Untangle raises $8 million round to expand overseas for open-source security appliances

Untangle raises $8 million round to expand overseas for open-source security appliances

Untangle has raised $8 million in a second round of funding for an overseas expansion of its open-source networking and security business.

Investors include CMEA Ventures and Rustic Canyon Ventures, the same companies that invested $10.5 million Untangle’s first round of funding, according to VentureWire. (Our previous coverage of Untangle is here).

The company has raised about $20 million to date. Based in San Mateo, Calif. and founded in 2005, the company makes network and security appliances… Continue Reading

Aventail, a VPN company, sells to SonicWall for $25M

Aventail, a Seattle, Washington provider of technology that allows employees to remotely access their corporate network, has agreed to be acquired by SonicWall of Sunnyvale, Calif. for $25 million in cash.

See statement here.

While Aventail saw revenues of $18 million last year, it wasn’t profitable.

Over the past eleven years, Aventail had raised about $110 million from venture capitalists and strategic investors, including Oak Investment Partners, Trinity Ventures and many others.