Here are some of the most prominent venture capital and merger and acquisition news items from August. If you’d like SDxCentral to report on your company’s VC or M&A activity in our monthly Money Moves section, or if you have any tips on that activity, please send the information to Julia King ([email protected]).

Cisco Investments pumped new funds into tech startup Island, joining a handful of backers betting on its enterprise-focused browser technology.

Island launched its Enterprise Browser in February. It was built by Island co-founders Mike Fey and Dan Amiga wanting to provide enterprises with control over its browser environment, which is traditionally made for the consumer market rather than an enterprise one, according to a Cisco Investments blog.

The Island Enterprise Browser simplifies the security stack, gives an enterprise complete policy control, and delivers a “more efficient, safer, and productive browsing environment,” according to the blog.

Data center switch giant Arista Networks purchased smaller rival Pluribus Networks in a move that further bolsters its cloud fabric ambitions and provides Arista with a greater presence in the telecom space.

The deal was announced as part of Arista’s second-quarter financial release. Terms of the Pluribus deal were not released, though Pluribus had raised $137 million across seven funding rounds, according to Crunchbase.

Arista CEO Jayshree Ullal specifically touted Pluribus’ work in extending cloud fabric platforms into the telecom space.

Managed network provider Expereo has acquired British service provider Breeze Networks to expand its range of services across the globe. Breeze provisions cloud-based SD-WAN and secure access service edge (SASE) technologies for enterprises and government agencies.

Netherlands-based Expereo pursued the acquisition because of the company’s “active M&A outlook for organizations that help to strengthen [its] existing brand proposition,” Expereo CEO Irwin Fouwels told SDxCentral in an email. “Breeze Networks is an interesting organization due to their strength in SD-WAN and SASE technology, which will complement Expereo’s SD-WAN practice,” he added.

Breeze CTO Matthew Lea will serve as technical portfolio lead as part of Expereo’s technical team led by CTO Kristaps Petrovskis. Lea will drive Expereo’s expansion plans for its SD-WAN and SASE practice, “particularly within the UK, a key market for growth,” according to Fouwels.

Flow Security announced $10 million in seed funding.

EasyDMARC raised $2.3 million in seed funding.

Talon Cyber Security announced $100 million in Series A funding. 

Privya emerged from stealth with $6 million in funding.

Singtel announced it will invest a further $100 million into Singtel Innov8, raising its total capital commitment to $350 million.

Cybrary announced a $25 million Series C funding round.

mParticle acquired Vidora.

Footprint announced $6 million in seed funding and partnerships with Stytch and Argyle.

Equalum announced a $14 million Series C financing round.

DNSFilter acquired Guardian. 

AppOmni received additional funding from Cisco Investments.

DriveNets secured $262 million in a Series C venture capital (VC) funding round.

Zilliz raised a $60 million extension to its initial $43 million Series B funding round.

Ori Solution Oy closed a $250 thousand pre-seed funding round.

Sync Computing raised $15.5 million in Series A funding.

SynSaber announced $13 million in Series A funding led by SYN Ventures.

HyperTrack announced a $25 million Series A investment round led by WestBridge Capital and Nexus Venture Partners.

Nova Labs acquired FreedomFi.

Sofy raised $7.75 million in seed funding. 

TXOne Networks announced $70 million in Series B financing.

Centerbridge Partners, L.P. and Bridgeport Partners LP acquired Fintech Computer Services, Inc.

Thoma Bravo acquired SailPoint. 

Recurve raised $18 million in Series B funding.

DigitalOcean acquired Cloudways.

Cyberstarts closed a $60 million seed funding III round.

11:11 Systems acquired the cloud managed services business from Sungard Availability Services.

Tridge closed a $37 million Series D funding round at a $2.7 billion valuation.

BalkanID secured an additional $2.36 million in seed financing, bringing the total of its seed round to $8.1 million.

StarTree, Inc. announced $47 million in Series B funding.

Cerberus Cyber Sentinel Corporation acquired CUATROi. 

Micron Technology, Inc. announced plans to invest $40 billion through the end of the decade to build leading-edge memory manufacturing in multiple phases in the U.S.

Francisco Partners acquired SAP Litmos (Litmos) from SAP.

Vodafone entered into non-binding terms with 4iG Public Limited Company and Corvinus Zrt in relation to the potential sale of Vodafone Hungary.

Intel signed an agreement with Brookfield to jointly invest up to $30 billion in leading-edge chip factories in Arizona.