August's cyber security vendor transaction highlights
- 22 total funding, M&A, and IPO transactions
- $439.5 Million raised over 14 rounds
- 7 M&A events
- 1 IPO
Crunching the Numbers
- The $439 Million raised in August 2025 represents a 51% decrease in funding raised when compared to August 2024.
- 14 funding rounds were tracked in August ’25 compared to 14 in August, ’24.
- Early-stage funding (Seed, Series-A) represents 60% of all August 2025 funding rounds recorded.
- One $230M round of funding was recorded accounting for 52% of all August funding dollars.
- YTD vendors raised $8 Billion, a 10% increase over the same period in 2024.
August's funding round breakdown
August's funding rounds and mergers & acquisitions
Funding
M&A
Funding
| Vendor | Activity Type | Financials | Lead Investor | Market Segment |
| Nebulock | Seed | $8,500,000 | Bain Capital | Threat Intel |
| Comp AI | Seed | $2,600,000 | OSS Capital | GRC |
| RunReveal | Seed | $7,000,000 | Costanoa Ventures | SIEM |
| WiseBee | Seed | $2,500,000 | Frontline Ventures | Automation |
| Archestra | Seed | $3,300,000 | Zero Prime Ventures | AI/LLM |
| Innerworks | Seed | $4,000,000 | AlbionVC | Fraud |
| Blueskytec | Funding | $2,000,000 | Maven Capital Partners | Firmware Security |
| Approov | Funding, A | $6,700,000 | Investment Funding for Scotland | API |
| Vendict | Funding, A | $10,000,000 | Moneta VC | GRC |
| Mitigata | Funding, A | $5,900,000 | Nexus Venture Partners | Cyber Insurance |
| 1Kosmos | Funding, B | $47,000,000 | Forgepoint Capital | Identity |
| IVIX | Funding, B | $60,000,000 | O.G. Venture Partners | OSINT |
| Seemplicity | Funding, B | $50,000,000 | Sienna Venture Capital | Automation |
| Ontic | Funding, C | $230,000,000 | KKR | OSINT |
M&A
| Vendor | Activity Type | Acquiring Company | Financials | Market Segment |
| Prompt Security | Acquisition | SentinelOne | Undisclosed | AI/LLM |
| Findings | Acquisition | Diginex | $305,000,000 | GRC |
| CyberCX | Acquisition | Accenture | $649,000,000 | Security Services |
| AuthenticID | Acquisition | Incode | Undisclosed | Fraud |
| Trag | Acquisition | Aikido Security | Undisclosed | AppSec |
| Axiom | Acquisition | Okta | $100,000,000 | Identity |
| Onum | Acquisition | CrowdStrike | $290,000,000 | Threat Intel |
| Netskope | IPO | N/A | Undisclosed | SASE |
Research Methodology
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