650 Million USD: What VCs Invested In Security Startups In 2012

We had spotted the top five industries from a VC investment standpoint - we spotted this stat today, that VCs invested some 650 million usds in 2012, in security startups alone. (Source)

How do we digest this number? Let us try this: VCs invested a total of some 26.5 billion dollars in startups in 2012. So 1 in 40 VC dollars went into security startups.