Mergers, Acquisitions, and Funding Tracker
Reported mergers, acquisitions, and funding across the cybersecurity industry, public and private companies alike, aggregated from the tracked news feeds. This is market context, not a security signal.
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Cylake, a startup founded by Palo Alto Networks founder Nir Zuk, raised $245 million to develop an on-premises cybersecurity platform that integrates hardware, storage, security software, and local artificial intelligence (AI). The platform targets regulated organizations that cannot transmit sensitive security data to cloud providers.
Palo Alto NetworksKiteworks acquired Bonfy.artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance its data governance capabilities with artificial intelligence (AI) integration. The acquisition price, estimated in the tens of millions of dollars, remains undisclosed. The deal aims to address gaps in AI-driven data management for Kiteworks' platform.
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TRM Labs achieved a $2 billion valuation by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to integrate blockchain transaction data with ownership registries, corporate records, and threat intelligence. The platform enables investigators to map criminal and nation-state networks more comprehensively and identify intervention opportunities.
Thirty-three cybersecurity mergers and acquisitions were announced in August 2026, involving firms including Brinqa, Cribl, Echo, Fortinet, Kiteworks, Palo Alto Networks, and Visa. The roundup captures deal activity across multiple segments of the security vendor ecosystem.
FortinetPalo Alto NetworksForescout Technologies expanded its global partner program with the Mission: Possible channel enablement roadshow, which has engaged over 1,300 partner professionals across 90 cities in 40 countries since May. The company recognized several partners for advancing within its Envision Partner Program, ranging from TIC Defense's promotion to Silver Reseller to four organizations elevated to Platinum Reseller status. Organizations using Forescout solutions reported discovering 50% more unknown IoT devices and reducing breach containment time by 98.7%.
Kevin Mandia, founder and former chief executive of Mandiant before its acquisition by Google in September 2022, joined Amazon's Board of Directors on September 8, 2026. Mandia brings more than 30 years of cybersecurity experience across public and private sectors. Amazon highlighted cybersecurity as a critical organizational risk and cited artificial intelligence (AI) advances as a factor accelerating the threat landscape.
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GoogleFactor Cybersecurity sued SecurityScorecard, alleging the company made false intellectual property claims and engaged in a retaliation campaign that damaged Factor's business relationships and delayed a $25 million funding round. The complaint names interference with employees, partners, and investors as part of the alleged conduct.
HelmGuard announced a $7.3 million funding round to expand its governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) and security platform. The company plans to increase its presence in the US market and grow its engineering and go-to-market teams.
Proofpoint is in advanced talks to acquire Varonis Systems, a data security firm, with a potential announcement expected in the coming weeks. If completed, the deal would represent the largest pure-play cybersecurity acquisition of 2026, exceeding Accenture's proposed $3.25 billion purchase of Dragos.
Cylake, founded by Palo Alto Networks' Nir Zuk, raised $290 million to develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-native security platform designed for highly regulated organizations that require on-premises or private infrastructure rather than public cloud solutions. The funding precedes the company's platform beta launch.
Palo Alto NetworksSeven of eight major cybersecurity and technology vendors reported at least 25% annual year-over-year sales growth, yet five saw stock declines following earnings announcements. Investors prioritized profitability metrics over growth rates, while executives discussed artificial intelligence (AI) agent implementations across security, identity, and enterprise infrastructure.
Nvidia announced a $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, a machine learning model platform. The deal may enable Nvidia to integrate security resources and model evaluation tools into the platform for enterprise customers.
Nvidia announced a $13 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that hosts and distributes open-source AI models. The purchase reflects Nvidia's strategy to deepen its involvement in the open-source AI ecosystem.
Threat actors running the "Phantom Deal" campaign conduct detailed research on large enterprises to trick midlevel employees into authorizing substantial financial transfers through fraudulent merger and acquisition scenarios.
HiddenLayer raised $100 million as enterprises accelerate investment in artificial intelligence (AI) security. The funding reflects growing demand for security solutions that monitor not only AI agents but also the tools and integrations they employ.
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DuckDB creators Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt joined Amazon as employees, but the open source analytical database remains free under the MIT license. The DuckDB Foundation maintains governance of DuckDB, DuckLake, and Quack, and Amazon has not acquired the project or altered its licensing terms.
Amazon Web ServicesPalo Alto Networks announced the acquisition of an artificial intelligence (AI) agent platform called Console. The company reported quarterly revenue growth of 34% and strength in next-generation security annual recurring revenue (ARR) during the same announcement.
Palo Alto NetworksPrevalent artificial intelligence (AI), a bootstrapped company, secured $22 million in funding to expand its data fabric platform for secure and reliable operation of artificial intelligence (AI) agents at scale. The funding round marks a milestone for the vendor's growth beyond its initial bootstrap phase.
Brinqa has acquired PlexTrac to add remediation validation capabilities to its exposure management platform. The combined offering aims to help security teams identify, prioritize, and remediate exposures while verifying that fixes remain effective.
Xpander announced a 7.5 million dollar funding round for its platform that manages and governs artificial intelligence (AI) agents. The technology uses a universal agent harness to execute AI agents as portable workloads and dynamically renders interfaces on demand.
Wiz announced the winners of its 2026 Partner Alliance Awards recognizing partners, integrators, and organizations advancing cloud security, artificial intelligence (AI) risk management, and security operations center (SOC) modernization across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Australia and New Zealand regions.
Fortinet acquired Virtue artificial intelligence (AI) to expand its artificial intelligence (AI) security capabilities as organizations increasingly deploy AI agents and autonomous systems. The deal addresses expanded attack surfaces that now encompass AI model components, application programming interface (API) calls, and supporting infrastructure beyond traditional network and endpoint targets. This strengthens Fortinet's existing AI security offerings, including FortiGate Hyperscale Firewall.
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FortinetCyera acquired Oasis Security for $1 billion to merge data security and identity management into a unified control plane designed for artificial intelligence (AI) agents. The combined platform will shift privileged access management from static role-based rules to dynamic controls aligned with business context.
Twenty-one cybersecurity mergers and acquisitions were announced in July 2026 across major vendors including Barracuda, CrowdStrike, Cyera, Okta, Palo Alto Networks, and Qualcomm. The activity reflects continued consolidation and growth investment in the cybersecurity market during the period.
Palo Alto NetworksOktaCrowdStrikeBarracudaTeam8, an Israeli venture capital firm focused on cybersecurity, raised an additional $365 million in funding, bringing its total assets under management to nearly $2 billion since its founding in 2014.
Mindgard, a cybersecurity startup focused on artificial intelligence (AI) system protection, secured $30 million in funding. The company plans to deploy the capital across product development, engineering, sales, and marketing expansion.
Silent Push, a cybersecurity intelligence company, ranked No. 184 on the 2026 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in America, achieving 1,744% revenue growth over three years. The company provides threat intelligence and preemptive defense capabilities to government agencies and Fortune 500 companies through its Indicators of Future Attack data platform.
MicrosoftOracleThis is a news roundup covering endpoint security and network monitoring developments for the week of June 26th, featuring updates from companies including Expel, Secure Code Warrior, and Hack the Box.
Unitel, Angola's largest telecommunications company, suffered a cyberattack that caused service outages on the day of its initial public offering. The company is working to restore operations following the incident.
Oligo has raised $60 million in funding to support product development and expand its go-to-market strategy. The investment will accelerate the company's runtime security capabilities and sales operations.
Zenity, an artificial intelligence (AI) security company, raised $125 million in Series C funding. The capital will support product innovation, global expansion, and customer experience improvements.
Visa announced a $2.4 billion acquisition of BioCatch, a fraud intelligence firm specializing in behavioral and device analysis. The deal aims to strengthen Visa's capabilities in helping financial institutions defend against account takeovers, scams, and digital fraud.
Horizon3 secured $250 million in venture financing to support its business expansion. The funding reflects the company's growth trajectory in the current market environment.
- Rapid7 Expands UK and Ireland Channel Presence Through Strategic Partnership with Exclusive Networks
Rapid7 announced a strategic distribution partnership with Exclusive Networks to expand its presence in the United Kingdom and Ireland cybersecurity market. The partnership aims to empower channel partners with technical expertise and go-to-market support while helping organizations adopt integrated security operations platforms that combine exposure management, threat detection, and automation.
Balance Theory closed a Series A funding round of $19 million led by SYN Ventures, with continued backing from DataTribe and TEDCO. The company helps enterprises manage cybersecurity investments.
Cybersecurity seed funding patterns shifted in Q2 2026, with deal volume declining while larger rounds captured an increasing share of available capital. DataTribe's quarterly report shows nine-figure funding rounds now account for 81% of venture investment, suggesting capital concentration at later stages despite rising founder interest in pitching early-stage ventures.
Bank of America announced an acquisition of MDSec, a cybersecurity firm, adding approximately 65 security professionals to its UK operations. The deal expands the bank's in-house security capabilities and headcount.
Okta acquired artificial intelligence (AI) security startup Permiso for approximately $200 million. The acquisition adds identity threat detection capabilities focused on securing AI agents and other non-human identities in cloud environments.
OktaDataBahn, a data pipeline management company, secured $40 million in funding to accelerate research and product development for its agentic data control plane technology.
Huntress, a security vendor, reached $250 million in annual recurring revenue. CEO Kyle Hanslovan emphasizes that the milestone resulted from pursuing the company's core mission to protect small and medium-sized businesses rather than from chasing a specific revenue target.
Cantina, a startup focused on vulnerability identification and remediation, has emerged from stealth mode with $8 million in funding. The company operates a community-powered platform that uses agentic security capabilities to prioritize and address vulnerabilities.
Onyx Security secured $113 million in a Series B round. The funding brings its total capital to $153 million. The company says the capital will support development of artificial intelligence (AI) agents controls.
Wiz, the cloud security company acquired by Google, published an update on its first six months of integration, highlighting acceleration of its security platform and continued focus on multicloud environments.
GoogleMate Security raised $35 million in funding to support expansion of its customer support, sales, and research and development teams for its agentic security operations center platform.
The company completed a Series F funding round of $190 million, increasing its valuation beyond the prior $1.6 billion mark. This funding demonstrates continued investor confidence in the endpoint security and ransomware defense vendor.
Spur, an IP intelligence platform company, secured $200 million in funding to expand and accelerate its operations. The investment will support scaling across the company's infrastructure and business development efforts.
Cyera is acquiring Oasis Security, a provider of agentic access management tools, in a deal valued at $1 billion. The acquisition follows Oasis Security's Series B funding round of $120 million.
Hush Security announced a $30 million funding round to support its artificial intelligence (AI) agent governance platform. The company plans to deploy capital toward expanding engineering and sales operations, strengthening ecosystem partnerships, and scaling corporate integrations.
Rapid7 has expanded its strategic distribution partnership with Exclusive Networks to serve Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg as organizations face increasing regulatory requirements such as NIS2 and DORA. The partnership aims to provide channel partners with technical resources, training, and support to help customers unify security operations across exposure management, threat detection, and incident response. Rapid7 positions this expanded relationship as a response to growing demand for integrated security platforms and specialist guidance in an increasingly complex threat landscape.
Beelzebub, a company operating a hacker-trapping platform, secured $3.4 million in funding. The capital will support expansion of its research team, establishment of offices in Rome and San Francisco, and acquisition of new clients.
Abstract, a security operations platform company, has raised $25 million in its latest funding round, bringing total capital raised to approximately $50 million. The company plans to use the investment to expand its composable security operations platform.
Palo Alto Networks announced an acquisition of Embrace, an observability platform provider, extending its expansion into monitoring and observability tools beyond traditional security offerings. This follows the company's January acquisition of Chronosphere, signaling a strategic shift toward broader infrastructure visibility capabilities.
Palo Alto NetworksStrongestLayer, a security startup, announced a seed funding extension of $4.1 million. The company plans to use the capital to accelerate its market launch and expand its platform offerings.
Empirical Security has secured 25 million dollars in Series A funding. The company will allocate the investment toward advancing its threat prediction and discovery product offerings.
Beacon Security, a startup focused on security data platforms, has raised $13 million in funding. The company provides detection, hunting, and asset protection capabilities across multiple environments at scale.
Risk Ledger, a British firm, secured $32 million in Series B funding for its collaborative platform designed to help organizations manage supply chain security risks.
Oak, an identity management startup, has completed a $60 million funding round and launched from stealth mode. The company has developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Identity Operating System designed to manage and govern identities across an organization's entire environment.
Huntress has launched a buyout program that pays out the remaining contract terms of customers who switch to Huntress from competing vendors. This allows organizations to migrate immediately without penalty rather than waiting for existing contracts to expire.
Cribl has acquired CardinalOps to integrate detection engineering capabilities into its platform. The acquisition enables security operations teams to map detection rules to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, identify coverage gaps, and operationalize threat intelligence.
Valarian, a UK-based cybersecurity firm, has raised $50 million in funding for its ACRA (Sovereign Infrastructure Control Layer) technology, bringing total funding to $70 million. The company is developing infrastructure control solutions for sovereign and critical systems.
Silent Push has launched an official Channel Partner Program and dedicated partner portal to scale its threat intelligence platform across distributors, MSSPs, systems integrators, and resellers. The company offers partners branded assets, collateral, and enablement resources to market its Indicators of Future Attack (IOFA) technology, which provides visibility into adversary infrastructure before weaponization. The program formalizes existing partnerships across EMEA, APJ, and other regions, with new partner onboarding and training content planned for the coming weeks.
A total of 37 cybersecurity mergers and acquisitions were announced during June 2026, involving major companies including 1Password, Accenture, Cisco, F5, Rubrik, and SailPoint. The article provides a roundup of these transaction announcements in the cybersecurity sector.
CiscoF5Israeli startup QIZ Security has raised $17 million in funding for a platform that manages cryptographic posture and post-quantum cryptography governance. The platform appears designed to help organizations assess and manage their cryptographic infrastructure as they prepare for quantum-resistant algorithms.
8Layers, a Spanish startup focused on digital identity protection, has completed an extended pre-seed funding round raising 2.9 million dollars, just two months after its platform launch.
A cybersecurity startup called IRIS C2 that claims to acquire zero-day exploits and offer million-dollar payouts is operated by Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl, two convicted felons with a documented history of creating fake intelligence companies and spreading disinformation. The pair have faced multiple criminal convictions and civil judgments related to robocall schemes, telecommunications fraud, and civil rights violations. IRIS C2 is registered as a federal contractor but does not appear to be executing any direct government contracts.
The company Keyfactor announced a funding round exceeding $1 billion to advance its machine identity, public key infrastructure (PKI), and cryptographic security platform. The investment is intended to support product development for emerging threats from artificial intelligence and post-quantum computing.
IBM and Red Hat are dedicating 20,000 engineers to Project Lightwell, a new service focused on securing the open source software supply chain, prompted by vulnerability findings from Anthropic's Mythos research. The initiative reflects growing industry concern about security gaps in widely-used open source components and the scale of effort required to address them.
LinuxCisco is acquiring Astrix and WideField to add Network Hardware Inventory (NHI) capabilities to its security platform. The company is positioning identity as the primary control mechanism for securing an agentic workforce, joining other vendors pursuing this strategic direction.
CiscoWiz, a cloud and artificial intelligence security company, has joined Google. The acquisition marks a consolidation in the cloud security vendor landscape.
GoogleWiz has announced the Wiz Partner Alliance, a new initiative for partner engagement in cloud security. The program appears designed to strengthen collaboration between Wiz and its partners in the cloud security space.
Huntress has acquired Inside Agent to expand its security offerings with an identity and access provisioning management (ISPM) solution. The acquisition aims to strengthen Huntress's capabilities in proactive defense against cyberattacks through identity security enhancements.
Huntress marked a decade of operations with a retrospective highlighting key milestones and lessons learned in defending against evolving threats. The company emphasized its role in community-driven cybersecurity and innovation throughout its ten-year history.
Elastic announced its acquisition of Keep Alerting Ltd, an open source alert management and workflow automation platform. Keep consolidates and deduplicates alerts, correlates events to reduce noise, and automates incident remediation through workflow-as-code and visual interfaces. The companies plan to integrate Keep's capabilities with Elasticsearch and Kibana while maintaining Keep as open source software.
ElasticCloud security firm Wiz announced an acquisition of Dazz, a company focused on application security posture management (ASPM). The combined entity aims to integrate remediation capabilities across the software development lifecycle, from code to cloud deployment.
Huntress has joined the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA) to enhance security capabilities for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) using Microsoft tools. This partnership aims to strengthen defenses against advanced cyber threats through integrated security solutions.
MicrosoftHuntress has received an Inc. Power Partner Award for 2024, marking the second consecutive year the cybersecurity company has received this recognition. The award acknowledges contributions from the company's partners.
Wiz has joined the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association, a collaboration program focused on advancing cloud security. The partnership aims to support Microsoft's efforts to enhance security capabilities across cloud environments.
MicrosoftWiz has been named Microsoft's Commercial Marketplace 2024 Partner of the Year in recognition of its go-to-market and joint-selling efforts. The award acknowledges Wiz's collaboration with Microsoft and performance within the Microsoft partner ecosystem.
MicrosoftHuntress announced a Series D funding round led by CEO Kyle Hanslovan. The investment will support the company's continued growth and partner enablement in the cybersecurity market.
A company announced a $1 billion funding round that valued the organization at $12 billion. The announcement included acknowledgment of stakeholders including customers, investors, and employees.
Wiz has acquired Gem Security to strengthen its cloud detection and response capabilities. The acquisition is part of Wiz's strategy to consolidate technology and enhance threat detection offerings for cloud environments.
Wiz has acquired Raftt, a developer-focused security tool. This acquisition is intended to help Wiz accelerate its efforts to build products that appeal to both security and development teams.
PwC UK and Wiz announced a strategic partnership to provide enhanced cloud security solutions to customers. The alliance combines PwC's consulting expertise with Wiz's cloud security platform capabilities.
Huntress has released an update on its Security Awareness Training platform one year after acquiring Curricula, highlighting improvements and progress made during that period. The announcement reflects the company's continued development of its awareness training offerings for organizations.
Huntress closed a $60 million Series C funding round led by Sapphire Ventures, with continued participation from existing investors Forgepoint Capital and JMI Equity. The investment aims to support the company's work helping small and medium-sized businesses improve their security posture.
MGM Studios' Chief Information Security Officer discusses how the organization uses Wiz to enable collaboration and transparency across business units during a merger. The article highlights approaches to security governance and organizational integration during a significant corporate transaction.
Wiz reached a $10 billion valuation in just three years from its founding, becoming the world's largest cybersecurity unicorn and the fastest SaaS company to achieve this milestone.
Wiz, a cloud security company, has achieved 100 million dollars in annual recurring revenue within 18 months of launch, making it reportedly the fastest-growing software company to reach that milestone. The company serves hundreds of major organizations and focuses on enabling secure cloud development.
Wiz, a cloud security company, has added Emily Heath to its board of directors and expanded its executive team with experienced security leaders from major technology and professional services firms. The company is continuing to scale its leadership structure to support ongoing growth.
OktaWiz, a cloud security vendor, has achieved rapid growth, reaching $100 million annual recurring revenue within 18 months of reaching $1 million ARR. The company now serves hundreds of customers focused on cloud infrastructure protection and innovation acceleration.
Huntress has acquired Curricula, a story-based security awareness training platform. The acquisition is part of Huntress's strategy to expand its security offerings to small and medium-sized businesses and enterprises.
Huntress has donated $100,000 to the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD) bug bounty program. The contribution reflects Huntress's commitment to supporting the managed service provider (MSP) community's cybersecurity efforts through vulnerability research and disclosure initiatives.
Wiz announced completion of its Series C funding round, achieving a $6 billion valuation within 18 months of operation. The company positions itself as a solution for organizations struggling to manage increasingly complex cloud environments.
Wiz, a cloud security company, raised an additional $250 million in funding during the first half of 2021, bringing its total funding to $350 million. The capital injection from investors including Sequoia and Salesforce enabled the company to expand its headcount from 25 to 120 employees during that period.
SalesforceWiz completed its Series B funding round with an additional $120 million investment from Salesforce Ventures and Blackstone, along with participation from Aglaé Ventures. The round was previously announced in March and has now closed with these additional backers joining the effort.
SalesforceHuntress announced a Series B funding round as part of its growth strategy. The company aims to expand its platform capabilities to enhance security protection for its customers.
Wiz, a cloud security company, has raised $100 million in Series A funding led by Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Insight Partners, and Cyberstarts. The funding marks the company's emergence from stealth mode as it pursues its mission in cloud security.
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