Analysis

February 21, 2023

Cybersecurity startups to watch, according to VCs

As the amount of data in our world grows, the need to protect it does too. Here are some of the cybersecurity startups VCs are watching


Sadia Nowshin

5 min read

It was recently estimated by the World Economic Forum that by 2025 there’ll be 463 exabytes of data created each day globally — that’s the equivalent of 212m DVDs, for those who remember them. That exponential growth of data sets up a skirmish between hackers trying to access that information and the cybersecurity startups trying to stop them — something investors are jumping on.

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Sadia Nowshin

Sadia Nowshin was a reporter at Sifted covering foodtech, biotech and startup life. Follow her on X and LinkedIn

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