Swiss researchers, funded by Switzerland’s Cyber-Defence Campus, conducted a study revealing blockchain as the most lucrative investment in information security startups. The research, titled “Measuring the performance of investments in information security startups: An empirical analysis by cybersecurity sectors using Crunchbase data,” evaluated 19 sectors like AI and spam filtering. Notably, blockchain security startups outperformed AI, machine learning, and cloud sectors in returns. AI came in second with estimated annualized arithmetic returns of 67.25%. Unlike AI and tech sectors, which include non-security products, blockchain startups achieved the highest returns and quickest path to IPO in less than three and a half years. The study utilized Crunchbase data, leveraging a machine learning approach due to missing IPO entries. The interest in cryptocurrencies likely drove blockchain security startup success. The study focused on data from 2010 to 2022 and didn’t account for post-COVID transformations in blockchain and crypto industries. Read more AI-generated news on: https://app.chaingpt.org/news