According to CBinsights, among the IPOs in 2013, the security networking company stands out. FireEye que ha doblado desde su debut en el Nasdaq. Pero el caso no ha sido la única venta exitosa recientemente, en el último año 78 empresas han vendido dentro del sector. También en España hay casos relevantes como alient vault.
$1.4Bn of investment in the last year
Topping the list of the most active investors are heavyweights like Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Andreessen Horowitz with 13 deals each. KPCB's latest cybersecurity financing rounds include AlienVault and Ionic Security. KPCB also participated in a funding round in 2011 for Mandiantthe Virginia-based information security firm that exposed China's military unit in hacking with US corporations and government agencies. Andreessen Horowitz, meanwhile, has recently been involved in a number of early stage cyber security deals, including a Series A round in BlueBox, Seguridad Pindrop y CipherCloud.
Spain presents several relevant cases
El caso màs reciente y relevante ha sido alient vaultempresa española dedicada a la provisión de soluciones de gestión unificada de la seguridad e información sobre amenazas mediante colaboración masiva, que acaba de realizar una nueva ronda de financiación por valor de $26,5M que ha estado liderada por GGV Capital and which has also involved current investors such as Trident Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Sigma West and Adara Venture Partners, así como se ha dado entrada a nuevos inversores Top Tier Capital y Correlation Ventures.
«España ha presentado casos de éxito durante los últimos años desde que la empresa bilbaína Panda Software received a $14M round of funding in a round led by Investindustrial. Another leading company with international projection is S21sec which is dedicated to the protection of digital assets in order to successfully and timely respond to online fraud and cybersecurity threats. Telvent is the lead industrial partner with the acquisition of Telvent's stake in the company. SODENA (20%) en la empresa. Estas empresas han realizado esfuerzos muy significativos por su internacionaliación cuetan con sedes en el exterior.» comenta Diego Gutierrez, experto en finanzas corporativas en ABRA INVEST.
Intel leads the ranking of companies sold
Intel is one of the top 3 most active investors in cyber security. Following the purchase of anti-virus company McFee in 2011, its investment arm has been very active with several sales in the cyber security sector in 2012. Among the latest cyber security exits from Intel Capital intelcapitalincludes the security company Credant Technologies (acquired by Dell), as well as Solera Networks adquirida por sistema Blue coat). Jafco Ventures, también ha experimentado salidas recientes, incluyendo 41st Parameter, startup de reconocimiento de dispositivos,adquirida por Experian, y las oficinas de propiedad intelectual de FireEye and Palo Alto Networks.
