During the month of February, the channel witnessed several key acquisitions and a couple of mergers aimed at increasing revenue and supporting partners.
Among the moves are acquisitions by 11:11 Systems, Scale Computing, and Proofpoint, which continue to pursue strategic acquisitions to grow their businesses and expand their services.
Proofpoint acquires Acuvity
Cybersecurity and compliance leader Proofpoint is acquiring Acuvity, an AI enterprise security and governance organization.
This move will bolster Proofpoint’s platform with AI-native visibility, governance, and runtime protection for AI and agent-driven workflows.
“AI agents are becoming active participants in the enterprise, accessing data, executing tasks, and making decisions alongside people. Securing this new model of work requires understanding human intent, agentic behavior, and risk in real time,” said Ryan Kalember, Chief Strategy Officer, Proofpoint.
“Together, Proofpoint and Acuvity enable organizations to confidently adopt AI tools and agents with the governance, visibility, and control required to manage risk. By securing humans, defending data, and governing AI through a unified platform, Proofpoint is uniquely positioned to protect the agentic workspace end to end – something no other cybersecurity company delivers today.”
Acuvity’s AI security capabilities will enable Proofpoint to become a unified platform that secures every dimension of the agentic workspace.
“AI is fundamentally reshaping how work gets done and enterprises are overwhelmed by the pace of AI adoption and the complexity of securing it,” said Satyam Sinha, co-founder and CEO, Acuvity. “In an AI-accelerated world, intelligence is no longer confined to applications or infrastructure; it lives in interactions, decisions, and autonomous agents acting on our behalf. Securing that future requires a new approach – one that governs how AI thinks, acts, and learns in real time.”
Scale Computing to acquire Adaptiv Networks
Edge computing and network solutions provider, Scale Computing, has reached an agreement to acquire Adaptiv Networks, a cloud-native Software-Defined Wide-Area Network (SD-WAN) and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) provider.
The acquisition will enable Scale Computing to extend its SC//AcuVigil managed network solutions with integrated SD-WAN connectivity, advanced network performance optimization, and centralized orchestration across distributed environments.
“Distributed organizations depend on applications being available everywhere work happens – and that requires reliable, secure connectivity, and always-on visibility,” said Bill Morrow, CEO of Scale Computing.
“By bringing Adaptiv Networks into Scale Computing, we are strengthening our technology platforms with industry leading SD-WAN and SASE capabilities. This will enable our partners and customers to experience secure, agile network connections which will be seamlessly integrated with our managed networking and edge computing software and services.”
Scale Computing will offer the Adaptiv Networks solution immediately, both as standalone offerings and as part of a bundled managed networking platform through Scale Computing’s channel partner ecosystem. Adaptiv Networks’ Connect and Elfiq family of SD-WAN solutions will be marketed under the SC//Connect brand.
Myriad360 is acquiring Advizex Technologies
Global solutions and systems integrator, Myriad360, has announced the acquisition of Advizex Technologies, a technology solutions provider specializing in hybrid infrastructure, data engineering, AI platforms, and managed services.
Myriad360 and Advizex will combine to bring capabilities across infrastructure, cloud, data, AI, security, and managed services. Advizex will bring enterprise relationships, managed services scale, and market presence in areas – where Myriad360 has a limited footprint – to this combined company.
Myriad360, meanwhile, will add differentiated strength in infrastructure integration, networking, data center deployment, cybersecurity, and AI-ready environments.
“This is about building a platform positioned for where the market is going,” said Jay Miley, CEO of Myriad360. “Our priority is continuity for clients and expanded opportunities for our teams. People buy from people they know and trust, and that remains unchanged. What expands is the capability, scale, and reach behind those relationships. Together, we are positioned to serve clients across the AI and enterprise infrastructure spectrum, from foundation to activation to ongoing operations.”
Advizex will operate as Advizex, a Myriad360 company.
Pendo to acquire Chisel Labs
Pendo, a software experience management platform, has acquired Chisel Labs, an AI-powered platform for product management teams.
By acquiring Chisel Labs, Pendo adds expertise in AI-powered product management and brings in Chisel’s specialized AI frameworks and engineering talent in-house. Pendo will be able to accelerate the development of autonomous agents capable of handling complex and manual workflows.
“AI has collapsed the software development lifecycle,” said Todd Olson, CEO and co-founder of Pendo. “Products move from concept to production faster than ever. The challenge for teams is understanding whether what they ship actually delivers value. This acquisition strengthens our ability to answer that question.”
This will be Pendo’s fourth acquisition in 18 months and will help establish a foothold for Pendo in India, as Chisel has product management teams headquartered in San Francisco and Pune, India. Pendo plans to scale the team to 50 engineers by year’s end to support global customers and accelerate platform development.
Semperis acquires MightyID
Identity-driven cyber resilience and crisis management companySemperis is making a move to acquire MightyID, an identity resilience specialist for cloud identity providers Okta and Ping.
By integrating MightID into the Semperis identity resilience platform, the organization will deliver broad, comprehensive capabilities for organizations managing hybrid identity systems. Among the capabilities include:
- Continuous exposure management to prevent sophisticated attacks that move laterally from on-prem identity systems to cloud environments.
- Automated remediation of malicious changes across the hybrid identity environment.
- Flexible, fast recovery of hybrid identity systems, with built-in fault tolerance to handle incident response (IR) environments.
- Turnkey crisis management to accelerate return to normal business operations following an attack.
“This strategic move furthers our mission to help organizations achieve true cyber resilience,” said Mickey Bresman, Semperis CEO.
“Effective defense means resilience – not just prevention – so operations can continue, even under attack. This acquisition advances our leadership in identity-driven security and crisis management, helping organizations ensure mission continuity in the face of modern cyberattacks.”
Further, the acquisition enables Semperis to extend cyber resilience through identity-first security and crisis management across complex hybrid identity environments, including Microsoft Active Directory (AD), Entra ID, Okta, and Ping.
SIM IP and Garden Intel set to merge
Sauvegarder Investment Management, Inc. (SIM IP), an intellectual property-based investment and monetization organization, and Garden Intel, an AI-driven patent intelligence organization, are merging in a $150 million move.
The merger will create a vertically integrated, profitable platform that unites SIM IP’s deep licensing expertise and relationships with Garden’s agentic AI infrastructure to solve liquidity issues for patents at scale.
“We are building the only platform in the market where the asset class becomes more intelligent with scale, and among all our customers, SIM IP clearly stood out as the ideal entity to merge Garden with,” said Adi Sidapara, CEO of Garden Intel.
“As a combined force, we view our customers now as patent owners that only SIM IP works with. Every patent we analyze, and every licence SIM IP executives, feeds proprietary pricing and validity data back into our models. This creates a network effect: greater data attracts more assets, which yields better data, and most importantly, rewards those who innovate with enhanced and faster economic returns. We are building a defensive moat around the financialization of innovation that manual operators cannot penetrate.”
Additionally, the combined business is moving beyond the categories of “litigation finance” and “patent monetization” to a new sector: Asset-Based AI.
Labelbox acquires Upcraft
Labelbox is acquiring agentic sales automation startup Upcraft in a move that will enhance how Labelbox scales outreach and engagement within Alignerr, its network of one million+ experts who evaluate, train, and improve AI models.
Upcraft’s AI technology will integrate into Labelbox’s infrastructure to enable automated workflows that accelerate the delivery of expert-quality training data at scale.
“After nearly five years of building Upcraft, we’re thrilled to bring our AI sales agent expertise to Labelbox,” said Greg Caplan, Co-founder and CEO of Upcraft.
“Labelbox’s vision of helping the world’s largest AI labs and hyperscalers advance superintelligence is inspiring. This acquisition lets us contribute to a platform with unmatched resources and reach, accelerating our mission to make AI more accessible and effective. Leading growth for Alignerr’s expert ecosystem is particularly exciting. By applying the latest AI agent technology to engage experts more effectively, we can generate higher-quality data that improves the world’s most capable AI models and unlocks their full potential. I’m deeply grateful to our investors, partners, and team for their support, and I’m excited for what lies ahead.”
Seismic and Highspot to merge
Seismic and Highspot have announced their intent to merge, bringing together two enablement platforms to reimagine and accelerate performance for revenue teams.
The combined company will operate as Seismic, with Seismic CEO Rob Tarkoff leading the organization once the deal closes. Highspot Founder and CEO Robert Wahbe will join the board of directors.
“There is a growing demand for technologies that help organizations connect sales strategy to execution and drive consistent revenue performance at scale. This proposed merger is about meeting that increasing demand and raising the bar for how technology can enable revenue organizations to plan, execute, perform, and scale,” said Tarkoff. “I’m excited to continue partnering with both Seismic and Highspot customers as we build the platform that advances the future of AI-driven revenue performance and operations.”
The two companies will remain independent until the transaction closes.
Once closed, the combined organization will invest more in AI-powered capabilities designed to help revenue teams improve productivity, execution, and consistency across sales, marketing, customer success, and other revenue-generating teams.
SUSE acquires Losant for Industrial IoT modernization
SUSE, an enterprise open source solutions provider, is acquiring the Industrial IoT (IIoT) platform, Losant, to break down traditional silos of the industrial landscape and offer a full-stack open process automation platform for IIoT.
“The acquisition of Losant transforms SUSE from an edge infrastructure provider to a full-stack Industrial IoT leader. It allows us to deliver to customers the part of the edge where the digital world directly meets the physical one, where machines, environments, and people interact in real time, and where AI can be meaningfully deployed to gain better insight into real-world processes,” said general manager of SUSE Edge, Keith Basil.
“With Losant, we will move faster from infrastructure to operational outcomes combining our Edge portfolio and products like SUSE AI, allowing deeper collaboration with industrial partners, equipment manufacturers, and industrial open source communities as the ecosystem continues to evolve.”
By adding the Losant platform, SUSE will be able to extend its Edge portfolio beyond infrastructure and into operational execution. It will enable the combination of device orchestration, data management, and application enablement with foundational SUSE technologies.
This combined portfolio will enable organizations to connect operational systems directly with enterprise workflows and analytics.
“Joining forces with SUSE is the natural next step for Losant. Combining our low-code Industrial Internet of Things platform with SUSE’s 30 plus years of experience software will provide customers with stability and interoperability, allowing us to accelerate our mission to help IT leaders turn complex data into immediate operational value,” said Losant CEO Charlie Key. “We are excited to bring our Tiny Edge capabilities to a much larger stage.”
Everpure moves to acquire 1touch.io
Everpure, formerly known as Pure Storage, is acquiring 1touch.io in an effort to make GenAI and agentic AI secure enough for real-world, large-scale deployment.
1touch will expand Everpure’s platform beyond infrastructure performance into intelligent data governance, embedding security, visibility, and AI accountability at the core of enterprise data environments.
“Data is the lifeblood of the AI era, but without the proper controls and semantic context, it remains an untapped resource,” said Ashish Gupta, CEO and president, 1touch. “By joining forces with Everpure, we can eliminate the barriers that have kept enterprises from realizing the true ROI of their data. Together, we will further expand the Everpure platform to provide a level of contextual intelligence that is unmatched in the industry – giving customers the foundation they need to move AI projects from pilot to production at record speed and trust.”
CEO of Everpure, Charles Giancarlo added: “With 1touch, we are taking the next step in helping organizations not only gain control of their most valuable asset – data – but also understand, enhance, and contextualize that data for actionable intelligence.”
11:11 Systems acquires Digital Sense
11:11 Systems, a managed infrastructure solutions provider, has completed the acquisition of Digital Sense, an Australia-based, cloud and managed services provider – previously owned by Aussie Broadband.
“This acquisition reflects 11:11 Systems’ continued commitment to growth and investment across APAC,” said Marc Beder, general manager, APAC, 11:11 Systems. “By bringing Digital Sense into 11:11, we’re expanding our presence in Australia while strengthening our ability to deliver world-class cloud and managed services throughout the region. We’re excited to build on Digital Sense’s strong reputation and continue providing innovative, secure, and scalable solutions that evolve with business needs in the region.”
This move marks 11:11’s seventh acquisition of a former VMware CSP and tenth acquisition overall. Among the other VMware-based businesses acquired by 11:11 include iland Cloud, Green Cloud Defense, Unitas Global, Sungard Availability Services, Faction, and Ntirety.
“Across the globe, 11:11 has been working closely with cloud service providers to help customers stay secure, compliant, and perform at their best as the market evolves,” said Brett Diamond, CEO, 11:11 Systems. “Digital Sense has earned a standout reputation across Australia for delivering high-performance cloud solutions, and we’re excited to welcome their customers to 11:11’s resilient cloud platform – providing the stability they need today and the innovation to keep moving forward.”
Palo Alto Networks announces intent to acquire Koi
Global AI cybersecurity provider Palo Alto Networks is set to acquire Koi, an agentic endpoint security organization.
While AI agents and tools operate with deep access to sensitive data, unrestricted permissions, and perform other actions, they can still bypass traditional security controls. Via this acquisition, Palo Alto Networks seeks to address these security control challenges by giving enterprises the power to see and protect the AI-native ecosystem that defines modern work.
“AI agents and tools are the ultimate insiders. They have full access to your systems and data, but operate entirely outside the view of traditional security controls,” said Lee Klarich, Chief Product & Technology Officer, Palo Alto Networks. “By acquiring Koi, we will be closing this gap and setting a new standard for endpoint security. We will give our customers the visibility and control required to safely harness the power of AI – ensuring that every agent, plugin, and script is governed, verified, and secure.”
Koi’s Agentic Endpoint Security will work to extend Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma AIRS AI security platform.
The integration will broaden coverage across AI-driven operations, while enhancing Cortex XDR’s endpoint security solution to provide visibility into the AI attack surface to improve security policy and malware prevention.
“We founded Koi to secure the next frontier of risk. In an agentic-first world, traditional solutions are blind,” said Amit Assaraf, CEO and Co-founder of Koi. “Joining forces with Palo Alto Networks will allow us to scale our technology to the world’s largest organizations, delivering protection that makes work on the modern AI-native endpoint secure by design.”
