Significant cybersecurity M&A deals announced by Arctic Wolf, Bugcrowd, Huntress, Palo Alto Networks, and Zscaler.
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Veza Security was recently valued at more than $800 million after raising $108 million in Series D funding.
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As the market matures and the broader economic landscape shifts, Bitcoin has once again found itself at a thrilling crossroads, with the entire crypto market watching closely as momentum builds on both sides of the chart. This moment of market volatility is a profound inflection point, where the interplay of rising institutional adoption and changing global macroeconomic conditions is converging.
Bitcoin is currently sitting at a thrilling crossroads. In an X post, an analyst known as CryptoCrewU has stated that BTC is witnessing the strongest bearish divergence in years, paired with a rare 2-week close below the 21-period Simple Moving Average (SMA) of this bull run.
Furthermore, the Relative Strength Index (RSI) is currently dipping into levels reminiscent of past pivotal moments in 2015, 2018, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 2022 bottoms. Meanwhile, the Stoch RSI has yet to cross upwards, hinting at the full extent of the potential move ahead.
While fear is at its peak in the market right now, history shows that buying during these market lows has consistently led to significant profits over the past 5 years. “Let data guide you, not emotions,” CryptoCrewU noted.
Trader_XO highlighted that since 2015, one pattern has remained remarkably consistent in Bitcoin’s cycle. Historically, whenever breaks below the 50-week Moving Average (MA), it has often signaled a deeper move toward the 200-week MA, or even the 300-week MA. Meanwhile, BTC tends to treat the 200-week MA as a major cycle support area.
The price has only dipped below the 300-week MA once in history, and anything trading below the 200-week MA has been relatively short-lived, aligning with the best part of the cycle lows. According to Trader_XO, if the price were to revisit those lower moving average levels, and the broader market context aligns, that area would be viewed as a high-probability buying opportunity, unless this time the move is different.
Bitcoin is finally showing signs of strength again. A Full-time crypto teacher, Sykodelic, has pointed out that for the first time since the drop from $116,000, the price has broken above its previous low-time-frame (LTF) range, with a strong push above the 50 SMA.
Since the $116,000 rejection, every time BTC attempts to move into an upper range, it gets rejected and makes new lows. This time, BTC has finally pushed higher. Currently, this is simply an LTF action, but these subtle shifts are exactly what to watch out for when it comes to understanding the nature of trend reversals.
A daily close above $87,000 will confirm the breakout of the trend. Sykodelic concluded that moving higher after a drop like that is intricate, and it can take time. Therefore, observe the signs and move accordingly to see how the daily close goes.
Cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks announced Wednesday it will acquire Chronosphere in a deal valued at $3.35 billion.
Founded in 2019, Chronosphere sells observability software that helps engineering teams spot problems quickly and keep cloud applications running. Palo Alto Networks said the acquisition will help it meet the massive data demands created by modern AI workloads.
Chronosphere CEO Martin Mao and CTO Rob Skillington first met in the Seattle area at Microsoft, where they worked on migrating Office to the cloud-based Office 365 format. They both later joined Uber’s engineering teams.
The company describes itself as a “distributed team” with major hubs in New York City, Seattle, and Vilnius. Mao is based in the Seattle region, along with several Chronosphere employees. The team, including Mao and Skillington, will join Palo Alto once the acquisition closes. Chronosphere has more than 250 employees.
On the company’s earnings call with analysts Wednesday, Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora described Chronosphere as “one of the fastest-growing software companies in history.” It counts two of the “premier LLMs” as customers.
Arora said existing observability tools were not built for the AI era and that full observability has become cost prohibitive for many organizations. Chronosphere, he said, can deliver observability at one-third the cost of other leading solutions.
He added that Chronosphere has “changed the observability model” with its combination of open source and architectural techniques.
When Palo Alto evaluated observability and data-pipeline vendors, Arora said the team was struck by Chronosphere’s engineering chops. “Generally, engineers have too much pride to tell you that somebody else is good,” he said. “But our team came back and said, ‘these guys are the best engineers we’ve run into.'”
Chronosphere reports more than $160 million in annual recurring revenue, growing at triple-digit rates, according to Palo Alto.
Chronosphere will remain “largely standalone” after the deal closes next year. “They are basically a bunch of really smart engineers and forward-deployed engineers, as well as a few salespeople,” Arora said. “So, we’re going to give them some support by introducing the right customers in very targeted fashion.”
The company’s investors include General Atlantic; Greylock Partners; Lux Capital; Addition; Founders Fund; Spark Capital; and Glynn Capital.
“When Rob Skillington and I started Chronosphere six years ago, we set out to build a next-generation observability platform capable of handling the most complex cloud native workloads,” Mao wrote on LinkedIn. “Today, we are the observability leader trusted by the world’s top AI and digital-native innovators.”
Earlier this year Palo Alto Networks also acquired Protect AI, a Seattle startup that helps companies monitor machine learning systems.
The move to acquire Chronosphere is the latest of several acquisitions in recent years and follows a massive $25 billion deal to acquire CyberArk.
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The cybersecurity company has launched Digital Security Teammate (DST), AI agents that investigate, triage, and escalate incidents when needed.
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UJET, a San Francisco-based company that sells AI-powered contact center technology, has acquired Spiral, a Seattle startup that helps businesses analyze customer conversations. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Spiral will operate as “Spiral by UJET,” continuing to support its customers as a standalone offering while also integrating into UJET’s cloud contact center platform.
Founded in 2018 by former Amazon engineers Elena Zhizhimontova and Andrew DiLosa, Spiral uses AI to automatically detect and categorize issues raised across phone calls, chats, emails, surveys and social media. The technology is designed to help companies uncover product and support problems. Customers include Owlet, Whitepages and Turo.
“UJET’s acquisition of Spiral will provide businesses with a unified view of all customer conversations for more proactive, personalized service,” UJET CEO Vasili Triant said in a statement.
Spiral previously raised nearly $7 million from investors including Trilogy Equity Partners, Bezos Expeditions, Techstars, Alumni Ventures Group, Ensemble, and the Alexa Fund. The startup has less than 10 employees — all will join UJET, including Zhizhimontova, now vice president of applied AI. The company competes in a growing category of startups applying AI to customer feedback.
Cisco plans to acquire NeuralFabric, a Seattle-area startup founded by a group of Microsoft veterans that makes back-end software for companies to build and run their own generative AI models. Financial terms were not disclosed.
The Silicon Valley enterprise tech mainstay said the deal will bolster its AI Canvas initiative, a generative UI and collaboration environment announced earlier this year.
In its announcement Thursday morning, Cisco highlighted NeuralFabric’s expertise in distributed systems, model training, and flexible deployment as a complement to its existing AI assistant, cybersecurity models, and data fabric strategy.
DJ Sampath, senior vice president for AI software and platforms, said in the announcement that the startup has “cracked a crucial part of this puzzle” by building technology that lets companies develop their own domain-specific small language models using proprietary data across cloud or on-premises environments.
NeuralFabric, based in Redmond, was founded in 2023 by former Microsoft Azure engineering veteran Weijie Lin (CEO), longtime Microsoft executive John deVadoss, AI entrepreneur Jesus Rodriguez (president), and cloud and security veteran Mark Baciak (CTO), with former Microsoft director Drew Gude (chief revenue officer) also listed as an early exec.
The startup employs about nine people, according to LinkedIn. Cisco said the acquisition is expected to close in the second quarter of its 2026 fiscal year (by the end of January), after which NeuralFabric’s team will join the company’s AI Software and Platform organization.
NeuralFabric had raised at least $5 million in funding as of February 2024 announcement. PitchBook lists investors including Collab+Currency, CMT Digital, and New Form Capital.
Semiconductor software giant Cadence Design Systems agreed to acquire ChipStack, a Seattle-based startup developing AI tools to speed up chip verification and design.
ChipStack emerged from Seattle’s AI2 Incubator in 2023 and raised more than $7 million. The startup built AI-powered agents that automate chip verification — traditionally one of the most time-intensive steps in semiconductor design.
The entire 20-person team is joining San Jose, Calif.-based Cadence, which said the acquisition will strengthen its AI-driven verification capabilities. Cadence and ChipStack previously partnered on various integrations.
Financial details were not disclosed, but investors saw a strong return on the deal, according to a spokesperson for ChipStack. The company’s investors include AI2 Incubator, Khosla Ventures, Cerberus Capital Management, Clear Ventures, and other angels.
ChipStack CEO and co-founder Kartik Hegde earned his PhD in computer science from University of Illinois in 2022 and had internships at Meta and NVIDIA. He founded ChipStack wtih CTO Hamid Shojaei, who previously worked at Lightmatter, Google, and Qualcomm.
“As ChipStack’s product adoption has grown, so has our ambition and vision,” Hedge wrote on LinkedIn. “When the opportunity came to join Cadence, it was clear to us that this is the best way to take our product to a wider audience, while expanding the feature set even faster.”
Jacob Colker, managing director at AI2 Incubator, described the founders as “elite AI talent building the next wave of companies — deep technical expertise meeting real-world impact.”
“They’ve built agentic AI that solves one of chip design’s biggest bottlenecks, accelerating verification by 70%,” he said in a statement. “This is exactly the kind of applied AI innovation that defines this new era of entrepreneurship.”
Malanta collects and analyzes digital breadcrumbs that attackers leave behind and then forecasts how and when they will be weaponized.
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Bugcrowd said the acquisition of Mayhem has nearly doubled its valuation — previously reported at over $1 billion.
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SPLX red teaming, asset management, and threat inspection technology will enable Zscaler to expand its Zero Trust Exchange platform.
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Significant cybersecurity M&A deals announced by Jamf, LevelBlue, Ping Identity, Twilio, and Veeam Software.
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Veeam Software, the data backup and recovery company that recently moved its headquarters to the Seattle area, announced plans to acquire Securiti AI for $1.725 billion.
Securiti AI, based in San Jose, Calif., helps enterprises manage data security posture, privacy, and compliance across cloud and software platforms. The deal aims to integrate Securiti’s Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) and “AI trust” technologies with Veeam’s core data resilience tools, giving companies a single platform to manage, secure, and recover their data while safely deploying artificial intelligence systems.
“We’ve entered a new era for data. It’s no longer about just protecting data from cyber threats and unforeseen disasters; it’s also about identifying all your data, ensuring it’s governed and trusted to power AI transparently,” Veeam CEO Anand Eswaran said in a statement.
Rehan Jalil, Securiti’s CEO and a cybersecurity entrepreneur, will join Veeam as president of security and AI once the deal closes, expected in the fourth quarter.
Securiti, founded in 2019, raised a $75 million Series C round in 2022.
Veeam, which reached a $15 billion valuation earlier this year, relocated its headquarters from Columbus, Ohio, to the Seattle area in 2024, citing the region’s deep technical talent pool. The company employs about 6,000 people globally and protects data for more than 550,000 customers, including two-thirds of the Global 2000.
Veeam moved its headquarters from Switzerland to the U.S. following its March 2020 acquisition by private equity firm Insight Partners — a deal that valued the company at $5 billion at the time.
Veeam CEO Anand Eswaran, who joined the company in December 2021, previously worked in the Seattle area as the corporate vice president of Microsoft Enterprise. He was most recently president at RingCentral.
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