Archives: Transactions

Boston Meridian is pleased to announce the acquisition of Threat Stack by F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV). Threat Stack is a leading provider of cloud security and compliance for infrastructure and applications. Their Cloud Security Platform delivers full stack security observability across the cloud management console, host, container, orchestration, managed containers, and serverless layers.

“Applications are the backbone of today’s modern businesses, and protecting them is mission critical for our customers,” said Haiyan Song, EVP of Security at F5. “Threat Stack brings technology and talent that will strengthen F5’s security capabilities and further our adaptive applications vision with broader cloud observability and actionable security insights for customers.”

F5’s application and API protection solutions combined with Threat Stack’s cloud security capabilities and expertise will enhance visibility across application infrastructure and workloads, making it easier for customers to adopt consistent security in any cloud. A core tenet of adaptive applications is their capacity to protect themselves by detecting and mitigating threats in real time. Threat Stack’s proactive risk identification and real-time threat detection combined with the breadth of F5’s application insights and controls will accelerate the delivery of this capability to customers.

Boston Meridian is an innovative investment bank that provides M&A and capital raising advisory services to leading technology companies. We leverage senior partner expertise to unlock the strategic value of technology and achieve rapid and unparalleled results for our clients.

Boston Meridian is pleased to announce the acquisition of Carve Systems by iVision. Carve is a leading provider of security services to assess risk, proactively find threats, remediate vulnerabilities, and improve development / security teams. The Company’s comprehensive suite of Assessment, Engineering, and Strategy services secures an entire organization, including its people, applications, data, and networks. By balancing proprietary and automated tools with security expert analysis, Carve delivers optimal results to improve a client’s security posture.

“We have been extremely impressed with Carve’s security expertise and their innovative approach to serving clients,” said David Degitz, CEO of iVision. “We’re focused on keeping the Carve brand with its unique and special cybersecurity services as a subsidiary brand of the iVision company and helping Carve grow as they continue to serve new and existing clients that demand world-class cybersecurity expertise and white glove service.”

“Carve was founded on the principle of putting business in the best position to succeed in the current cybersecurity climate,” said Mike Zusman, CEO of Carve Systems. “By teaming up with iVision and their vast portfolio of services, we’re able to ensure we serve our clients’ IT needs in every possible way.”

Boston Meridian is an innovative investment bank that provides M&A and capital raising advisory services to leading technology companies. We leverage senior partner expertise to unlock the strategic value of technology and achieve rapid and unparalleled results for our clients.

Boston Meridian is pleased to announce the acquisition of SKOUT by Barracuda. SKOUT is the leading Cloud-based XDR platform for MSPs. The Company’s complete security offering focuses on people, process, and technology to identify, detect, and respond to incidents and mitigate threats. SKOUT combines telemetry from across the technology stack to apply orchestration and analytics, all powered by a 24x7x365 SOC.

“Barracuda has entered the fast-growing XDR market with a solution optimized for MSPs,” said Brian Babineau, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Barracuda MSP. “MSPs will benefit from the broader set of solutions, and we’re excited to offer MSPs new response-centric capabilities that will complement Barracuda’s existing portfolio of email, network, and application security products.”

“All MSPs need to become security-first businesses, and we see our platform as a tool to help the market achieve that,” said Aidan Kehoe, CEO and Founder of SKOUT. “Both companies have a shared mission of protecting small businesses everywhere, and the acquisition by Barracuda helps us fully execute on that mission.”

Boston Meridian is an innovative investment bank that provides M&A and capital raising advisory services to leading technology companies. We leverage senior partner expertise to unlock the strategic value of technology and achieve rapid and unparalleled results for our clients.

Boston Meridian is pleased to announce the acquisition of Motiv by Atos. Motiv is the largest independent provider of managed security services in the Netherlands and boasts one of the world’s most mature SOCs. The Company’s expert incident responders, cybersecurity analysts, and threat intelligence analysts have deep experience working with state-of-the-art security tools to safeguard network, endpoint, cloud, and SaaS applications. Motiv’s Agile and DevSecOps principles help customers accelerate cybersecurity and digital transformation efforts.

“Motiv supports Atos’ digital security vision for a converged business-driven security paradigm, enabled by sovereign capability and customer intimacy, and made possible through its end-to-end security services. Motiv’s track record in growth, local expertise and reputation in the market will strengthen Atos’ teams in Northern Europe,” says Pierre Barnabe, Senior Executive Vice President, Head of Big Data & Cybersecurity at Atos.

“By joining forces with Atos, we accelerate our mission to support the secure digital transformation of our customers, unlocking the full potential of Atos’ global cybersecurity service and capabilities to our customers,” says Aksel Dorel, CEO of Motiv.

Boston Meridian is an innovative investment bank that provides M&A and capital raising advisory services to leading technology companies. We leverage senior partner expertise to unlock the strategic value of technology and achieve rapid and unparalleled results for our clients.

Boston Meridian is pleased to announce the acquisition of Perch Security by ConnectWise (a Thoma Bravo company). Perch Security provides the only MSP-designed SIEM in the industry, stripping away unnecessary complexity while providing the multi-tenant functionality MSPs need to support multiple SMB clients and easily capture data from the systems they are monitoring.

The acquisition of Perch Security establishes ConnectWise as the industry’s only platform with a comprehensive offering for today’s Technology Solution Provider – complete with business management, unified management and security management, including SOC and SIEM services. “We want to make cybersecurity less complex for TSPs by providing technology that makes it easy to collect, assess and respond to security data,” said Jason Magee, CEO, ConnectWise. “We are gaining extremely talented and innovative colleagues with a deep understanding of cybersecurity, and a laser focus on what their partners need to succeed.”

“It’s been extremely rewarding to see MSPs find the value in our offering and even more so to add functionality they told us they needed most: SIEM technology, integrations with the tools they use, and more. We’re very excited to join the ConnectWise family and work to solve the full set of security challenges MSPs struggle with,” said Aharon Chernin, CEO, Perch Security.

Boston Meridian is an innovative investment bank that provides M&A and capital raising advisory services to leading technology companies. We leverage senior partner expertise to unlock the strategic value of technology and achieve rapid and unparalleled results for our clients.

Boston Meridian is pleased to announce the acquisition of jSonar by Imperva (Thoma Bravo). jSonar quickly secures data stores no matter what kind (structured or unstructured) or where they live (cloud or on-premise) and provides a layer for estate-wide analytics and control. This dramatically simplifies the process of establishing policies for security, compliance and privacy.

The acquisition will pioneer a bold new approach to securing data through all paths, including on-premises, cloud, multi-cloud and Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), delivering an integrated approach across data and applications. “This combination of two uniquely qualified trailblazers will signal a new approach to data security that puts an emphasis on usability and value with sustained and complete coverage for three initiatives organizations need to implement – security, compliance and privacy,” said Imperva Chief Executive, Pam Murphy.

As part of the deal, jSonar founder Ron Bennatan will join Imperva to lead its new data security division. “We’re excited to join forces with Imperva and accelerate our mission to modernize data security,” said Bennatan. The combination of jSonar and Imperva will form a large development organization dedicated to advancing data security, with many of jSonar’s capabilities being leveraged throughout the Imperva solution stack.

Boston Meridian is an innovative investment bank that provides M&A and capital raising advisory services to leading technology companies. We leverage senior partner expertise to unlock the strategic value of technology and achieve rapid and unparalleled results for our clients.

Boston Meridian is pleased to announce the acquisition of Integris Software by OneTrust. Integris is a leading data privacy automation vendor that discovers & identifies data, enforces data governance policies, and orchestrates remediation. Its market-leading data discovery and classification technology is powered by AI and helps companies manage personal information and meet compliance mandates such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe.

“After evaluating dozens of discovery technologies, we identified Integris Software as having best in class technology and team that will combine with OneTrust to accelerate our innovation and benefit our customers,” OneTrust CEO Kabir Barday said in a statement. The integration of Integris Software brings over seven years of data discovery experience into the OneTrust platform, the largest and most widely used privacy, security, data governance, and compliance technology company today.

“Integris Software is excited to be a part of the OneTrust family and join the world’s leader in privacy, security, and governance,” Integris CEO Kristina Bergman said in a statement. The Integris Software technology is already integrated into OneTrust DataDiscovery™️ product allowing customers immediate access to these capabilities.

Boston Meridian is an innovative investment bank that provides M&A and capital raising advisory services to leading technology companies. We leverage senior partner expertise to unlock the strategic value of technology and achieve rapid and unparalleled results for our clients.

Boston Meridian is pleased to announce the Series B investment in Secure Code Warrior led by Goldman Sachs, with additional capital from ForgePoint Capital and Cisco Investments. This investment represents the largest ever US investment of its kind in an Australian cybersecurity business. Secure Code Warrior is a leading Application Security vendor that uses gamification techniques to train developers to write secure code. This reduces the risk of security breaches resulting from software vulnerabilities and the subsequent costs of remediation.

“The Digital Enterprise and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery are two major trends that are placing the application and the developer on the frontlines of the business. Secure Code Warrior helps organizations code more securely while allowing them to maintain productivity and delivery timelines,” said David Campbell, a Managing Director in Goldman Sachs’ Merchant Banking Division. Sean Cunningham, Managing Director at ForgePoint Capital added, “Secure Code Warrior solves a fundamental problem for organizations: teaching, measuring and improving secure coding skills during the development process.”

Boston Meridian is an innovative investment bank that provides M&A, capital raising, and investment advisory services to leading technology companies.  We leverage senior partner expertise to unlock the strategic value of technology and achieve rapid and unparalleled results for our clients.

Boston Meridian is pleased to announce the sale of RISC Networks to Flexera. RISC Networks’ cloud migration analytics platform speeds digital transformation. The SaaS-based analytics platform fully discovers IT infrastructure, automatically organizes the information into relevant business services, and prioritizes and costs the applications to be moved to the cloud.

“This acquisition enables us to help our customers chart the most efficient and effective path to the cloud, avoiding costly missteps that can set back their digital transformation,” said Jim Ryan, Flexera President and CEO. “It will allow our customers and partners to identify the best route forward. Adding RISC Networks to our portfolio will also help us build stronger relationships with cloud providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, which will offer additional benefits when moving our customers to the cloud.”

RISC Networks’ ability to assess, prioritize, and price which on-premise workloads to move to the cloud is complementary to Flexera’s IT insights and spend optimization. The combined offering provides visibility into software, hardware, cloud assets, and business services.

Boston Meridian is an innovative investment bank that provides M&A and capital raising advisory services to leading technology companies. We leverage senior partner expertise to unlock the strategic value of technology and achieve rapid and unparalleled results for our clients.