The endpoint management software provider has secured roughly $120m from strategic partner Salesforce, bumping its valuation up from $6.5bn to $9bn.

Enterprise software producer Salesforce has invested an amount likely to be about $120m in US-based cybersecurity technology provider Tanium at a $9bn valuation.

Although the companies have not confirmed the size of the deal, Tanium said in an emailed statement cited by CNBC that it has now raised $900m altogether, up from roughly $780m as of its last round, when it secured $200m in October 2018 at a $6.5bn pre-money valuation.

Tanium has built software that manages and secures…

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Robert Lavine is special features editor for Global Venturing.