Picking Winners: How the Pandemic Changed Cybersecurity Investing
summary
Venture activity pauses briefly in Q2 2020 then accelerates: cybersecurity deal count rises from 420 to 540, a 28% increase and funding climbs to $11 billion as firms and founders shift to remote diligence and close deals entirely over Zoom. Demand focuses on cloud and edge protections, identity and data governance, and automation across development pipelines — think policy as code and zero trust staples — while managed security services scale to fill talent and ops gaps.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:11Are investors prepared for the pandemic
- 7:15What happened in 2020
- 10:55Risk tolerance
- 12:13Challenges of working from home
- 17:37Meeting founders remotely
- 21:42Changing the way you work
- 26:06Using technology to maintain relationships
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