Even though this year was unlike any other for cybersecurity—with more than $20 billion invested into the sector—2022 may very well build off that momentum, according to many in the industry.

While this year was driven to new heights by several sectors like cloud, API security, health care IT and insurance, next year should see a continuation of several of those trends, and some newer ones that started to emerge in the later half of 2021.

What will whet the appetite of investors in the new year? That’s always difficult to say, but these are subsectors and themes that seem primed to elevate their status as as venture dollars continue to flood the cybersecurity startup ecosystem:

-Crypto

-Compliance and auditing

-Securing the unknown