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5 min read · 25 January 2016
3 min read · 22 January 2016
ForeScout Technologies Inc. said Thursday it raised $76 million in additional financing led by Wellington Management Company LLP. Campbell, California-based ForeScout, which provides “agentless” cybersecurity, said it is valued at $1 billion.
2 min read · 21 January 2016
Sentenai said Thursday that it raised $1.8 million in Seed funding from Flybridge Capital Partners, Founder Collective, Project 11 Ventures and Hyperplane Venture Capital. Boston-based Sentenai provides a cloud service that connects intelligent systems to the data.
2 min read · 21 January 2016
Malwarebytes said Thursday it raised $50 million in Series B funding from Fidelity Management and Research Company. San Jose, California-based Malwarebytes provides advanced malware prevention and remediation solutions.
3 min read · 21 January 2016
MariaDB Corp said Thursday that it raised $9 million in equity financing. Investors include Intel Capital and California Technology Ventures. The company said it named Michael Howard its CEO and Michael "Monty" Widenius its CFO effective Jan. 1. MariaDB provides open-source database solutions for SaaS, cloud, and on-premises applications.
3 min read · 21 January 2016
Bryan, Garnier & Co is merging with Cartagena Capital GmbH. Financial terms weren’t announced. Munich-based Cartagena is a technology advisory boutique. The new firm will be called Bryan, Garnier & Co. GmbH.
2 min read · 21 January 2016
Foros said Wednesday that Lonne Jaffe has joined the firm as an Advisory Director. Jaffe is the former CEO of Syncsort and a former senior M&A and strategy executive at IBM and CA Technologies.
3 min read · 21 January 2016
Neuberger Berman said Wednesday that its third global private equity co-investment fund closed at its hard cap of $1.5 billion. The target of NB Strategic Co-Investment Partners III LP was $1.25 billion. NBCIP III seeks to invest in deals alongside private equity firms in their core areas of expertise. Investors of the fund include approximately 30 institutional clients includes public pension plans, foundations, corporate pension plans, and financial companies.
3 min read · 20 January 2016
The Gores Group said Wednesday it has completed the sale of Unify to Atos SE. Financial terms weren’t announced. Munich-based Unify was a joint venture between The Gores Group (51%) and Siemens AG (49%). Unify is an integrated communication solutions provider.
2 min read · 20 January 2016
