Limerston Capital Acquires CyberCrowd to Build Cybersecurity Platform
May 27, 2024
London-based private equity firm Limerston Capital has acquired UK-based cyber security services specialist CyberCrowd as the first step in building a new cybersecurity platform alongside assets from an earlier acquisition. The combined group will offer digital forensics, e-Discovery, a proprietary forensic case management tool, a 24/7 UK-based SOC, incident response, and scaled consultancy and penetration testing services to public and private sector clients.
- Buyers
- Limerston Capital
- Targets
- CyberCrowd
- Industry
- Cybersecurity
- Location
- United Kingdom
- Transaction Type
- Addon
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