Monday, 22 August 2016

Jonathan Aberman: The one void that could slow our cybersecurity dreams

More and more people agree: cybersecurity is in our region’s DNA and can continue to be a boom for greater Washington.

But venture capital is pivotal in providing the accelerant for rapid growth of technology companies, and it I fear that the lack of sufficient risk capital is strangling some promising startups.

Overall, the greater Washington region is the eighth-largest venture capital market in the country. For 2015, approximately $1.4 billion of venture capital was invested here.

This capital was provided by 351 investment firms and of those, 252 were from outside of our region — with the remaining 45 indigenous to our market, according to Pitchbook, a well-respected source of market data. For the full article click here 



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