million committed parallel fund strategy consisting of Northstar Mezzanine Partners VII LP and Northstar Mezzanine Partners SBIC LP. 
Northlane Capital Partners (NCP) has sold its portfolio company Discovery Data Holdings (Discovery) to Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a provider of corporate governance and responsible investment solutions, market intelligence, fund services, and events and editorial content for institutional investors and corporations. Discovery Data is a provider of data and information services to the financial services industry. Discovery’s platform empowers asset and wealth management firms, insurance companies, financial technology companies, and service providers to understand their target markets and to identify, assess, and seize new opportunities. 
Software and services investor Hg has made a significant investment in Pirum Systems (Pirum), a provider of post-trade automation and collateral management technology for the global securities finance industry. Hg will share joint control with Pirum’s current backers Bowmark Capital, the technology and services investor, which invested in the company in 2019. The Pirum management team will also retain a significant stake in the business.
Dragoneer has led a USD75 million Series B funding round in Rho, ​​a corporate spend and cash management company.  New investors including DFJ Growth, and existing investors including M13, Inspired Capital and Torch Capital also participated in the equity financing. Rho has grown 10x in under 12 months, driven by constant innovation and product delivery, including the launch of its integrated accounts payable product in January 2021 and its corporate card in May 2021.

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