Here are some of the most prominent venture capital and merger and acquisition news items from February. 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 Emma Chervek ([email protected]).

Intel expanded its manufacturing empire with a $5.4 billion acquisition of Israel-based foundry operator Tower Semiconductor.

“Tower’s specialty technology portfolio, geographic reach, deep customer relationships, and services first operations will help scale Intel’s foundry services and advance our goal of becoming a major provider of foundry capacity,” Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said in a statement.

Tower Semiconductor specializes in radio frequency, power, silicon-germanium, and industrial sensors. The company also has extensive intellectual property holdings and well established electronic design automation partnerships.

The acquisition is the latest feather in Intel’s foundry cap and addresses the need for trailing-edge semiconductor capacity commonly used in automotive and industrial applications, GlobalData analyst David Bicknell wrote in a research note.

Snyk stands poised to move its developer-focused security platform into the larger cloud security market, forecast to reach $77.5 billion by 2026, with its acquisition of Fugue.

The companies did not disclose financial terms of the deal.

Fugue is a cloud security posture management (CSPM) vendor, and in October it rolled out a unified policy engine that connects cloud posture back to configuration code, using one set of policies to manage compliance and security throughout the entire software development lifecycle. In an earlier interview, Fugue co-founder and CEO Josh Stella said the unified policy engine can ensure cloud security across development and operations using 50% fewer engineering resources.

These capabilities will extend Snyk’s Developer Security Platform and enable what it calls “the industry’s first CSPM designed by and for developers.”

Gupshup acquired Knowlarity Communications.

Pixm raised $4.3 million in seed funding.

GWI raised $180 million in Series B funding.

Forescout Technologies acquired CyberMDX.

Check Point Software Technologies acquired Spectral.

Park Place Technologies acquired Congruity360’s Storfirst platform.

Island emerged from stealth with $100 million in funding.

Torii raised $50 million in Series B funding.

Juniper Networks acquired WiteSand.

Arctic Wolf acquired Tetra Defense.

Tenable acquired Cymptom.

Starburst raised $250 million in Series D funding.

Tricentis acquired Testim.

Promethium raised $26 million in Series A funding.

Shift5 raised $50 million in Series B funding.

Clearlake Capital Group acquired Quest Software.

Census closed its Series B funding round with $60 million in investments.

Vicarius raised $24 million in Series A funding.

Canonic Security emerged from stealth with $6 million in seed funding.

Cloudflare acquired Area 1 Security.

Salt Security raised $140 million in Series D funding.

Sardine closed its Series A funding round with $19.5 million in investments. 

Beyond Identity raised $100 million in Series C funding.

Classiq raised $33 million in Series B funding.

IBM acquired Neudesic.

Securonix raised over $1 billion in growth investments.

WhiteSource acquired Xanitizer and DefenseCode.

Uniphore raised $400 million in Series E funding.

DuploCloud closed its Series A funding round with $15 million in investments.

Darktrace acquired Cybersprint.

Voltron Data raised $88 million in Series A funding.

Federated Wireless raised $58 million in Series D funding.

Cohere Technologies closed its Series D funding round with $46 million in investments.

Hasura secured $100 million in Series C funding.

BIO-key acquired Swivel Secure.

Kubecost raised $25 million in Series A funding.

MongoDB launched MongoDB Ventures.

Temporal.io closed its Series B funding round with $103 million in investments.

RouteThis raised $25 million in Series A funding.

Cygna Labs acquired Diamond IP.

dbt Labs raised $222 million in Series D funding.

Testsigma raised $4.6 million in funding.

Rakuten Symphony acquired Robin.io.