Blockchain, the distributed ledger technology underpinning Bitcoin is one of those closely watched sectors among the VC community, which has continued to grab investor interest. The sector has witnessed a total of $2.5B being invested across just 124 deals. RRE Ventures and Digital Currency Group have been the most active investors in blockchain. The following infograph takes a look at the top investors in blockchain, along with their portfolio.

2015 saw the drastic rise in both the number of deals and the amount invested in logistics tech with number of deals going to 250 in 2015 from 142 in 2014 while over $5B was invested in 2015 compared to just over $1.2B in 2014. And we have seen the momentum continuing in 2016 as well with over $2.2B being invested already.

With so much funding going into the space, we looked at the most funded business models of the space. The entire logistics tech space is majorly divided into 4 major cuts which are parcel, warehousing, freight and e-commerce which are sub-categorized into various business models. Here is the list of business models under each major category along with top 3 most funded companies in the business model.

Of late, technological advancements are slowly and steadily disrupting the world of finance. With growing smartphone adoption, people can now make payments, invest, manage their expenses online, which was traditionally done through brick and mortar banks. Recently, we have seen interesting business models in this space, with startups providing services like mobile crowdfunding, insurance solutions for the sharing economy, and digital wealth management, to name a few. Here is a look at some of the most interesting startups in the FinTech space, based out of EU’s financial capital.

Alibaba, China’s largest e-commerce company made its first acquisition in 1994 – a media company named China Vision for $804M, which was later renamed to Alibaba Pictures. Interestingly, of its total portfolio of 20 companies, 12 companies were acquired post 2005, with the last acquisition coming in the year 2012.

With a market cap of just over $190B, Alibaba has acquired companies in media, enterprise storage, analytics, and auction management, among others. Sixteen out of the 20 acquisitions were made locally, followed by three in US and one in South East Asia.

Data on exits shows that Alibaba was an investor in four out of the 20 companies that it acquired, followed by Sequoia and Matrix which had two exits each.

Let’s take a look at the acquisitions by Alibaba.

In the biggest ever purchase of a mobile games maker, China’s Tencent Holdings is buying a majority stake in Finnish game developer Supercell, maker of hit mobile game Clash of Clans from SoftBank Group for $8.6B. Tencent, a major investor and player in the areas of communication, information, entertainment, e-commerce, makes a significant portion of its revenue from the sale of virtual goods in MMOs, instant messengers, and social networking sites. In light of its latest purchase the biggest ever for Tencent, we’ve listed notable investments and acquisitions in gaming made by China’s biggest gaming group.

Tencent’s Acquisitions in Gaming

Supercell’s acquisition is the largest acquisition made by Tencent in gaming, eclipsing its acquisition of Riot Games in 2015. Four of Tencent’s game acquisitions were made overseas – two in Europe, and two in the USA.    

Tencent’s Investments in Gaming
Tencent has made prolific investments in developers of mobile games, social games, VR and eSports. Ten of Tencent’s investments in gaming have had exits – nine companies including Riot Games were acquired. Shenzhen-based iDreamSky managed an exit through an IPO in 2014.

Also check out our infograph, which analyses Alibaba’s acquisition strategy.

Every week, we at Tracxn curate some of the most interesting blogs and articles from the VC community. Here is a compilation of them that you can add to your reading list.

The Increasing Cost of Consumer Startups
by Ezra Galston

“Here’s the punchline: the low tech, low cost, low hanging fruit of the digital (and subsequently, mobile) era – digitizing or mobilizing offline to online processes – are coming to an end. And until the next great platform or behavioral shift, the costs of innovation will be material higher. As we used to say in my card playing days, “the price of poker just went up.”

Ezra Galston, VC at Chicago Ventures samples a few posts on the end of the app boom, and the era of lean startups, to advance his thesis on why there’s no more space for low-cost, highly scalable startups – with established winners already in place in areas like media, messaging, advertising, and games. The next big opportunities in tech – self-driving cars, on-demand services, VR, bots, and drones are hugely expensive bets, beyond the league of Micro VCs.

Read Galston’s blog on why cash efficient, asset-light opportunities across consumer sectors appear less frequent here.

Physical Retail in Trouble as Shoppers Continue to Move Online by Nic Brisbourne

“The number of shoppers is declining and prices are under constant pressure and that will leave an increasing number of shops unable to generate sufficient sales to cover their fixed costs.”

Nic Brisbourne, Managing Partner, Forward Partners, examines data on the shrinking base of non-food physical retail establishments, in what is likely to be an accelerating trend. In the long term, he sees forward looking retail companies dominating retail through ‘clicks-and-mortar models’.

Read Brisbourne’s post on a permanent decline in retail footfall here.

The Tech Alimentary Canal Is Full by Jeffrey Carter

“If you build a great company, the exit sort of takes care of itself. If you find yourself forcing an exit, usually you are doing it at a price you don’t want to exit at. Building a company for a flip is never a good idea.”

Jeffrey Carter, an angel investor and independent trader weights in on the opinions of Marc Andreessen and Steve Case on the future of the tech startup ecosystem, and the fate of unicorns. He ends the blog with some first principles thinking on exits.

Read Carter’s advice for startups here.

Why Virtual Reality Will Be the Most Social Computing Platform Yet by Kyle Russell

“Looking at previous generations of computing platforms like the web or mobile, social networks have always proven to be one of the strongest drivers of adoption and engagement, making the underlying platforms vastly more valuable.”

Kyle Russell, Deal Partner at Andreessen Horowitz imagines how why social experiences will play out on VR platforms, and looks at examples of companies creating virtual spaces. He emphasizes the need to think about virtual (and augmented) reality as a computing platform, rather than as a PC peripheral for gaming.

Read Kyle Russell’s thoughts on what will make social VR work here.

Some of Our Favorite Investment Themes Right Now: AI and Machine Learning by Boris Wertz

“Everybody has probably heard about Cruise and GM by now, but there is much more potential in this space.”

Boris Wertz, General Partner at Version One Ventures discloses AI and machine learning investment themes the firm is actively investing in. He shares use cases and investments in areas such as autonomous vehicles and drones, cloud-controlled robots, automating enterprise processes, and data analysis for large verticals.

Read Wertz’s blog on AI and machine learning investment themes here.

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Recent multi-billion dollar funding announcements of Uber, followed by an even bigger round of Didi Chuxing, has put all the rumours about funding winter to rest. 2016 seems to be carrying the momentum which 2015 had; we have already seen some huge rounds of funding in 2016. Here is a list of 50 biggest rounds of funding of the year so far.

As 2016 draws close to the half yearly mark, we take a close look at which Indian cities have been able to grab the most notable rounds, in a funding environment that appears to be more measured and cautious, compared to the exuberance of 2015.

Delhi NCR region accounts for more than half the funding pie in 2016 so far

Indian startups raised a total of $1.8 billion in the first 6 months of 2016, of which more than half the amount was pumped into the Delhi NCR region. The infographic below lists a detailed view of the top five startup cities of India.

The top startup cities not only accounted for highest number of deals, but also managed to grab a large average ticket size. Delhi NCR accounted for the highest overall funding, and leads the list in terms of ticket size, with an average ticket size of $5.8M. The table below is representative of the large average ticket size, with all the top 20 rounds of 2016 coming from one of the top five startup cities.

Ahmedabad, Chennai and Jaipur are the new kids on the block
The startup capital Bangalore has been an all time favourite for investors, due to the easily available tech talent in the city, but cities like Ahmedabad, Chennai and Jaipur are becoming startups hubs too, accounting for 30 deals in 2016, with a total funding amount of $34M. Below is the investment split across the emerging startup cities of India.

Bangalore bagged 96 Angel & Seed stage rounds in 2016
The Delhi NCR region takes the lead with the most number of rounds across all the funding stages, followed by Bangalore and Mumbai. While Ahmedabad, Chennai and Jaipur are becoming startup hubs, they are not securing late stage rounds, which is evident from the table below. The only notable late stage rounds this year from the upcoming cities were that of Stayzilla in Chennai and CarDekho in Jaipur. Below is a look at the funding by stage in 2016.

Albert Wenger on the next big thing

In a 22-minute talk at the Gel Conference, Albert Wenger, Partner, Union Square Ventures shares his views on macro issues driving technology and society, like declining costs of computing, zero margin costs of digital technologies, and the shifting of scarcity from food and capital to attention.

3D GoPro camera lens kit now available for pre-orders
This VR startup is crowdfunding a hardware add-on that turns a GoPro into a 3D camera, using mirrors to create two different images for your left and right eyes.

Drone startup delivers drugs from ship to shore
Flirty, a US-based drone startup made the first domestic “ship to shore” drone delivery, delivering medical supplies and samples from a barge to an onshore medical camp.

Twilio opens for trading on the NYSE
Twilio, which provides a communications API for telephony infrastructure web service in the cloud is the first tech startup in the US to go public this year. The video captures the spirit of the stock NYSE exchange, where the company held a code jam on the trading floor.

Airobotics unveils automated drone platform for industries
Israel-based UAV manufacturer Airobotics recently raised $28M in a Series B round is pursuing an autonomous drone platform that can be operated 24×7, and will be managed entirely by a robotic battery-swapping platform. The company said that such a system would be best suited for industries such as mining, oil & gas, seaports, and other industrial facilities.

Every week, we at Tracxn curate some of the most interesting blogs and articles from the VC community. Here is a compilation of them that you can add to your reading list.

Why Raising Too Much Money Can Harm Your Startup by Mark Suster

“What felt great when you raised it $5 million on $20 million now feels like a noose around your neck because raising at an up-round of $8–10 million at a $40–50 million pre-money valuation is stratospherically harder than raising at a $20 million valuation.”

Mark Suster, Partner, Upfront Ventures shares his point of view on why capital constraints can act as a positive force for both investor and founder. In the blog, he runs the calculations and weighs the risks of raising a high valuation round.

Read Suster’s blog on how much money entrepreneurs should raise here.

The State of Enterprise Software by Jerry Chen

“We can’t predict what future valuations will look like but we can say with confidence that we won’t be returning to 2015 values for quite some time. What does this mean for enterprise startups?”

Jerry Chen, Partner at Greylock VC shares his presentation on the current funding climate and how it influences Enterprise Software, with slides analysing valutions, IPOs, and deals made by quarter in the sector. While deal volume is decreasing, he says there’s still an appetite for great companies, which build competitive moats, use cash strategically, and execute an effective go-to-market business model.

Read Chen’s advice and progrnosis of the startup climate for 2016 here.

Some Thoughts on Brexit by Fred Wilson

“A static world is not a good world. And, as I said, with change comes opportunity.”

Fred Wilson, Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures gives a sanity check during all the frenzied panic around Brexit, sharing advice at a time of upheaval for startups. He points out the fact that some of the best companies have been created in times of great economic turmoil.

Read Wilson’s thoughts on Brexit here.

VC Cold Email Outreach: “The Only Winning Move is Not to Play” by Manu Kumar

“No matter how flattering the email, just remember that in 99 out of 100 such emails are a complete and utter waste of your time. And you will likely only receive 20 at most, so loosely statistically speaking, you shouldn’t waste your time on any of these!”

Manu Kumar, founder of K9 Ventures, an early stage venture fund calls out VCs for a huge time suck that his portfolio companies have faced while engaging with VCs who are just collecting market intelligence or doing competitive diligence. The blog explains how a founder or investor should manouver through this situation.

Read Kumar’s post on the best way to respond to a VC cold mail here.

Don’t Fake It by Jeffrey Carter

“If it’s just about the money, don’t do a startup. If it’s just about the money, don’t invest in a startup.”

Jeffrey Carter, an angel investor and independent trader shares his thoughts on the recent controversies surrounding Lending Club, and the debacles of Theranos and Zenefits. He shares his thoughts on why he detests the adage ‘Fake it till you make it’, and draws a line between scrappiness, an essential quality for any early startup, and faking it.

Read Carter’s post on why Lending Club’s demise reflects poorly on the tech industry here.

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A compilation of the most interesting videos highlighting news and tech innovations from around the world.  

Pollen Introduces Pam, The Advanced 3D Printer

Pam is a sophisticated multi-material 3D printer from Pollen. You could use Pam for complex prototyping, fashion shows, translucent lamps, etc. You could print something solid, something flexible, something soft

Quantum Computing: A Primer

a16z Deal and Research team head Frank Chen walks us through the basics of quantum computing in this slide presentation. And even though may feel like you finally understand after watching this, just remember what Feynman once said: “If you think you understand quantum mechanics then you don’t understand quantum mechanics.”

This company will help you become a Cyborg

A device that allows people to “sense” North is the first offering from new company Cyborg Nest. 

Boston Dynamics introduces Spot Mini

SpotMini is a new smaller version of the Spot robot, weighing 55 lbs dripping wet (65 lbs if you include its arm.) SpotMini is all-electric (no hydraulics) and runs for about 90 minutes on a charge, depending on what it is doing.

How VR Can Help Executive Rehearse For Big Moments

VR as a mental rehearsal tool is not one that is still widely known. Becoming the first to use it could result in great success.

With his mindblowing quotes and track record of incredible achievements, Elon Musk continues to inspire entrepreneurs around the world. Few people on this planet embody the entrepreneurial virtues of genius, tenacity, and first principles thinking as much as this South African born Canadian-American business magnate. His ventures have disrupted finance, the automotive industry, space, energy, and he’s also working on Hyperloop, a new mode of transportation that will be capable of top speeds of 760mph. He’s played a leadership role at Paypal, SpaceX, Tesla Motors, and Solar City, and has accomplished more than most do in a lifetime at just 45. Musk’s life goals are to reduce global warming through sustainable energy production and use, making humanity a multi-planetary civilization. This infograph captures some of his quotes and accomplishments, as we recap the life and times of the billionaire genius.

The global demand for meat and meat-based products continues to grow, leading to increased land and water usage, and a heavy environmental impact that’s only going to get worse as the world’s population surges to 9 billion by 2050. A number of VC-backed companies are catering to consumers who want cruelty-free and environmentally friendly produce – by substituting the use of animals and livestock. These startups use biotechnology to manufacture protein-rich vegetarian meat, lab-grown leather and silk, non-dairy cheese. Khosla Impact, and Horizons Ventures are the most active in this space, even KPCB and Sequoia Capital have also made investments. Bill Gates is an outspoken proponent of lab grown meat, who has written essays trying to convince consumers to make the cultural shift to lab-grown meat, and 3D printed beef. These startups fit well with the values of vegans, environmentalists, and animal rights activists, and also give a glimpse into the future of food, and some of the largest technology-driven bets in the space.

Silicon Valley has served as rich fodder worth ruminating on for the entertainment industry. In recent news, a major Hollywood studio is going to make a movie on Elizabeth Holmes, founder of embattled blood diagnostics startup Theranos, who will be played by Jennifer Lawrence. While we haven’t seen the script, it’s quite likely that it won’t be a flattering account. As a thought experiment, we’ve come up with eight real-world accounts of individuals and tech companies that deserve to be told in a biopic.

1) Andrew S Grove – Immigrant to Legendary Entrepreneur
A lot of Silicon Valley culture owes itself to the outsized footprint of the life of the late Andrew S Grove, who emigrated to the US from communist-controlled Hungary, barely capable of speaking English. He went on to get a PhD from UC Berkeley, and then built one of the leading technologies of his era. Intel successfully pivoted from manufacturing memory chips to microprocessors during his reign as co-founder and former CEO of Intel Corporation. He also wrote a book titled High Output Management, which is highly acclaimed by entrepreneurs.

2) Thuan Pham – A Refugee Who Overcame All Odds
Before becoming a CTO of Uber, Vietnam-born Thuan Pham saw a life of extreme adversity and hunger as a refugee from a war-ravaged country. In 1979, 10 year-old Thuan Pham left with his mother and younger brother on a crammed refugee boat from Vietnam, to Malaysia, and then to Indonesia. In his own words, they had a 50 percent chance of survival, and were pirated twice during their journey. A TechInAsia feature captures Pham’s account. Miraculously, the post was seen by the captain of the refugee boat, who shared his experiences in the comments section.

3) Jack Dorsey – The Dilettante Entrepreneur Who Hit Two Home Runs
Dorsey was sacked from Twitter, the company he helped create, for spending too much time on other interests, like yoga and fashion. He was eventually brought back as CEO after the departure of Dick Costolo. He’s also the CEO of point of sale payments device Square, which went public in late 2015. While not as imposing as Facebook, Twitter is used by millions of people the world over, and is quite likely to be there with us in the future. Considering its outsized cultural footprint – there should be plenty of material for a screenplay.

4) Elon Musk – The Man Iron Man Was Modeled On
Elon Musk’s hopes for humanity are far grander in scale than average tech entrepreneurs – his companies are trying to solve some of the hardest problems – like sustainable transportation that doesn’t depend on fossil fuels, and establishing a human outpost in Mars. He’s the prototypical eccentric genius – Tony Stark in Iron Man was actually modeled after him. He’s bounced back from from near death experiences and umpteen failures. The first 45 years of his life have enough ups and downs and drama for a screenplay, or two.

5) Jack Ma – From KFC Reject to Billionaire CEO
One of the most respected entrepreneurs from China, and wealthiest people in the world, Jack Ma’s life makes an inspirational story. He came from humble origins and weathered umpteen rejections. He was rejected by Harvard ten times, but was eventually invited to lecture at the university, after he created one of the most valuable tech companies in the world. A documentary titled Crocodile In The Yangtze, released in 2012, provides a vivid portrait of the man, with camera footage spanning 14 years.

6) Travis Kalanick – Bringing Transportation on Tap
One of the highest valued and fastest growing tech companies, Uber’s narrative will largely depend on its eventual exit. That said, Uber is a chief example of an authentically mobile app experience – one that has had an outsized impact on society. A poster-child for the sharing economy, it has transformed values around car ownership. It’s doubtful whether Kalanick’s life story make for a hit at the box office, it’s quite likely that moviegoers will take an Uber to get there.

7) Larry Ellison – A Rags to Riches Story
One of the richest self-made billionaires in the world, he’s deserving of a biopic considering he’s an orphan and a two-time university dropout, who went on to create one of the highest revenue generating software companies of his time as Oracle’s co-founder. He also likes to live large – he owns an island in Hawaii, and is famous for trashtalking his competitors and for his passion for yacht racing.

8) Larry Page – His 10 Lost Years at Google
From a scrappy startup to an an unstoppable juggernaut in the world of tech, the Stanford duo Larry Page and Sergei Brin invented PageRank, which made web searches 10x better, and set the ball rolling for a tech behemoth. But it wasn’t a fairy tale ending for Page, who was replaced as CEO by Eric Schmidt in 2001. A Business Insider feature touches upon some of the management mistakes made by the co-founder during his time in the wilderness, and the lessons learned by him.

5 Movies On Entrepreneurship Everyone Needs To See

1) Pirates of The Silicon Valley (1999)
This TV movie starring Noah Wyle as Steve Jobs and Anthony Michael Hall as Bill Gates is one of the best portrayals of the fierce competition between the founders of Apple and Microsoft during the PC era.

2) The Social Network (2011)
A dramatised account of Facebook’s early years, it tells the story of Mark Zuckerberg during his days at Harvard, the startup’s growing pains and friendships ruined in the process of scaling into a company.

3) Steve Jobs (2015)
Aaron Sorkin’s portrayal on Steve Jobs is the most critically acclaimed accounts, which is set in the 1994-1998 era – where he released the Apple Macintosh, the NeXT Computer and the iMac.

4) Flash of Genius [2008]
Based on a true story of American inventor Robert Kearns, who fought a legal battle with Ford Motors after the latter used his patented invention of a windshield wiper blade modeled on the human eye.

5) Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
A biographical drama on the entrepreneurial struggles of automobile designer and entrepreneur Preston Tucker, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The movie chronicles the battles the entrepreneur had to face while introducing the Tucker Sedan in 1948, which introduced many new features that were unavailable at the time.

Dear POTUS,

Hope this blog finds you well. We write to you with much excitement, in anticipation of your potential career as a VC. The topic was discussed in a recent interview, where you expressed hopes about bringing together your interests in science and healthcare. It seems like a great idea, which has been positively received by VCs quoted in the media. The sheer number of inbound requests and the access you bring to any fund has us very enthusiastic about the possibilities.

To help you get started, our analysts at Tracxn have been working all week to present you a shortlist of 15 potential winners in the areas of your interest — healthcare IT, medical devices, diagnostics, biopharma, and consumer health. We chose these startups because they have a great founding team, excellent growth metrics, are likely to have a significant social impact, by providing low-cost innovations, or through use cases that didn’t exist before. We’ve also included a few government tech startups, which can help improve transparency and efficiency of government functioning, and enhance the decision making of public agencies during disasters.

Now read: With Obama Exploring a Career in VC, Here Are 10 More People on Our WishList

Dear Jason,

Hope you’re doing well, and a belated congratulations on closing $70 million on the Saastr fund! We follow your blog as closely as any other SaaS startup, and are glad that your domain expertise and insights will help founders build high growth startups in the SaaS space.

An interview discussing your fund strategy says that you will be focusing only on companies from the SaaStr community. However, given the excitement around your fund, we couldn’t help come up with a list of highly investable SaaS startups. Our list includes around 2-5 startup picks in the areas of Sales Force Automation, RealEstate Tech, marketing and PR tech, Logistics, Legal, HR, Health, Investment and Govt Tech. We’ve also advised these startups to subscribe to your blog, since that seems to be a prerequisite. We’re hoping our attempts at matchmaking yield a positive outcome for everyone involved.

Here’s the list of 50 SaaS companies in a spreadsheet.

Yours Truly,
Tracxn Team

Every week, we at Tracxn curate some of the most interesting blogs and articles from the VC community. Here is a compilation of them that you can add to your reading list.

Why Startup Technical Diligence is a Waste of Time by Leo Polovets

“A well-built product that doesn’t solve a problem will always be inferior to an ugly, buggy product that addresses a burning need.”

Leo Polovets, Partner at Susa Ventures shares a viewpoint, drawn from his own personal experiences on why technical diligence is a waste of time. He contends that very few companies such as SpaceX, and Zoox bear a significant technical risk, while most consumer apps or SaaS tools have a low technical risk.

Read Leo’s post on why technical diligence is pointless here.

Is social dead? by Angela Tran Kingyens

“It’s difficult to convince someone to leave their 300+ friends on Facebook and start over on a brand new platform. It’s this moat that makes network effect companies so attractive to investors and entrepreneurs.”

Angela Tran Kingyens, Investor at Version One Ventures contends that we’ve hit peak social platforms, with strong network effects making it hard to unseat the incumbents. The post looks at how for companies can ride out the last vestiges of the original social wave through vertical niches though examples like Slack, Twitch, and Figure 1, or latch on to a new wave of Messaging-as-a-Platform companies like WeChat.

Read Angela’s post on opportunities in social networking here.

AR will be startup dominated, VR will not by Jerry Neumann

“I don’t believe virtual reality is a good area to venture invest. I do believe augmented reality is a good place to venture invest. There is a key distinction between the two in terms of the chokepoints in the value chain.”

With all the buzz surrounding Pokemon Go, Jerry Neumann, early stage investor at Neu Venture Capital predicts that augmented reality is a more investable area, compared to virtual reality. He analyses mediums like radio, TV and the internet; who held the chokepoints in the value chain, and forecasts the future for VR and AR content.

Read Neumann’s blog on whether VR and AR technologies will be dominated by startups here.

The Blockchain Expands, But It’s in Asia by Jeffrey Carter

“I am not sure you can ever “control” or “win” the blockchain. But, I think the economies that embrace it and maximize it will have a leg up on economies that fight it.”

Jeffrey Carter, an angel investor and independent trader writes about the growing enthusiasm for blockchain and cryptocurrency in Asia, with examples of tech companies who are getting into the blockchain business in China and Singapore.

Read Carter’s post on blockchain adoption in Asia here.

The NYC Tech Ecosystem: Catching Up to the Hype by Matt Turck

“New York is in the process of catching up to the hype. That doesn’t make for splashy headlines, and takes a long time, but the reality of the NYC tech ecosystem coming of age is actually happening right now.”

Matt Turck, Managing Director of FirstMark Capital writes a long post on NYC’s tech startup ecosystem, analyzing its history, strengths, past exits, and compares it to the Bay Area tech ecosystem.

Read Matt’s post on New York’s startup ecosystem here.

As the founder of a high-growth startup, you’ve spent months in your office getting your beta up, and the efforts have just borne fruit. You’ve just got Techcrunched, and all manner of Valley influencers, from VCs to Fortune 500 execs have signed up to your service to see what the fuss is all about. Good times. Before you call for the next round shots at the nearest watering hole, we recommend exploring this list of 25 companies from the enterprise security space, which can help you in preventing your startup’s data from being compromised, and landing your fledgling venture in a soup.

As recent hacks against Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai show, securing your enterprise against attacks from hackers can no longer be an afterthought. The following list of security focused startups covers several methods to boost the security of your website against hackers. It covers both bootstrapped and well funded vendors providing software and solutions for biometric security, identity verification, multi-factor authentication, password managers, and data security software.