eSentire, a provider of Managed Detection and Response (MDR) solutions, has received $325 million in capital under a binding agreement with Georgian and the Caisse de Dépot et Placement du Québec (CDPQ), valuing the company at more than $1 billion. Global Cybersecurity Firm eSentire Raises $325M, Achieves Unicorn Status
eSentire, a provider of Managed Detection and Response (MDR) solutions, has received $325 million in capital under a binding agreement with Georgian and the Caisse de Dépot et Placement du Québec (CDPQ), valuing the company at more than $1 billion. 
Mangata Networks has raised $33 million in a Series A round headed by Playground Global, a venture capital firm located in the United States. 
Cloud-native application security provider Snyk has raised $75 million in Series F funding from Atlassian Ventures and Salesforce Ventures. 
UK headquartered cyber security company, SenseOn, has secured a $20 million Series A funding round to scale its cloud native AI cybersecurity platform. 
HPC and AI data center solutions provider, GigaIO, has completed a $14.7 million Series B round of investment. 
Quantum Machines has raised $50 million in Series B investment to accelerate its expansion into quantum cloud computing and increase its global distribution. 
EdgeConneX has acquired GDC, an Israeli data center operator situated in Herzliya, Israel’s hi-tech area. GDC’s “state-of-the-art, highly secured†subterranean facilities in Herzliya and Petah Tikva, near Tel Aviv, will be added to the EdgeConneX global data center platform after the transaction is completed. 
Cloud data protection company, Baffle, has raised $20 million in Series B funding led by Celesta Capital. Baffle is a data-centric security solution that secures data anywhere it is produced, stored, and processed, from any source to any destination, on-premises or in the cloud. 
Still operated under the CenturyLink brand, Lumen’s ILEC (incumbent local exchange carrier) business with operations in 20 U.S. states will be sold to Apollo Funds for $7.5 billion. 
After securing more than $15 million in Series A investment, Atom Computing, a fast-growing quantum computing start-up, announces its move into the next phase of growth. Atom Computing would be the first business to create nuclear-spin qubits from an alkaline earth metal. 
Rack Centre, a West Africa based carrier neutral data center colocation provider offering direct connection to all 5 undersea cables serving the South Atlantic Coast of Africa and every country on the Atlantic coast of Africa, has completed the doubling of its IT load capacity to 1.5 MW at its LGS 1 site in Lagos, Nigera. 
IPI Partners, LLC, a worldwide investment platform focused entirely on data centers and other technology and connectivity-related real assets, will acquire 100% ownership of all DigiPlex Group companies. 
Anjuna, a company making public cloud more secure for businesses, has announced the successful closing of its Series B financing. The company has managed to raise an amount of $30 million led by Insight Partners. 
Global data network and edge computing services provider, Macrometa, has announced the closing of a $20 million series A funding round. The company was able to raise such a huge amount just after eight months of raising $7 million in the seed round. 
In a round led by Dell Technologies Capital with significant participation from existing investor Ibex Investors, Lightspin has raised $16 million in Series A funding. This round brings total funding to date for the cloud security company from Israel to $20 million. 
Illumio, a pioneer in Zero Trust Segmentation, has raised $225 million in Series F financing while being valued at $2.75 billion. Illumio will use this money to speed up product and technical innovation, invest more in customer success, and expand their worldwide channel partner strategy. 
After acquiring M2 Enterprise Group last month, data center services, cloud, and Internet infrastructure marketplace UPSTACK has acquired another company. Now they’ve bought PacTech Partners, a large-scale network and communications consulting business. The transaction’s terms were not disclosed. 
Mitiga, a provider of cloud-based cybersecurity solutions for incident readiness & response in cloud and hybrid IT environments has raised $25 million in Series-A funding. It brings the company’s total funding to $32 million. 
Robin.io, a pioneer in Kubernetes-based cloud-native 5G, edge, and corporate application management, has closed an oversubscribed $38 million Series C investment round. Rakuten Capital led the funding round, which included Clear Ventures, Emory University, Raine Next-Gen Communications, and existing investors. The Series C increases Robin.io’s total capital raised to $86 million. 
