Here are some of the most prominent venture capital (VC) and merger and acquisition (M&A) 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 Julia King ([email protected]).

Arrcus secured $50 million in a Series D equity round, with investments lead by Prosperity7 Ventures. The funding follows a more than doubling in sales bookings last year, and a 70% increase in the vendor’s global headcount.

Prosperity7 Executive Managing Director Aysar Tayeb said its backing Arrcus as a “disruptive leader” in this space. The vendor competes against larger networking software companies like Cisco, Arista, and Juniper Networks.

Arrcus CEO Shekar Ayyar, a former VMware executive, told SDxCentral the vendor’s growth is in large part due to its Arrcus Connected Edge (ACE) platform – a three-layer stack to connect enterprise data centers with service or cloud-provider infrastructure – and its use case versatility “across the network from edge to multi-cloud and from enterprise to service providers.” Read more.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) acquired technology provider Athonet to strengthen its private cellular network push – a move that HPE Wireless CTO Stuart Strickland said will benefit the company’s existing Aruba Networks customers.

HPE will integrate Athonet’s software with Aruba’s private networking portfolio to combine the high capacity enabled by Wi-Fi with the coverage and mobility of 5G.

“We’ve wanted to partner with a private cellular network core company for a long time,” Strickland told SDxCentral. “We looked for companies that would have a similar vision and would also have developed their technology with private networks in mind rather than oriented toward the public backbone network.” Read more.

Intel announced the pricing of seven series of senior unsecured notes for an aggregate amount of $11 billion.

Acceldata raised $50 million in Series C funding led by March Capital.

Radiant Logic acquired Brainwave GRC.

Arrcus raised $50 million led by Prosperity7 Ventures.

Almond acquired Amossys.

Netlify acquired Gatsby.

Vista Equity Partners acquired KnowBe4.

IBM acquired StepZen.

Yobi announced a $2.37 million seed funding round.

Jetpack.io raised $10 million in seed funding from Coatue and GV.

Flox raised $16.5 million in Series A funding led by New Enterprise Associates.

Onehouse raised $25 million in Series A funding.

Build38 raised $14 million in Series A funding led by Tikehau Capital.

MindsDB announced a $16.5 million Series A investment from Benchmark.

Opscura announced $9.4 million in Series A funding.

InfluxData closed a $51 million Series E funding round led by Princeville Capital and Citi Ventures.

Metomic raised $20 million in Series A funding.

Skybox Security announced a $50 million funding round led by CVC Growth Partners.

dbt Labs acquired Transform.

Oligo Security exited stealth with $28 million in funding.

RedKubes announced a $1.2 million seed funding extension.

Quantum Brilliance raised $18 million in funding.

Entitle exited stealth with $15 million in seed funding.

Armis surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR).

IrisCX announced a $4.6 million seed funding round led by Arthur Ventures.

ProsperOps announced a $72 million investment led by H.I.G. Growth Partners.

Keysight Technologies acquired Cliosoft.

Finch raised $40 million in Series B funding.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) acquired Athonet.

Wiz reached a $10 billion valuation.

CyberMaxx acquired CipherTechs.