Here are some of the most prominent venture capital and merger and acquisition news items from November. 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]).

Snyk, the $8.5 billion developer-focused security company that recently scored $600 million in late-stage funding, continued its buying spree with CloudSkiff.

Paris-based CloudSkiff created driftctl, an open source tool for drift detection, that Snyk says will boost its Snyk Infrastructure as Code product capabilities — and it’s going to continue investing in the project’s open source development.

Snyk didn’t disclose financial details about the CloudSkiff deal, which is its fourth acquisition in the last 12 months. The three others were FossID, Manifold, and DeepCode. Snyk acquired FossID to expand its license compliance and C/C++ capabilities. Meanwhile, DeepCode provides real-time semantic code analysis, and Manifold has a cloud-native marketplace for developers.

Cloud security vendor Lacework today said it closed a record-breaking $1.3 billion funding round on an $8.3 billion valuation.

It’s the cybersecurity unicorn’s second record-setting investment in less than a year. In January, Lacework announced a $525 million Series C funding round, which, at the time, was the largest-ever in security industry history.

“And not too long after that, we started hearing expressions of interest from current and potential new investors to invest even more in the company because they see the promise of the market, and they see the progress that we’ve been making,” Lacework CFO Mike Staiger said.

So the company and its investors blew the earlier round out of the water with another round of financing.

VMware and Dell Technologies completed their long-awaited spinoff deal to make VMware an independent company.

IBM acquired SXiQ.

Lumigo raised $29 million in Series A funding.

Elotl raised $5 million in seed funding.

QuestDB closed its Series A funding round with $12 million in investments. 

Datafold raised $20 million during its Series A funding round.

QuestionPro acquired Bryght AI.

Ekinops acquired SixSq.

Synopsys acquired Concertio.

Lumigo raised $29 million in Series A funding.

Everlaw announced $202 million in Series D funding.

Oxeye raised $5.3 million in seed funding.

Datavail acquired Skybridge Global.

Mimik Technology closed its Series A funding round with $14.3 million in investments. 

Yellowbrick Data raised $75 million during its Series C funding round.

Lumentum acquired NeoPhotonics.

Red Hat partnered with Phlyt. 

Viasat acquired Inmarsat.

H2O.ai raised $100 million in Series E funding.

Kubermatic raised $6 million in seed funding.

SafeBreach closed its Series D funding round with $53.5 million in investments.

DomainTools announced its acquisition of Farsight Security.

Socure raised $450 million in an oversubscribed funding round.

Accenture acquired ClearEdge Partners.

Contrast Security raised $150 million in Series E funding.

DataCore Software acquired MayaData.

Nitro raised $104 million in investments and acquired Connective.

ControlUp raised $100 million in funding.

Workato closed its Series E funding round with $200 million in investments.

Navisite acquired EightCloud.

KKR and Global Infrastructure Partners acquired CyrusOne in a $15 billion deal.

Immersive Labs acquired Snap Labs.

Netlify raised $105 million in funding.

ThoughtSpot raised $100 million in Series F funding at a $4.2 billion valuation.

Alluxio announced $50 million in Series C funding.

Team Cymru acquired Amplicy.

Stellar Cyber raised $38 million in Series B funding.

SnapAttack announced an $8 million funding round.

Laminar emerged from stealth with $32 million in Series A funding.

Sift acquired Keyless.

Unisys acquired Mobinergy.

Formstack raised $425 million in growth funding.

Cortex announced $15 million in Series A funding.

Comet raised $50 million in Series B funding. 

Render closed its Series A funding round with $20 million in investments.

ServiceNow acquired DotWalk.

Cycode raised $56 million in Series B funding.

Tempo Software acquired Roadmunk.

Upbound raised $60 million in Series B funding.

PROS acquired EveryMundo.

Vercel closed its Series D funding round with $150 million in investments. 

Stax acquired CardX.