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AI Cybersecurity Funding Hits $14B as Breakout Time Drops to 27s

Three scientists face a chained cage with a glowing orange vortex and green lightning — AI cybersecurity threat visual. funding

most powerful models are becoming too risky to ship openly because of cybersecurity risks

cybersecurity startup funding grew 47% in 2025:

2024 - $9.5b
2025 - $14b (+47%)
2026 - $4.6b (Q1, 2x 2025)

and new niches are forming fast: ai agent security — $414m (one of the fastest-growing categories)

ai is finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in seconds. breakout time is down to 27 seconds. and the gap is growing.

build in cybersecurity.

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Addy Crezee

Founder, CEO & Editor-in-Chief at thehype. Addy is a serial entrepreneur building products and communities since 2014. In 2024, he founded /function1, one of the largest AI conferences in the world, scaling from 0 to 10k attendees in its first year.

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