Vector Capital Acquires Riverbed Technology

Vector Capital Acquires Majority Ownership of WatchGuard Technologies

April 27, 2022

Cybersecurity

Vector Capital has made a large new equity investment in WatchGuard Technologies and acquired interests previously owned by Francisco Partners and other co-investors to become WatchGuard's majority shareholder. The investment positions Vector to accelerate WatchGuard's growth and platform innovation across cloud transformation, SASE, XDR, MDR and MSP-focused security offerings.

Cerberus Affiliate Acquires Majority Stake in Red River Technology

June 1, 2021

IT Services

An affiliate of Cerberus Capital Management acquired a majority stake in Red River Technology from a group that included the company’s founding shareholders and Acacia Partners. The partnership will support Red River’s investments in capabilities and strategic acquisitions to expand its technology and managed services offerings for government and commercial customers.

Datadog Acquires Timber Technologies (Vector)

February 11, 2021

Cloud & SaaS

Datadog, the cloud monitoring and security SaaS provider, has acquired Timber Technologies, the developer of Vector, a high-performance, vendor-agnostic observability data pipeline. The Timber leadership team (including CEO Zach Sherman and CTO Ben Johnson) and the core Timber team will join Datadog to integrate Vector’s capabilities for collecting, enriching, transforming and routing logs, metrics and traces into Datadog’s platform.

The Riverside Company Acquires Corporate Visions Inc. from Sentinel Capital Partners

August 19, 2021

Education

The Riverside Company has acquired Corporate Visions Inc., a provider of science-backed sales, marketing and customer success training solutions, from Sentinel Capital Partners. Terms were not disclosed; Riverside said it will leverage its education and training experience to help grow Corporate Visions' product offerings and digital delivery capabilities.

Vista Equity Partners and Warburg Pincus Acquire Redwood Software from Turn/River Capital

September 10, 2024

Cloud & SaaS

Funds affiliated with Vista Equity Partners and Warburg Pincus have agreed to acquire Redwood Software from Turn/River Capital. The deal, announced September 10, 2024, will position Redwood to accelerate product development and strategic M&A as it scales its SaaS-based automation platform; terms were not disclosed.

Vector Capital Makes $100M Minority Investment in Malwarebytes

September 21, 2022

Cybersecurity

Vector Capital will make a strategic $100 million minority growth investment in Malwarebytes to accelerate product innovation, expand its channel and MSP programs, and consolidate ownership. As part of the deal, two Vector Managing Directors will join Malwarebytes' board; the transaction is expected to close in Q4 2022.