Sell-Side M&A
Full process ownership when shareholders sell a cybersecurity company, from positioning and buyer mapping to negotiation and closing, with buyer sequencing designed to create competitive tension.
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Cybersecurity Investment Banking
CyberTrust Ventures provides specialist cybersecurity investment banking for founder-led, venture-backed and PE-backed security companies. We advise on selling the company, acquiring other businesses, raising capital and building strategic partnerships, with senior bankers leading every mandate from the first conversation to closing.
Rooted in Israel’s cyber ecosystem and connected to buyers and investors in the United States and Europe, we bring the sector depth that high-stakes cyber transactions demand.
Our Cyber Investment Banking Services
One team covers the full range of strategic transactions a cybersecurity company faces. Each mandate is scoped to the outcome shareholders actually want.
Buy-Side M&A
Target screening, thesis validation, valuation and structuring for acquirers building or extending a security platform through disciplined, thesis-driven acquisitions.
Buy-side M&A advisoryCapital Raising & Structuring
Advice on growth rounds, strategic investment, recapitalizations and debt financing, with an equity story and investor targeting built around how security investors underwrite risk.
Strategic Partnerships
OEM, white-label, reseller and technology licensing agreements that expand distribution, validate the technology and often become the first step toward a strategic transaction.
Strategic Alternatives
Independent evaluation of carve-outs, mergers, partial sales and recapitalizations when a standard sale process is not the highest-value route for shareholders.
Technology Due Diligence
Deep technical assessment of products and IP portfolios, so strengths are documented before buyers look and weaknesses are fixed or framed before they cost value.
Preparing for due diligenceWho We Advise
Our clients are the people accountable for a cybersecurity company’s most important decisions. Engagements prioritize execution quality, buyer fit and transaction certainty over process volume.
- Founders and CEOs of cybersecurity companies weighing a sale, a merger or a strategic partnership
- Boards and investors of venture-backed security companies planning an exit or recapitalization
- PE-backed cybersecurity platforms pursuing add-on acquisitions or preparing for their own exit
- Strategic acquirers looking for cybersecurity targets, particularly in Israel
- Israeli cyber companies selling to, or partnering with, US and European buyers
Cybersecurity Sectors We Cover
We follow the categories where strategic buyers are consolidating and where security investors are most active.
- Identity and access management
- Cloud security, CNAPP and posture management
- Application, API and software supply chain security
- Data security and privacy
- Security operations, detection and response
- Network, email and browser security
- Exposure management and attack surface
- OT, IoT and critical infrastructure security
- AI security and AI-enabled defense
- Managed security services (MSSP and MDR)
How a Cybersecurity Investment Banking Process Works
A structured sale process typically runs six to nine months from preparation to closing. Timing depends on how ready the company is, the type of buyer and the depth of diligence.
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Preparation and positioning
We build the equity story, financial model and data room, and translate technical differentiation into the strategic value a buyer or investor will pay for. Diligence gaps are identified and closed before anyone outside the company looks.
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Buyer and investor universe
We map strategic acquirers, private equity sponsors and strategic investors, test each one against the thesis, and identify the people who actually make decisions. Outreach is sequenced to protect confidentiality and build momentum.
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Marketing and first-round bids
Confidential outreach under NDA, management presentations and early indications of interest. We manage information flow so every party sees the right material at the right time.
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Diligence and negotiation
We run technical, financial and legal diligence and negotiate the full package, not just the headline price: cash versus stock, earn-outs, escrow and holdbacks, retention and closing conditions.
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Signing and closing
We coordinate counsel, approvals and closing mechanics through to completion, and help plan the transition that protects value after signing.
What Drives Value in a Cybersecurity Transaction
Buyers and investors in cybersecurity look past the pitch deck. These are the factors that move valuation, and the ones we help clients prepare long before a process starts.
Strategic fit with a buyer’s platform
The highest valuations go to companies that fill a specific gap in an acquirer’s platform or roadmap. Identifying that gap, buyer by buyer, is the core of our work.
Revenue quality
Recurring revenue, growth, net revenue retention and gross margin are the first numbers any buyer or investor asks for. They need to be clean, consistent and defensible.
Proven technical differentiation
Security buyers test efficacy claims. Customer evidence, architecture that scales and a credible roadmap turn technology into valuation.
Team and retention
Security R&D talent is scarce. Buyers pay for teams that stay, so retention planning is part of the deal design from day one.
Why Work With a Specialist Cybersecurity Investment Bank
We speak the buyer’s language. Security acquirers evaluate products the way their CISOs and architects would. Our team combines former Unit 8200 officers with seasoned investment bankers, so the technology story holds up in front of a buyer’s engineers as well as its corporate development team.
We know who is buying, and why. Cybersecurity M&A is driven by platform strategies. We track which acquirers are filling which gaps and maintain relationships with more than 150 VC and PE funds and over 50 strategic partners.
Senior attention on every mandate. We focus exclusively on C-level advisory with a bespoke, high-touch approach. Partners stay hands-on from preparation through closing.
Cross-border by design. Headquartered in Tel Aviv with deep networks in New York and Silicon Valley, we run processes that bridge Israeli innovation and global capital.
Cybersecurity Investment Banking FAQ
What does a cybersecurity investment bank do?
A cybersecurity investment bank advises security companies and their shareholders on strategic transactions: selling the company, acquiring other businesses, raising capital or forming strategic partnerships. The banker prepares the positioning, identifies and approaches the right buyers or investors, runs a competitive and confidential process, and negotiates terms through closing.
How is a specialist cybersecurity investment bank different from a generalist bank?
A specialist knows which strategic acquirers are building which security platforms, how security buyers evaluate technology, and how to translate technical differentiation into valuation. That sector knowledge improves buyer targeting, shortens the process and protects leverage in negotiation.
Which cybersecurity companies does CyberTrust Ventures advise?
We advise founder-led, venture-backed and PE-backed cybersecurity companies across identity, cloud security, application security, data security, security operations, exposure management, OT security and AI security, with a particular depth in Israeli cyber companies selling to US and European buyers.
Do you advise on cross-border cybersecurity transactions?
Yes. Cross-border execution is core to our model, especially transactions between Israeli cybersecurity companies and strategic or financial buyers in the United States and Europe.
When should we engage a cybersecurity investment banker?
Ideally six to twelve months before you want to transact. Early engagement leaves time to prepare financials and diligence materials, sharpen positioning and build buyer relationships before a formal process begins. If you have received an unsolicited offer, speak to an advisor before responding in detail.
How do we start a confidential discussion?
Email [email protected] with a short company profile, your strategic objective and your timing. Every inquiry is handled in strict confidence by a senior member of the team.
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Start a Confidential Conversation
Tell us about your company, your objective and your timing. A senior member of the team will respond personally, in strict confidence.