Cloud infrastructure company Volumez, which develops controller orchestration software, raised a $20M Series A led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Meir Orbach / CTech:Cloud infrastructure company Volumez, which develops controller orchestration software, raised a $20M Series A led by Koch Disruptive Technologies  —  Volumez’s controller-less architecture composes direct Linux data paths between media and applications, helping companies convert knowledge into intelligence quickly and at scale

Silver Lake agrees to buy Germany’s Software AG, a developer of business and application integration software, for €30 a share, valuing the company at ~€2.2B (Andrew Pollack/Bloomberg)

Andrew Pollack / Bloomberg:Silver Lake agrees to buy Germany’s Software AG, a developer of business and application integration software, for €30 a share, valuing the company at ~€2.2B  —  Private equity firm Silver Lake Management has agreed to acquire Germany’s Software AG for €30 a share in cash …

Austin-based cybersecurity company Halcyon, which provides protection against ransomware, raised a $50M Series A, including $6M in debt, led by SYN Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:Austin-based cybersecurity company Halcyon, which provides protection against ransomware, raised a $50M Series A, including $6M in debt, led by SYN Ventures  —  Following the Colonial Pipeline incident in 2021, Jon Miller and Ryan Smith wondered why, with the widespread adoption of security tools …