Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Chef Acquires VulcanoSec

Seattle-based IT automation software developer Chef said today that it has acquried German security software developer VulcanoSec. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. VulcanoSec's technology is behind the Chef software offering, Chef Compliance. As part of the acquisition, Chef said that Chef Compliance's features will be incorporated into its complete platform. The buy comes on the heels of a $40M investment round in Chef in September, which came from DFJ Growth, Millenium Technology Value Partners, Battery Ventures, Citi Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Ignition Partners, Scale Venture Partners, and Hewlett Packard Ventures.