Security, Funded - April 2022 Roll-Up

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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