Category Archives: Mergers and Acquisitions

Forescout acquires medical IoT security company CyberMDX

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Silicon Valley cybersecurity company Forescout Technologies said Tuesday that it is acquiring CyberMDX, a medical-device security company known for its research into potential cyberthreats against health care technology. CyberMDX is a natural fit for Forescout, which focuses on securing connected devices and operational technology (OT) for large organizations — including what the industry calls the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT). Terms of the deal were not disclosed. “Cybersecurity for IoMT, much like cybersecurity for OT devices, requires specific expertise and technologies,” Forescout CEO Wael Mohamed said. “We are pleased to have the CyberMDX team join Forescout as we continue delivering new capabilities on our market-leading platform and grow our R&D center.” Research by CyberMDX has been responsible for shedding light on critical vulnerabilities in widely used medical imaging devices, patient monitors, anesthesia machines and infusion pumps. Forescout’s platform specializes in “device intelligence and network fabric technology,” or finding and classifying […]

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Using Open-Source Intelligence for Mergers and Acquisitions

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Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have been challenging for IT and security teams for as long as businesses have relied on technology. Every company’s IT system is as unique as the company itself. Your business may run on commonly used tools and apps, and industry best practices to deploy and configure them. Nevertheless, these systems get […]

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Fivetran hauls in $565M on $5.6B valuation, acquires competitor HVR for $700M

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Fivetran, the data connectivity startup, had a big day today. For starters it announced a $565 million investment on a $5.6 billion valuation, but it didn’t stop there. It also announced its second acquisition this year, snagging HVR, a data integration competitor that had raised more than $50 million, for $700 million in cash and […] Continue reading Fivetran hauls in $565M on $5.6B valuation, acquires competitor HVR for $700M→

Ramp and Brex draw diverging market plans with M&A strategies

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From a high level, all of the recent deal-making in corporate cards and spend management shows that it’s not enough to just help companies track what employees are expensing these days. Continue reading Ramp and Brex draw diverging market plans with M&A strategies→

How Cisco keeps its startup acquisition engine humming

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Cisco has a rich history of buying its way to global success. And it’s remained quite active, acquiring more than 30 startups over the last four years for a total of 229 over the life of the company. Continue reading How Cisco keeps its startup acquisition engine humming→

Cisco beefing up app monitoring portfolio with acquisition of Epsagon for $500M

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Cisco announced on Friday that it’s acquiring Israeli applications monitoring startup Epsagon at a price pegged at $500 million. The purchase gives Cisco a more modern microservices-focused component for its growing applications monitoring portfolio. The Israeli business publication Globes reported it had gotten confirmation from Cisco that the deal was for $500 million, but Cisco would […] Continue reading Cisco beefing up app monitoring portfolio with acquisition of Epsagon for $500M→

Marvell nabs Innovium for $1.1B as it delves deeper into cloud ethernet switches

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Marvell announced this morning it intends to acquire Innovium for $1.1 billion in an all-stock deal. The startup, which raised over $400 million according to Crunchbase data, makes networking ethernet switches optimized for the cloud. Marvell president and CEO Matt Murphy sees Innovium as a complementary piece to the $10 billion Inphi acquisition last year, […] Continue reading Marvell nabs Innovium for $1.1B as it delves deeper into cloud ethernet switches→

Salesforce steps into RPA buying Servicetrace and teaming it with Mulesoft

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Over the last couple of years, Robotic Process Automation or RPA has been red hot with tons of investor activity and M&A from companies like SAP, IBM and ServiceNow. UIPath had a major IPO in April and has a market cap over $30 billion. I wondered when Salesforce would get involved and today the company […] Continue reading Salesforce steps into RPA buying Servicetrace and teaming it with Mulesoft→

ZoomInfo drops $575M on Chorus.ai as AI shakes up the sales market

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ZoomInfo announced this morning it intends to acquire conversational sales intelligence tool Chorus.AI for $575 million. Shares of ZoomInfo are unchanged in pre-market trading following the news, per Yahoo Finance data. Sales intelligence, Chorus’s market, is a hot space that uses AI to “listen” to sales conversations to help improve interactions between salespeople and customers. […] Continue reading ZoomInfo drops $575M on Chorus.ai as AI shakes up the sales market→

Network security startup ExtraHop skips and jumps to $900M exit

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Bain Capital Private Equity and Crosspoint Capital Partners are buying a security solution that could be useful as more companies find themselves with some assets on-site and some in the cloud. Continue reading Network security startup ExtraHop skips and jumps to $900M exit→