Dataminr To Acquire ThreatConnect For $290M, Boost AI-Driven Threat Intel

ThreatConnect will bring its platform that combines aggregation of cyber threat intelligence with risk prioritization to Dataminr’s AI platform, the company says.

Dataminr announced Tuesday it has reached a deal to acquire ThreatConnect for $290 million, in a move aimed at boosting its capabilities around AI-powered threat intelligence.

ThreatConnect will bring its cyber threat intelligence and risk prioritization offering to Dataminr’s AI platform, which focuses on providing rapid threat intel and risk detection, according to Dataminr.

Specifically, Dataminr Pulse for Cyber Risk and ThreatConnect will be unified into a joint offering to provide enhanced threat intel and prioritization as well as “faster, more precise” responses, Dataminr said in a news release.

Dataminr’s platform utilizes both LLMs and predictive AI models to analyze nearly 1 million public data sources, providing the ability to uncover events and predict threats in advance, according to the company. Key capabilities include “regenerative AI” that continually updates descriptions of events in real time as they’re unfolding.

Meanwhile, ThreatConnect offers a platform that combines aggregation of cyber threat intelligence with the risk quantification that organizations are increasingly seeking today, the company has said.

The planned acquisition comes after both companies have been doubling down on work with solution and service provider partners.

In December 2024, cybersecurity industry veteran Chris Lehman joined ThreatConnect as its new president to drive accelerated growth with channel partners at the vendor, Lehman told CRN at the time.

Then in February, Dataminr debuted its new channel program with a tiered system and an array of other improvements to expand opportunities for partners in AI-powered threat intelligence, Channel Chief Matthew Harrell told CRN at the time.

The announcement Tuesday highlighted the channel focus of the two companies and the partner opportunities ahead, with the news release including a quote from Jim Kavanaugh, co-founder and CEO of World Wide Technology.

For WWT, No. 9 on CRN’s Solution Provider 500 for 2025, the combination of Dataminr and ThreatConnect will complement WWT's cybersecurity capabilities and Advanced Technology Center “to help organizations move from reactive to proactive,” Kavanaugh said in the release.

Notably, the two companies have also been supported by cybersecurity-focused venture firm NightDragon and by its founder and CEO, cybersecurity luminary Dave DeWalt.

In 2022, Dataminr named DeWalt as chair of its corporate market advisory board, while announcing a strategic partnership with NightDragon. The venture firm most recently invested in Dataminr as part of the company’s $85 million round in March.

In 2023, DeWalt became chairman of the board at ThreatConnect, telling CRN at the time that ThreatConnect offered the ability to “aggregate cyber intelligence to make it more efficient, and more accurate, and easier to respond to.”

DeWalt, who was formerly CEO of prominent cybersecurity vendors including FireEye and McAfee, said that ThreatConnect’s unique capabilities enable the vendor to prioritize threats for customers based on their particular risks.

“From my mission point-of-view of running companies and having to deal with threats like this — boy, do we need it,” he said at the time. “Society has to have something [like ThreatConnect].”