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Newest story built on en.globes.co.il reporting: Proofpoint signs a merger agreement to acquire Varonis (October 15, 2026). en.globes.co.il reporting informs the Invest, Product, and Security desks, most often on AI Agent Security, Cybersecurity venture funding, and Israeli Tech Sector. 9 of our current stories draw on it, the earliest from August 25, 2026.
Proofpoint has agreed to acquire Varonis in an all-cash deal valued at about $6.3 billion, or $49.75 a share. Varonis expects the deal to close in the first half of 2027, and until then the two companies stay independent.
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Bessemer and Lightspeed co-led the funding that takes Zenzap, an Israeli workplace-chat startup, to $44 million raised as it leaves stealth. Calcalist reports $33 million of it is the Series A and $11 million a 2022 seed.
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Amazon is negotiating to buy Decart, whose software runs AI models on Nvidia, Google and Amazon chips, for about $7 billion, Bloomberg reported. The software is neutral across rivals' silicon, and a buyer with its own chip among the three would own it.
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Reco, whose software maps what AI agents can reach and cuts unneeded access, added $55 million in a field of at least two dozen rivals. Their pitches share one vocabulary, so a buyer has to compare what each product does once it finds an agent.
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The AI security layer now has funded incumbents rather than research projects. What this round does not break out matters as much as what it does.
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Huskeys closed $27m five months after leaving stealth, with Blackstone leading what Globes calls the firm's first early-stage cybersecurity round. The cheque is worth about 0.002% of its assets.
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The Intel spinout is selling 14 months after a round valued it at $102 million, and Intel's retained fifth turns into roughly $100 million of Cognex's balance-sheet cash. RealSense guides to $80 million to $90 million of 2026 revenue.
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The $130 million round is all primary equity at an estimated $1 billion valuation, so roughly 13 percent of the company changed hands, and the recurring revenue it is priced against is described only as tens of millions of dollars.
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Worth roughly two fifths of HiBob's annual sales, the cheque is all primary and almost all strategic, which says something about how comfortable private capital has become funding the agent-workforce build.
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