Cybersecurity
Security, identity, threat intel, privacy
At a glance
1.1 Overview
Cybersecurity has a deep pipeline of startups at every stage
By stage reached; about 1,525 new startups a year, 670 of them funded. Hover a stage for conversion rates.
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5,288
Startups
$100K–15M raised
Share that raise the next roundPre-seed → seed24%Seed → Series A36%Series A → Series B41%
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1,780
Breakouts
$15–100M raised
Share that raise the next roundSeries B → Series C38%
- 497 Scaleups $100M+ raised
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188
Unicorns and thoroughbreds
valued at $1B+, $100M+ revenue, or both
How they splitValued at $1B+ only62$100M+ revenue only22Both104Of the $1B+: 151 unicorns, 12 decacorns, 3 centicorns
Source: Dealroom.co, October 2026 · cybersecurity companies worldwide; bar heights on a log scale
1.2 Enterprise value
Cybersecurity value by company status
Combined enterprise value of VC-backed cybersecurity companies founded since 1990, at the end of each year, grouped by whether they are public, acquired or private today.
1.3 🔥 Hottest sub-segments
What's heating up inside Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity sub-sectors ranked by Dealroom's curated signal score (combines funding velocity, unicorn formation, recency).
Heat ranking from venture-sector-lens — Dealroom's curated 0–100 sector signal combining funding velocity, unicorn formation, and emergence.
The companies
2.1 Related market maps
Dive deeper: Cybersecurity market maps
Hand-curated landscape charts from the Dealroom data team. Each map ranks every tracked startup in the segment by valuation, revenue, growth and funding.
Browse the full collection of 170+ market maps on Dealroom.
The money
3.1 Rounds & valuations
Largest Cybersecurity rounds & most valuable companies
A live treemap of $100M+ rounds — or switch the view to size companies by their latest valuation (EV). Filter by HQ region; drag the year slider to add earlier rounds.
Largest Cybersecurity rounds - Global 2026
3.2 VC investment
When the capital landed in Cybersecurity
VC investment into Cybersecurity companies over the last decade, broken down by round size, company location, sector and funding stage. Counts VC rounds into companies tagged or classified to Cybersecurity. Live from the Dealroom Next Gen API.
3.3 Exits
First-time exits since 2024
Each bubble is a VC-backed cybersecurity company sold or listed for the first time, sized by its value at exit.
Geography & talent
4.1 Geographic concentration
Where Cybersecurity startups concentrate
Cities and countries ranked by Cybersecurity unicorns headquartered there, plus countries that over-index the global average (5× = 5× more represented than globally).
4.2 Founder origins
Israel has the most cybersecurity unicorn founders per person
Founders of cybersecurity companies valued at $1B+, per 1M inhabitants of the country they come from.
World average: 0.05. European countries in blue. Countries with 1M+ inhabitants and 3+ founders. Hover a row for the counts.
- Israel 90 founders · 36 companies 9.0
- Lithuania 3 founders · 1 company 1.0
- Ireland 4 founders · 2 companies 0.74
- United States 125 founders · 60 companies 0.37
- Czech Republic 4 founders · 2 companies 0.37
- Canada 15 founders · 10 companies 0.36
- Australia 6 founders · 3 companies 0.22
- United Kingdom 12 founders · 6 companies 0.17
- Romania 3 founders · 1 company 0.16
- France 8 founders · 6 companies 0.12
Source: Dealroom.co. Founder origins researched for 139 of the 166 cybersecurity companies valued at $1B+; a founder counts once per company.
4.3 Founder snowball
Startups founded by former employees of cybersecurity companies
Each row is a cybersecurity company and each dot a cybersecurity startup its former employees founded after leaving. A line links a startup that later became a row of its own.
Benchmark & beyond
5.1 Sector comparison
How Cybersecurity stacks up
Compare Cybersecurity with the other simplified sectors — switch between combined EV, 5-year EV growth, and a growth × size view. Expand the table for every sector.
Combined enterprise value of each sector.
Every simplified sector ranked by combined EV. Cybersecurity's row is highlighted (#10).
| # | Ecosystem | Combined EV | EV growth | Unicorns | VC invested | Tracked startups |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AI | $3.5T | 9.2× | 320 | $145B | 18.5K |
| 2 | Fintech | $1.9T | 4.8× | 318 | $38B | 21.8K |
| 3 | B2B Software | $1.7T | 4.4× | 305 | $28B | 36K |
| 4 | Consumer Services | $1.3T | 2.4× | 220 | $22B | 23K |
| 5 | Biotech & Life Sciences | $1.1T | 3.4× | 158 | $26B | 9,200 |
| 6 | eCommerce & Marketplaces | $1.1T | 2.8× | 175 | $18B | 18.8K |
| 7 | Energy | $920B | 6.2× | 110 | $32B | 7,600 |
| 8 | Transportation | $880B | 3.7× | 88 | $19B | 4,400 |
| 9 | Health Tech & Medtech | $720B | 4.1× | 142 | $16B | 12.4K |
| 10 | Cybersecurity | $480B | 4.4× | 92 | $14B | 6,800 |
| 11 | Space | $380B | 5.6× | 32 | $7.4B | 1,400 |
| 12 | Food | $320B | 3.0× | 56 | $5.8B | 4,200 |
| 13 | Semiconductors | $240B | 7.6× | 26 | $8.4B | 980 |
| 14 | Edtech | $220B | 2.1× | 38 | $4.2B | 5,800 |
| 15 | Defence | $175B | 7.8× | 28 | $6.2B | 720 |
| 16 | Robotics | $165B | 6.1× | 28 | $9.1B | 1,600 |
| 17 | Marketing | $150B | 3.6× | 38 | $4.4B | 6,200 |
| 18 | Aviation | $95B | 4.2× | 12 | $3.8B | 540 |
5.2 Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Cybersecurity
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Cybersecurity on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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