Sources: Alphabet shelves efforts to acquire HubSpot after the companies failed to reach a point of detailed discussions around due diligence; HUBS drops 10%+
Shares of HubSpot Inc. (HUBS Quick Quote Tom Jowitt / Silicon UK : Alphabet Walks Away From HubSpot Deal George Fitzmaurice / ITPro : Alphabet's HubSpot acquisition is dead in the water Ryan Gould / B...
SecureW2, whose zero-trust platform helps companies use certificate-based authentication from identity software providers, raised $80M from Insight Partners
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Critical Start, a managed detection and response service for enterprises, raises $215M from Vista Equity Partners
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Aviva Links, which aims to make chips to enable low-latency data-sharing in connected cars, raises $26.5M Series A led by Marvell Technology's founders
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Gartner: tech M&A activity in the US, Canada, and Europe peaked in Q4 2020 to reach 1,264 transactions, beating the previous high of 1,070 recorded in Q4 2018
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Honeywell says it is buying Sparta Systems, which makes regulatory and quality management software for the life sciences industry, for $1.3B
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Cellwize, a mobile network automation and orchestration provider, raises $32M Series B led by Intel Capital and Qualcomm Ventures
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Filing: ahead of Snowflake's IPO, Salesforce and Berkshire Hathaway both commit to buy $250M worth of Snowflake stock; IPO range to value it at ~$21B-$23.7B
Appeal of the cloud data storage platform lies not only in its triple-digit sales growth Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC : Snowflake IPO gets vote of confidence as Berkshire, Salesforce agree to buy shares...
Menlo Security, which offers an isolation platform that separates enterprise networks from the public web, raises $75M led by JP Morgan Asset Management
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Cato Networks, which makes software-defined wide-area networking tools, raises $55M led by Lightspeed Venture Partners
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