Below is a list of estimated venture capital (VC) funds provided to security start-up companies in 2012. A surprising total estimate of $649 million dollars were invested in 2012. Please feel free to comment if you know of any others.
Note: The table below are Gartner Estimates (actual numbers may vary).
| Company Name | 2012 (Millions USD) | |
| Norse Corporation | 3.5 | |
| Tenable | 50 | |
| zScaler | 38 | |
| Mocana | 25 | |
| Lockpath | 6 | |
| Alienvault | 30 | |
| Bit9 | 34.5 | |
| Alarm.com | 136 | |
| Alertlogic | 12 | |
| Xceedium | 7.5 | |
| Unikey | 1.5 | |
| Bromium | 30 | |
| Securekey | 30 | |
| AnchorFree | 52 | |
| Pindrop | 1 | |
| Appthority | 6.25 | |
| 41st Parameter | 13 | |
| Cloudpassage | 14 | |
| IntrinsicID | 6.57 | |
| Veracode | 30 | |
| Shape Security | 6 | |
| Itadsecurity | 0.07 | |
| Watchdox | 9 | |
| CloudLock | 8.7 | |
| ThreatMetrix | 18 | |
| StoptheHacker | 1.1 | |
| Duo Security | 5 | |
| Vaultive | 10 | |
| CrowdStrike | 26 | |
| LookingGlass | 5 | |
| Accellion | 13.4 | |
| Solera Networks | 20 | |
| Stormpath | 1.5 | |
| Total | 650.59 | |
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1 An estimated $649 million dollars spent by Venture Capitalists on security start-ups in 2012 January 17, 2013 at 10:08 pm
[...] analysis of publicly announced VC funding, and came to the following: See my Gartner.com blog post here. Tags: analysis, com, Security Tagged with: analysis • com • Security If [...]
2 650 Million USD: What VCs Invested In Security Startups In 2012 | Statspotting! January 19, 2013 at 9:21 am
[...] 650 Million USD: What VCs Invested In Security Startups In 2012 January 19, 2013 9:21 am var addthis_product = 'wpp-262'; var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true,"data_track_addressbar":false};if (typeof(addthis_share) == "undefined"){ addthis_share = [];}We had spotted the top five industries from a VC investment standpoint – we spotted this stat today, that VCs invested some 650 million usds in 2012, in security startups alone. (Source) [...]