This month’s mergers and acquisitions (M&A) roundup has seen several moves based on AI and aimed at enhancing an organization’s capabilities.
Let’s take a look at some acquisitions in the channel space shaping the start of Q4 as organizations seek to reposition themselves before a new year begins.
Kaseya announces INKY aquisition
Kaseya, a leading provider of AI-powered IT and security management software, announced the acquisition of INKY, a modern, generative AI-based email security solution for MSPs and small- to midsize businesses (SMBs).
INKY will receive a boost, benefiting from the scale and data of Kaseya’s global ecosystem, to enable deeper threat correlation, faster response, and smarter AI-driven insights over time.
“Kaseya is committed to being the indispensable partner that helps MSPs lead in this next chapter of IT and security,” said Rania Succar, CEO of Kaseya. “No one else has our scale, data advantage, and end-to-end platform to deliver enterprise-grade protection to small and midsize businesses. With INKY joining the Kaseya family, its powerful AI-driven email security becomes even more effective– informed by our platform’s data, integrated across our ecosystem, and available through Kaseya 365 User. Together, we’ll deliver the most connected and proactive security experience in the industry.”
INKY will be available as a stand-alone product and included as part of the Kaseya 365 User offering.
“We’re incredibly proud of what we’ve built at INKY– a product that has consistently stayed ahead of attackers by understanding intent, not just content,” said Dave Baggett, founder and CEO of INKY. “Joining Kaseya allows us to take that innovation to the next level. Kaseya’s scale, data, and commitment to R&D amplify everything we’ve created, helping us bring our technology to more customers and make email communication safer for everyone.”
Veeam acquires Securiti AI
Data resilience company Veeam recently acquired Securiti AI for $1.725 billion.
Through the acquisition of Securiti AI, a leader in data security posture management (DSPM), privacy, governance, access, and AI trust across hybrid, multi-cloud, and SaaS platforms, the two companies will help customers comprehend their full data estate, provide security, recovery, and rollback services to maximize data value for AI.
“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,” said Anand Eswaran, CEO at Veeam. “This is the single most critical factor in failed AI initiatives. By combining the market-leading strengths of Veeam and Securiti AI, we bring those capabilities together in a single solution to help customers understand, secure, recover, and rollback, and unleash their data to drive new business value.”
As part of the move, Securiti AI CEO Rehan Jalil will join Veeam as president of security and AI.
Caylent set to acquire Trek10
Caylent, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Tier Services Partner, has acquired Trek10 Inc., a Premier Tier partner, in a move to create a “dedicated AWS services partner.”
Through this acquisition, Caylent will expand its reach into managed services and guide customers through their AWS journey —from strategy to operations and AI-driven innovation.
“This combination establishes the most comprehensive dedicated AWS services partner in the industry,” said Caylent CEO Lori Williams. “By uniting Trek10’s proven CloudOps platform and managed services capabilities with Caylent’s agentic delivery model, we are delivering full lifecycle AI era services focused on enhancing customer outcomes.”
Together, the two companies will combine their capabilities across migration, modernization, data and analytics, generative AI, and DevOps.
“Joining forces with Caylent unlocks extraordinary opportunities for our customers,” said Shane Fimbel, Trek10 CEO. “Our teams share a commitment to AWS excellence and innovation.”
Inveniam acquires Storj
Recently, Inveniam Capital Partners announced the acquisition of Storj, a distributed and decentralized cloud platform vendor.
Through the acquisition, Storj will become a subsidiary of Inveniam, while retaining its existing team, leadership, and customer relationships.
Colby Winegar, CEO of Storj, will continue to lead Storj, while the company’s executive chairman, Ben Golub, will join Inveniam’s board of directors.
“Storj’s unique technology is a critical enabler of Inveniam’s mission and serves our growing customer base with a network that sets the standard for secure, high-performance decentralized storage and compute,” said Patrick O’Meara, the chairman and CEO of Inveniam. “We’re particularly excited to integrate the Storj token into our ecosystem, driving greater utility and alignment across our platforms. Together, we’re shaping the future of decentralized marketplaces and unlocking new growth opportunities for both companies.”
The companies have said that there will be no disruption to current contracts, pricing, or services as a result of this acquisition.
Dataminr to acquire ThreatConnect
Dataminr, a provider of AI-powered real-time event, threat & risk intelligence, announced its intent to acquire ThreatConnect, an intelligence management platform for contextualizing and prioritizing threats across internal client data environments.
“We are thrilled to be joining forces with ThreatConnect’s amazing 170-person mission-oriented teams that shares in our passion for delivering customer value through rapid AI innovation,” said Ted Bailey, founder and CEO of Dataminr. “By uniting our AI platform with the capabilities of ThreatConnect, Dataminr will fuse external public data signals and internal client data to pioneer the first-ever real-time Client-Tailored intelligence. The future of Dataminr’s real-time intelligence will be more relevant and actionable than ever before– enabling our clients to not just understand what is happening, but what it means to them, and how they should respond.”
The acquisition will see Dataminr’s AI platform for public data signals combined with ThreatConnect’s internal data capabilities to create an agentic AI-powered Client-Tailored intelligence. Dataminr’s AI agents will reason across both internal and external data domains to deliver real-time, context-aware, personalized intelligence that automatically adapts to individual customer needs.
The move values ThreatConnect at $290 million.
Data platform, Redis, recently announced the acquisition of Featureform, a framework for managing, defining, and orchestrating structured data signals.
Through this acquisition, Redis will help developers address challenges in production AI, including getting structured data into models quickly, reliably, and with full observability.
“Adding Featureform immediately allows Redis to serve more AI development use cases with speed and simplicity,” said Rowan Trollope, CEO of Redis. “By integrating Featureform’s powerful framework into our platform, we’re better enabling developers to deliver context to agents at exactly the right moment, so they reason, act, and interact accurately and intuitively.”
Featureform will become part of Redis’s feature store solution, complementing the benchmarked vector database powered by Redis Query Engine, and the semantic caching service, Redis LangCache.
DoiT makes CloudWize acquisition
DoiT, a provider of enterprise-grade FinOps and CloudOps solutions, is acquiring CloudWize, a multi-cloud security posture and compliance platform.
The acquisition will extend DoiT Cloud Intelligence beyond cloud financial management to include intelligent security posture, compliance, and automated guardrails, connecting risk, reliability, and cost into a unified, outcome-driven platform.
“Over the last decade, we’ve learned that many FinOps or CloudOps problems actually start as security drift and misconfiguration,” said Vadim Solovey, CEO of DoiT. “We’ve built our platform to catch cost anomalies in real time, but the best problem is the one you never create. CloudWize brings cost-aware, context-driven security to DoiT Cloud Intelligence, helping customers prevent the misconfigurations that become waste, outages, and risk. It turns posture into guardrails– and guardrails into lower spend.”
DoiT will enhance its position in the FinOps 3.0 landscape through this acquisition, combining capabilities that will allow organizations to prioritize risks by business impact, automate remediation through DoiT CloudFlow, and accelerate compliance without waste, helping teams act with confidence and speed.
archTIS Ltd acquires Spirion LLC
Global provider of data-centric software solutions for the secure collaboration of sensitive information, archTIS Ltd., has announced the acquisition of Spirion LLC, a provider of sensitive data discovery and classification solutions.
This acquisition will see Spirion’s expertise and technology for data discovery and classification merge with archTIS’ ABAC technologies. This combined entity offers a comprehensive suite of solutions that manage and secure sensitive information.
“We are thrilled to welcome Spirion and its customers into the archTIS family,” said Daniel Lai, CEO and managing director of archTIS. “This marks a new chapter in our growth strategy– one that enhances our technical capabilities, expands our vertical market presence, and solidifies our position in the critical U.S. market. The integration of Spirion’s data discovery platform with our secure collaboration and access control technologies creates one of the most comprehensive Zero Trust data-centric security portfolios available today.”
Additionally, archTIS will gain direct access to Spirion’s portfolio of over 150 enterprise customers in healthcare, financial services, government, and education. Spirion’s U.S.-based team of 38 employees will join archTIS.
Riveron to acquire Eden Data
Advisory firm Riveron has acquired Eden Data, an Austin, Texas-based advisory firm with expertise in cybersecurity, governance, risk, compliance (GRC), and AI.
Through this acquisition, Riveron will expand the scope of their Risk Advisory solutions to create a platform spanning financial controls, compliance, and emerging technology risk management.
Eden Data specializes in compliance frameworks, including SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI, and others. With this acquisition, Riveron will help CFOs address challenges in data privacy, cybersecurity, and the governance of emerging technologies by uniting financial, operational, and cyber expertise in a single platform.
“This partnership is a game-changer for the clients we serve through our growing Risk Advisory team,” said Sam Shaw, CEO of Riveron. “Eden Data brings in-demand cyber, compliance, and AI risk expertise that perfectly complements our SOX, internal audit, and enterprise risk services. Together, we’re building a one-stop shop for our clients to help them address today’s most pressing risk management challenges.”
Searchlight Cyber acquires Intangic
Searchlight Cyber is acquiring cyber risk management company Intangic in a move to boost Searchlight’s ability to help organizations measure, monitor, and mitigate cyber risk across external environments, thereby broadening its unified platform for external threat visibility.
“This acquisition of Intangic is a natural fit for Searchlight, having worked closely with their team since 2019,” said Ben Jones, co-founder and CEO of Searchlight Cyber. “Both companies share a data-driven, technology-focused approach and a commitment to delivering measurable value to customers. Intangic’s unique model for quantifying cyber risk– combined with Searchlight’s dark web intelligence and attack surface management capabilities– will allow us to deliver even deeper, more actionable insights to our users. Ryan and his team will be a great addition to the Searchlight family.”
These two companies have been working together for the past 5 years, using dark web data as a core dataset in their cyber risk models. The partnership will provide organizations with a single company to assess their cybersecurity risk and mitigate at a technical level — using Searchlight’s tools to take action.
Intangic’s risk models will also enhance Searchlight Cyber’s platform’s third-party risk management capabilities.
It seems like just yesterday that we were reflecting on the major mergers and acquisitions that occurred in September. Catch up on those moves in case you missed them!
