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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.
SoftBank Vision Fund 2 has led a USD25 million Series A funding round in Atom Learning, an adaptive learning edtech platform.
Main Capital Partners-backed Swedish HR-technology company Assessio has acquired People Test Systems. European software investor Main Capital Partners backed the company in 2019 with the goal for Assessio to become the market leader in Europe for HR-technology and digital recruitment services. After completion of its second add-on acquisition in the Netherlands in October, the Assessio Group is now further expanding in the Nordic region with the acquisition of Danish e-assessment company, People Test Systems (PTS).
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EQT Growth has led a EUR235 million Series E funding round in SaaS banking platform Mambu, the largest financing round to date for a banking software platform. 
Broadridge Financial Solutions and SLIB, a software vendor in electronic voting and securities services based in France, have announced the live operational running of their joint cross-border proxy voting solution.  Unique in the French market, the solution enables intermediaries – including banks, brokers and wealth managers that serve France-based investors – to meet their new, mandatory obligations to support voting for European shareholder meetings under the updated Shareholder Rights Directive (SRDII).
Ten Coves Capital has led a USD35 million Series B round in Canopy, a cloud-based practice management platform for accounting professionals. Current investors NewView Capital, Pelion Partners, Tenaya Capital, and Ankona Capital also made significant investments with the funding set to be used further accelerate Canopy’s mission to become the ”default operating system for accounting firms.
Francisco Partners, a leading global investment firm that specialises in partnering with technology businesses, has led a strategic investment of approximately USD100 million in NZXT, a specialist in in PC gaming hardware and services.  In addition to Francisco Partners, strategic investors in NZXT also include leaders and entrepreneurs across multiple industries. This group of investors includes: Kevin Lin – Co-Founder of Twitch; Vanessa Dew – Co-Founder & CSO of Health-Ade Kombucha; Patrick Lee – Co-Founder of Rotten Tomatoes; James Lin – Co-Founder of CrunchyRoll; Eddie Hartman – Co-Founder of LegalZoom; James Park – Co-Founder & CEO of Fitbit, Inc; Kevin
Figure Technologies has launched a blockchain-powered solution that allows private companies to raise, manage, and trade equity on a single platform. Figure Equity Solutions is a full-stack equity management platform that supports seamless primaries and secondaries with automatic cap table updates pre-and-post-event.  To showcase the technology, the company successfully closed a secondary offering through its SEC-registered trading platform. Shares traded bilaterally, with instant settlement and minimal counterparty risk. The transaction also leveraged USDF, a new bank-backed, digital marker that allows for real-time settlement of securities transactions on the Provenance Blockchain.
Allvue Systems (Allvue), an alternative investment technology solutions provider, has formed a strategic partnership with Mirador to help limited partners (LPs) including endowments, foundations, and pensions better manage their technology and operations.  Mirador offers independent reporting services, data management, and technology advisory, utilising best-of-breed third-party reporting tools to help clients identify opportunities and risks within their portfolios. Through this partnership, Allvue’s clients will have the option to leverage Mirador’s data management and financial reporting expertise. LPs who leverage Allvue’s technology solutions can optimise their data collection and aggregation systems through Mirador’s managed service, enabling them to increase their operational efficiencies
The InsuResilience Investment Fund (IIF) managed by impact investment manager BlueOrchard Finance Ltd (BlueOrchard) is investing up to USD6.7 million in Probus Insurance Broker Private Limited (Probus), a retail insurtech firm based in India.   Probus offers climate insurance coverage in India, a country highly exposed to various climate risks. The firm targets the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable, where insurance penetration is currently very low. Probus has comprehensive, tailor-made product offering with more than 80 per cent of its reach in the financially weakest cities of the country and rural areas.  

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