Cybersecurity is hot: Here are the biggest backers

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http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/10/10/cybersecurity-is-hot-heres-the.html

By Cromwell Schubarth
Senior Technology Reporter
Silicon Valley Business Journal
Oct 10, 2013

Cybersecurity is hot, with FireEye's recent doubling in stock price after 
going public and this week's $255 million acquisition of fingerprint tech 
company Validity Sensors the most recent examples.

But these are hardly isolated examples, according to recent reports from 
investment research firm CB Insights.

There have been nearly 80 sales and IPOs in the past 12 months by 
cybersecurity startups with an average tenfold return on investment, CB 
Insights reported.

In the same time frame there has been about $1.4 billion invested in 239 
deals in the sector by venture firms.

The biggest investors in the sector since January 2012 have been Kleiner 
Perkins Caufield and Byers and Andreessen Horowitz, with 13 deals each.

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