IBM agrees to acquire corporate venturing-backed Blade Network Technologies.

US-listed computer company IBM has agreed to acquire corporate venturing-backed Blade Network Technologies, a local provider of data centre equipment, for an undisclosed sum.

Twelve months earlier Blade completed an investment round giving it a valuation of $230m.

In September last year, Blade raised $10m of a planned $14.25m round from three strategic investors: NEC Corporation, Juniper Networks and another undisclosed company, and private equity firm Garnett & Helfrich Capital, according to a regulatory filing.

Garnett & Helfrich invested…