Another month of robust cyber security vendor transactions is in the books. Late stage investment into pre-IPO infosec vendors pushes November’s funding over the one billion dollar mark. We also tallied fourteen vendor acquisitions; that’s the most in one month since we started tracking in May.
Here’s a detailed look at infosec investment activity.
November’s 29 cyber security funding rounds and mergers & acquisitions
| Vendor | Market Segment | Activity Type | Acquiring Co. | Financials |
| Symphonic Software | Dynamic Authorization | Acquisition | Ping Identity | Undisclosed |
| Verisign Public DNS | DNS | Acquisition | Neustar | Undisclosed |
| Cado Security | Cyber Forensics | Seed | $1.5M | |
| Perch Security | Threat Detection | Acquisition | ConnectWise | $80M |
| PAS Global | OT Security | Acquisition | Hexagon | Undisclosed |
| Flowmon Networks | NDR / Monitoring | Acquisition | Kemp | Undisclosed |
| Dataguise | Data Security | Acquisition | PKWARE | Undisclosed |
| Isovalent | Cloud Native Networking/Security | Funding, A-round | $29M | |
| SentinelOne | Endpoint | Funding, F-round | $267M | |
| Expanse | Attack Surface Management | Acquisition | Palo Alto Networks | $800M |
| CloudAlly | Backup / Recovery | Acquisition | Zix | Undisclosed |
| StratoZen | Security as a Service for MSSPs | Acquisition | ConnectWise | Undisclosed |
| Fyde | Zero Trust network access | Acquisition | Barracuda Networks | Undisclosed |
| Menlo Security | Web / SASE | Funding, E-round | $100M | |
| Oversecured | Mobile Security | Seed | $1M | |
| Harbr | Secure big data exchange | Funding, A-round | $38.5M | |
| Cato Networks | SASE | Funding, E-round | $130M | |
| Gretel | Data Anonymization | Funding, A-round | $12M | |
| Abnormal Security | Email Security | Funding, B-round | $50M | |
| Deepfence | Protecting cloud-native workloads | Funding, A-round | $9.5M | |
| Build.security | Authorization Policy Management | Seed | $6M | |
| CRFT | Security no-code automation | Acquisition | Flashpoint | Undisclosed |
| sfApex | Data Protection/Governance | Acquisition | Druva | Undisclosed |
| Forter | Fraud Detection | Funding, E-round | $125M | |
| CyberLynx | Consultancy | Acquisition | Acronis | Undisclosed |
| Fireeye | Threat Intelligence | Funding | $400M | |
| Respond Software | XDR | Acquisition | Fireeye | $186M |
| DefenseStorm | Banking Security | Funding, B-round | $19M | |
| Lightspin | Cloud Security | Seed |
$4M |
Sources of data: SecurityWeek | Crunchbase News | Venture Beat | TechCrunch | Dark Reading | Help Net Security | ZDNet | Security Boulevard | Infosec Magazine | CRN | SiliconANGLE
Click here for October’s cyber security vendor transactions
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