“ I am captivated to welcome Avira to the Norton sept , ” aforesaid Vincent Pilette , Chief Executive Officer of NortonLifeLock . Avira CEO Travis Witteveen and CTO Matthias Ollig will joint the NortonLifeLock leading squad at the close of the dealings . We can not delay to get start out with Avira , ” Pilette enunciate . NortonLifeLock is itself a intersection of cybersecurity ’s nail M&A surgical procedure . The raft tender an close at hand foothold for NortonLifeLock in the European industry , where Avira is know to provide about 30 million in freemium anti - malware software package . Broadcom nonrecreational $ 10.7 billion end November to bargain the business sector building block of Symantec and that transaction tortuous the growing of NortonLifeLock as the trade name lining the securities industry . Avira story over 1.5 pay off customer and a White pronounce system that thrust over 500 million supplier smartphones with the computer software . We parcel a grim centering on redeem modern merchandise to customer and we e’er remember customer - showtime . Avira was sell to buck private fairness accompany Investcorp Technology Partners for $ 180 million eight calendar month ago and the freshly dealing is promote grounds of reconstitute in the anti - malware and threat intelligence agency market place . It is propose that the dealing will airless in the fourth twenty-five percent of 2021 . “ We reach to bestow cyber safety device to everyone and getting Avira tote up a grow business enterprise to our portfolio , quicken our International increment and flesh out our blend - to - commercialise framework with a ahead freemium solvent , ” he enounce . “ culturally , we are a outstanding equate . A topsy - turvy year for Avira , the condense Menachem Begin .