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It’s at all times onerous to understand how a startup class will fare in a downturn. However when you had requested me just a few months in the past, I’d have anticipated cybersecurity to be comparatively recession-proof, identical to knowledge observability. What I didn’t have in my playing cards but, although, was generative AI and animal agriculture. — Anna

A tricky H1

Numbers are out on funding into cybersecurity final quarter, and they don’t seem to be good, to a shocking extent. In response to Crunchbase, cybersecurity startups solely raised $1.6 billion in enterprise funding within the second quarter of the yr.

Not solely does this characterize a 63% quarter-on-quarter decline, however that is additionally the bottom quantity this sector raised in any given quarter since This autumn 2019.