{"id":348537,"date":"2025-12-14T16:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T16:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/348537\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T16:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T16:57:08","slug":"servicenow-reportedly-in-talks-to-acquire-cybersecurity-startup-armis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/348537\/","title":{"rendered":"ServiceNow reportedly in talks to acquire cybersecurity startup Armis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Software company ServiceNow is in advanced talks to buy cybersecurity startup Armis, which was last <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/11\/05\/armis-raises-435-million-at-6point1-billion-valuation.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">valued at $6.1 billion<\/a>, Bloomberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-12-14\/servicenow-said-to-near-deal-to-buy-armis-for-up-to-7-billion?embedded-checkout=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The deal, which could reach $7 billion in value, would be ServiceNow&#8217;s largest acquisition, the outlet said, citing people familiar with the situation who asked not to be identified because the talks are private.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition could be announced as soon as this week, but could still fall apart, according to the report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Armis and ServiceNow did not immediately return a CNBC request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Armis, which helps companies secure and manage internet-connected devices and protect them against cyber threats, raised $435 million in a funding round just over a month ago and told CNBC about its eventual plans for an IPO.<\/p>\n<p>Armis CEO Yevgeny Dibrov and CTO Nadir Izrael.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy: Armis<\/p>\n<p>CEO and co-founder Yevgeny Dibrov said Armis was aiming for a public listing at the end of 2026 or early 2027, pending &#8220;market conditions.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Armis&#8217;s decision to be acquired rather than wait for a public listing is a common path for startups at the moment. The IPO markets remain choppy and many startups are choosing to remain private for longer instead of risking a muted debut on the public markets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2016, Armis said in August it had surpassed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armis.com\/newsroom\/press\/armis-surpasses-300m-arr-as-demand-for-exposure-management-security-soars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">$300 million in annual recurring revenues<\/a>, a milestone it achieved less than a year after reaching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armis.com\/newsroom\/press\/armis-surpasses-200m-arr-doubling-arr-in-less-than-18-months\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">$200 million in ARR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Its latest funding round was led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/GS\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Goldman Sachs<\/a> Alternatives&#8217; growth equity fund, with participation from CapitalG, a venture arm of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/GOOGL\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alphabet<\/a>. Previous backers have included Sequoia Capital and Bain Capital Ventures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/11\/05\/armis-raises-435-million-at-6point1-billion-valuation.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the complete Bloomberg article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Software company ServiceNow is in advanced talks to buy cybersecurity startup Armis, which was last valued at $6.1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[173869,5681,28,122,7257,174,18030,74],"class_list":["post-348537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-asure-software-inc","tag-breaking-news-technology","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-cybersecurity","tag-internet","tag-servicenow-inc","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}