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Security, Funded - April 2022 Roll-Up

A recap of cybersecurity funding and acquisition news from April 2022.

Mike P

• 2 min read

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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