Each month I do a small recap of cybersecurity funding and acquisition stats by the numbers with visuals.
At a Glance
The cybersecurity funding landscape for April 2022.
More than $1.9B was invested in 60 cybersecurity companies across 34 unique product categories in April 2022, up from $1.23B in 52 companies from March 2022.
Nearly $20B accounted for 29 companies with an acquisition or merger event across 16 unique product categories.
More than 50% of funding went to United States-based companies, with more than 21% going to Switzerland-based companies and ~10% going to Israeli-based companies.
More than 4% of funding went to Pre-Seed and Seed rounds in April, up from 2.67% in March
Top Funded Product Categories
$412.0M for Application Security
$232.8M for Data Protection
$215.0M for Managed Detection and Response (MDR)
$180.0M for Endpoint Protection
$147.5M for Threat & Vulnerability Management (TVM)
Top Funded Industries
$952.3M was not industry-specific
$412.0M for Developer Tools / Open Source
$150.0M for Information Technology
$125.0M for Government / Critical Infrastructure and Energy
$103.3M for Financial Services
Top Lead Investor Teams
$412.0M for Advent International, General Catalyst
$215.0M for Vista Equity Partners
$125.0M for Goldman Sachs Asset Management
$110.0M for Accel
$100.0M for Novator, Burda Principal Investments
Top Countries Funded
$1.0B+ for United States
$412.0M for Switzerland
$202.0M for Israel
$100.0M for Lithuania
$94.0M for Hungary
Data Collection Methodology
A few tenants I follow for collecting and creating this data:
I only use public data sources
I evaluate each company that makes this list to make sure they are solving a cybersecurity problem
I personally assign the product category for each company (regardless of what their marketing says)
All funding and acquisition values are in U.S. dollars
All funding amounts are from the time of collection
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