KnowBe4 Acquires MediaPRO

Vista Equity Partners Acquires KnowBe4

February 7, 2023

Cybersecurity

Vista Equity Partners completed a take-private acquisition of KnowBe4, Inc., the provider of a leading security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, paying $24.90 per share in cash. The deal takes KnowBe4 off Nasdaq and follows Frontier Growth’s prior investment in the company; Vista said it will provide resources and operational support to scale KnowBe4’s cybersecurity offerings.

PartnerOne Acquires Cybersecurity Provider XYPRO

May 13, 2025

Cybersecurity

PartnerOne has acquired XYPRO, a longtime provider of cybersecurity, risk management and compliance solutions for mission-critical enterprise environments. The deal bolsters PartnerOne's cybersecurity capabilities and gives XYPRO access to PartnerOne's global scale and resources to expand its reach and accelerate product innovation.

KnowBe4 Acquires SecurityAdvisor

November 16, 2021

Cybersecurity

KnowBe4 has completed the acquisition of SecurityAdvisor to integrate real-time user behavior analysis and micro-learning into its security awareness and simulated phishing platform. The deal will enable a new "Human Detection and Response (HDR)" capability by correlating training and testing with real-world user behavior and feeding insights to SOCs and existing security controls.

Boathouse Capital-backed ACI Learning Acquires ITProTV

October 31, 2020

Education

Boathouse Capital–backed ACI Learning has acquired ITProTV to expand its audit, cybersecurity and IT learning offerings. ACI Learning will integrate ITProTV’s people, content/IP, production capabilities and customer contracts while retaining the ITProTV brand, increasing the combined platform’s reach to more than 250,000 professionals globally.

CyberRisk Alliance Acquires ChannelPro Network

November 18, 2025

Media & Entertainment

CyberRisk Alliance (CRA) has acquired ChannelPro Network, a content and events business serving the SMB Managed Service Provider (MSP) community. The deal expands CRA's cybersecurity and channel-focused business intelligence portfolio by combining ChannelPro's audience, events, and content with CRA's existing brands and resources.

KnowBe4 Acquires Egress

April 24, 2024

Cybersecurity

KnowBe4 has completed the acquisition of Egress, a UK-based provider of adaptive cloud email security, to integrate Egress' AI-enabled email protection into KnowBe4's human risk management platform. The deal (previously announced under a definitive agreement) brings together KnowBe4's security awareness and simulated phishing capabilities with Egress' contextual email security to deliver a unified, AI-driven human layer security offering; financial terms were not disclosed.