{"id":260925,"date":"2026-06-01T07:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/big-ticket-early-stage-bets-fuel-europes-cybersecurity-funding\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T08:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T12:05:19","slug":"big-ticket-early-stage-bets-fuel-europes-cybersecurity-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/big-ticket-early-stage-bets-fuel-europes-cybersecurity-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Big ticket early-stage bets fuel Europe’s cybersecurity funding"},"content":{"rendered":"

Big ticket early-stage bets fuel Europe’s cybersecurity funding<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/sectors\/technology\/articles\/big-ticket-early-stage-bets-114950833.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-01 07:49:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: finance.yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n

CRIME POLICE CENTER FOR CYBER SECURITY <\/p>\n

Dirk Waem\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

After a near-record year for European cybersecurity VC funding, investment has maintained pace in Q1, with the focus shifting to larger early-stage deals.<\/p>\n

In the first three months of the year, Europe attracted $1 billion in cybersecurity VC investment, according to our latest report on the sector<\/span>, putting the amount broadly on track to match 2025\u2019s full-year total\u2014the second-highest figure in a decade. However, the cadence of dealmaking has trailed since last year, with 61 deals closing\u2014indicating that deals are getting larger despite early-stage startups accounting for a greater share of capital, suggesting that investors are making fewer but larger bets on perceived category winners.<\/p>\n

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The growing share of capital going to early-stage startups in Europe\u2019s cybersecurity sector aligns with a global shift. For the first time in more than three years, deal value for early-stage startups globally exceeded that of late-stage startups, reaching $2.1 billion.<\/p>\n

In Q1, the global median for cybersecurity rounds stood at $25 million, more than double 2025\u2019s figure and significantly above late-stage\u2019s median of $17.5 million.<\/p>\n

VCs\u2019 move toward younger companies coincides with the rise of AI-native cybersecurity startups raising larger rounds, such as Israeli insider-threat platform developer Above<\/span>, which raised $50 million in March.<\/p>\n

Six of Q1\u2019s largest European rounds in the vertical were for early-stage companies; only two were late-stage.<\/p>\n

Tel Aviv-based Gambit Security<\/span>, developer of an AI-based cyber resilience platform, raised $61 million in February from investors including Spark Capital<\/span>, Kleiner Perkins<\/span> and Cyberstarts<\/span>. Aikido Security<\/span>, a Belgium-based startup offering AI penetration testing, reached unicorn status in January with a $60 million Series B led by DST Global<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Security operations, which covers the real-time detection, investigation and response to…<\/p>\n

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