SUSE Acquisition, Valuation, Funding & Investors

Verisign is an operator of critical infrastructure within the domain name system, or DNS. As the registry for some of the world’s most popular TLDs, .com and .net, Verisign directs DNS resolvers to the appropriate registry where IP addresses are stored. Verisign’s control over its TLDs is regulated by ICANN and the NTIA and are subject to contract renewal every six years. The company generates revenue through annual subscriptions allowing customers to use .com and .net as their TLD of choice for their respective websites.

ServiceNow Inc provides software solutions to structure and automate various business processes via a SaaS delivery model. The company primarily focuses on the IT function for enterprise customers. ServiceNow began with IT service management, expanded within the IT function, and more recently directed its workflow automation logic to functional areas beyond IT, notably customer service, HR service delivery, and security operations. ServiceNow also offers an application development platform as a service.

Megaport is one of the world’s largest software-defined network service providers, enabling around 3,000 enterprise customers to connect to over 1000 data centers throughout the world. Megaport’s services mostly revolve around enabling enterprises to connect to cloud service providers, like Amazon Web Services, but it also offers services to enable businesses to connect across multiple data centers and to internet exchanges.

Aiven is a Helsinki-headquartered cloud data platform managing open-source technologies like PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, and OpenSearch across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. Serving over 4,000 organizations including Adobe and N26, it automates scaling for petabyte-scale workloads with 99.99 percent uptime. Founded in 2016, Aiven employs 500 staff across Berlin, Sydney, Toronto, and Boston.

OVH Groupe is a provider of cloud services, occupying a position in the cloud market. It provides businesses with a complete suite of solutions designed to meet the growing demand for multi-cloud and hybrid cloud strategies, addressing a wide range of needs and customer segments. Geographically operates in France, Europe and Rest of the world. It has three operating segments: Private Cloud, Public Cloud and Web Cloud & Other.

Biprogy Inc is engaged in the service business, such as cloud and outsourcing, sales/rental of computer systems and network systems, software development/sales, and various system services. The company operates through five segments. The Hardware segment supplies equipment through sales contracts and lease agreements. The Outsourcing segment handles information system operation consignment. The Software segment provides licensed software. The Support Service segment offers software and hardware maintenance, implementation support, and related services. The System Service segment covers contract software development, SE services, and consulting, and the Others segment includes line services and equipment construction.

Beijing Sinnet Technology Co Ltd is a professional data center and cloud computing service provider in China. The company's main business is Internet data center services (IDC and its value-added services), cloud computing services, Internet broadband access services (ISP) and other Internet integrated services.

Netweb Technologies India Ltd is one of India’s high-end computing solutions (HCS) providers, with fully integrated design and manufacturing capabilities. Its products include Data Center Server, AI Systems & Workstation, Private Cloud HCI, High Performance Storage, and HPC Systems. Its HCS offering comprises HPC, Private cloud and HCI, AI systems and enterprise workstations, High performance storage (HPS), and Data Centre Servers. The Company has identified the Computer server as the only primary reportable segment.

Kingsoft Cloud Holdings Ltd is an independent cloud service provider in China. It provides integrated cloud-based services including cloud computing, storage, and delivery. Its products and services are Security, Database, Data Analysis, Networking, and others. Its solutions are medical, government affairs, finance, media, education, gaming, Vehicle solutions, and others.

United Internet Ventures operates high-performance internet infrastructure with data centers supporting 61 million customer accounts across Europe. The group manages brands like 1&1 IONOS, GMX, WEB.DE, Strato, and Fasthosts, alongside investments in listed and startup companies. Headquartered in Montabaur, Germany, since 1995, it employs thousands in product development and sales.

Thought Machine is a London-headquartered fintech founded in 2017, delivering the Vault Core cloud-native banking platform to replace legacy systems. Adopted by JPMorgan Chase for its digital bank, Lloyds Banking Group, and Standard Chartered across retail, corporate, and investment banking, Vault supports real-time processing via microservices on AWS and Google Cloud. The platform handles mortgages, deposits, and payments compliant with PSD2 regulations. Thought Machine serves 20+ financial institutions globally with headquarters in the UK and offices in Singapore and New York.

JumpCloud is a cloud directory platform enabling zero-trust access to resources from any device. Louisville, Colorado-headquartered and founded in 2012, it manages identities and devices for 180,000 organizations worldwide, including Cars.com and Foursquare. Backed by investors like General Atlantic, the service integrates with Microsoft Entra ID and supports RADIUS authentication.

Freshworks Inc provides software as a service platform that enables small and medium-sized businesses to support customers through e-mail, phone, website, and social networks. It offers solutions that serve the needs of users in the CS and ITSM categories and has also expanded its offering with Sales and Marketing automation products. These product offerings enable organizations to acquire, engage, and serve their customers and employees. The group derives revenue from North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific, and Other regions.

Plume Design is a Palo Alto-headquartered SaaS platform that powers Wi-Fi services for over 60 million homes worldwide. Communications service providers like Rogers Communications and Frontier Communications use its cloud-managed solution to deliver adaptive Wi-Fi, parental controls, security features, and device optimization. The platform integrates with OpenSync for multi-vendor hardware support and provides operators with analytics dashboards for network management. Founded in 2015, Plume serves more than 200 service providers across North America, Europe, and Asia.

Selectel is a St. Petersburg-headquartered provider of cloud and hosting services from six Tier-III data centers across Russia, including locations in Moscow and Novosibirsk. It supplies dedicated servers, colocation racks, virtual private servers, and public cloud infrastructure with a 100% uptime service level agreement. Additional offerings encompass DDoS mitigation, content delivery networks, and a proprietary fiber-optic backbone network spanning 10,000 kilometers. Founded in 2006, Selectel serves over 7,000 clients including Yandex and Kaspersky Lab, generating annual revenues exceeding $100 million.

Sinch AB provides cloud communication services and solutions to enterprises and mobile operators. The operating segments are Americas, EMEA, and APAC. The Americas region includes both North and Latin America, with the U.S. and Brazil being the contributing countries. The EMEA operating segment serves Sinch customers across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, with the contributing countries being the UK and France. The APAC operating segment serves Sinch customers throughout the Asia-Pacific region, with India and Australia as the contributing countries.

Lambda is a provider of GPU-accelerated cloud and hardware solutions for AI workloads including model training, fine-tuning, inference, and deployment. Its platform offers on-demand NVIDIA A100 and H100 GPU instances, multi-node clusters scaling to thousands of GPUs, pre-configured workstations with RTX GPUs, and a software stack integrating PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Kubernetes. Founded in 2012, the San Francisco-headquartered company serves over 5,000 AI teams worldwide, including researchers from OpenAI and Meta, and delivers clusters with up to 99.9% uptime for enterprise-scale ML pipelines.

Sysdig is a San Francisco-headquartered cloud security company founded in 2013, providing runtime protection for containers and Kubernetes using open-source Falco. The platform monitors workloads across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, detecting threats via behavioral analysis and integrating with SIEM tools. Sysdig serves enterprises like Barclays and Lufthansa, with over 800 employees globally.