At a glance.
- Orca Security acquires Opus.
- Valarian emerges from stealth with $20 million in seed funding.
Mergers and acquisitions.
Portland, Oregon-based cloud security firm Orca Security has acquired automated vulnerability management company Opus. Orca stated, "This strategic acquisition brings to Orca a world-class team and foundational technology to lead the company’s next phase: evolving from observation and prioritization to agentic AI-based remediation and prevention."
Palo Alto, California-based hybrid infrastructure visibility firm Virtana has acquired Austin-based IT monitoring and event intelligence company Zenoss. Virtana stated, "This strategic acquisition aims to bridge the gap between service visibility and infrastructure control in hybrid environments. The increased scale of Virtana and Zenoss will enable greater opportunity for accelerated investment and innovation."
Abu Dhabi-based cybersecurity firm CPX has acquired Dubai-headquartered continuous threat exposure management platform spiderSilk. SpiderSilk says the acquisition will allow it to "scale faster, amplify our global impact, and expand into new international markets."
Federal systems integrator Tyto Athene has acquired cyber and cloud compliance company stackArmor. Both companies are based in Northern Virginia. Dennis Kelly, CEO of Tyto Athene, stated, “stackArmor’s innovative cyber, compliance, and cloud automation solutions will immediately enhance our ability to support critical missions across defense, national security, and public safety sectors. We’re excited to welcome co-founders Gaurav ‘GP’ Pal and Fawad Siraj and the entire stackArmor team to the Tyto family as we work together to help our customers achieve mission success."
Austin-headquartered technology consultancy Qubika has acquired Nashville-based cybersecurity firm Nitra Security. Quibika stated, "Nitra Security brings to Qubika a highly specialized team with significant experience in cybersecurity architecture and safeguarding critical infrastructure."
Investments and exits.
London-based enforced isolation and compartmentalized infrastructure provider Valarian has emerged from stealth with $7 million in new funding, bringing its total seed funding to $20 million. The latest investment was led by Scout Ventures and Artis Ventures. The company says it "will use the new capital to expand its government partnerships, develop additional deployment pathways, and bring platform-level containment to environments previously reliant on retrofitted security measures."
San Francisco-based code review platform provider CodeAnt AI has raised $2 million in seed funding from Y Combinator, VitalStage Ventures, Salil Deshpande, Accomplice VC, DeVC, Transpose Platform Entrepreneurs First, and angel investors. SecurityWeek says the company will use the funding to expand the company's engineering and business development teams and to scale its platform.
Executive moves.
WatchGuard has named Vats Srivatsan as interim CEO as the company's longtime chief executive, Prakash Panjwani, transitions to strategic advisor.
Keeper Security has appointed Shane Barney as CISO.
FireMon has named Alex Bender as Chief Marketing Officer.