Security News > 2022 > August > State of cybersecurity funding in the first half of 2022

In the first half of 2022, the cybersecurity industry saw venture capital funding continue to pour into the space, according to Momentum Cyber's Market Review for 1H 2022.

These trends are tracked by Momentum Cyber, the industry's first investment bank focused exclusively on cybersecurity, in its Cybersecurity Market Review for 1H 2022.

This is comparable to the first half of 2021, which saw $12.6 billion in funding and was by all counts a record year for cybersecurity investment.

Cyber IPOs still MIA. We continue to experience the longest IPO drought in cybersecurity history, with no new cyber IPOs in 2022 so far this year.

The first half of 2022 saw some of the biggest acquisition deals in cybersecurity history, both from a financing size perspective and from their significance.

"The first half of 2022 was a tale of two quarters. Strategic activity in the first quarter reached an all-time high with a very sharp decline in the second quarter," said Eric McAlpine, Managing Partner at Momentum Cyber.

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