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2007
Managing Partner
2007
YL Ventures (www.YLVentures.com) funds and supports visionary cybersecurity entrepreneurs from seed to scale to help them evolve transformative ideas into market-leading companies. The firm accelerates company growth with tailored support through its powerful network of Chief Information Security Officers, global industry leaders, and a dedicated team of multidisciplinary experts. With headquarters in Silicon Valley and Tel Aviv, YL Ventures manages five funds with $800M in total AUM. The firm has a track record of seeding cybersecurity unicorns such as Axonius and Orca Security, and its portfolio companies have been successfully acquired by high-profile, global industry leaders including Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft, Okta and Proofpoint. YL Ventures has been named one of America's Top Venture Capital Firms for 2025 by TIME. This acknowledgment follows the firm's inclusion in PitchBook's 2024 Global Manager Performance Score League Tables, where it was ranked #10 out of 350 global venture capital fund families, marking the third consecutive year YL Ventures has been named among the top 10 performing VC managers worldwide. YL Ventures is the only cybersecurity-focused VC in this global top tier.
2024
Seed Investor
2024
Hush Security (www.hush.security) set out to disrupt the traditional secret-based access model for machines by eliminating static secrets and replacing them with just-in-time, policy-based access. Led by industry veterans with decades of experience, Hush's mission is to bring true Zero Trust principles to machine-to-machine access. The company is backed by Battery Ventures and YL Ventures.
2022
Seed Investor
2022
Minimus (www.minimus.io) builds images from scratch, directly from upstream project sources, with only the minimal software needed to run the app, dramatically reducing their attack surface. Minimus images are drop-in replacements for the apps organizations are already using and are deployed with single line configuration file changes, providing nearly instant time to value. Minimus eliminates time consuming and low value remediation work for devs, is easy for ops to deploy and manage using their existing tools, and provides security with remarkably clear risk reduction. Minimus raised a $51M seed round from YL Ventures and Mayfield.
2023
Seed Investor
2023
MIND (mind.io) is on a mission to help organizations thrive in a digital world by protecting their most sensitive information. MIND is the first-ever data security platform that puts data loss prevention (DLP) and insider risk management (IRM) programs on autopilot to automatically protect sensitive information, mitigate risk and preserve brand reputation. We enable businesses to mind what really matters—their most sensitive data. Founded and led by cybersecurity leaders and industry veterans, MIND is based out of Seattle, WA.
2023
Seed Investor
2023
Miggo (miggo.io) is the first Application Detection and Response (ADR) platform, on a mission to stop application breaches. 80% of all cyber incidents take place in the application layer, however too many are being slipped by existing tools due to a blind spot to the actual application behavior. By using in-application runtime context, Miggo maps how applications actually operate in runtime, identifies high-risk application flows, pinpoints the weak spots, and provides real-time detection and response capabilities in the application layer.
2021
Seed Investor
2021
Grip Security (www.grip.security), the pioneer in SaaS security, brings the industry’s most comprehensive visibility across an enterprise’s entire SaaS portfolio – known or unknown for SaaS applications, users, and their interactions – with extreme accuracy and deployment in minutes. Armed with deep visibility, Grip’s enforceable endpoint-centric approach secures all SaaS application access regardless of device or location as well as maps data flows to apply security policies – including data loss prevention. Grip works as a standalone platform or complements any CASB deployment with nominal resourcing and no performance degradation so enterprises can get a grip on their SaaS security.
2019
Seed Investor
2019
Cycode (www.cycode.com), the industry’s first source code control, detection and response platform, utilizes its unique Source Path Intelligence engine to seamlessly deliver comprehensive visibility into all of an organization’s source code and automatically detect and respond to anomalies in access, movement and usage. With Cycode, organizations are “Secured to The Source”; their security teams can rapidly and dramatically reduce the risk of source code loss without impacting developer access or productivity.
2021
Seed Investor
2021
Valence (www.valencesecurity.com) is the first Business Application Mesh security company, focused on managing the risks from third-party integrations and securing app-to-app connectivity in the modern business environment. Valence’s platform applies zero trust principles to the Business Application Mesh, a complex network of applications interconnected by APIs and hyperautomation workflows, to deliver comprehensive visibility into the risk surface, reducing unauthorized access and preventing critical data loss. With Valence, organizations get a clear view of the Business Application Mesh and a clear path to control, govern and secure it.
2019
Seed Investor
2019
Orca Security (www.orca.security) is the Cloud Visibility Company. The Orca Cloud Visibility Platform utilizes its unique SideScanning™ technology to seamlessly deliver comprehensive full-stack visibility into all of your entire cloud infrastructure and assets in a fraction of the time and cost of alternative approaches. Orca gives IT security teams the power to enable “Security at the Speed of the Cloud.”
2018
Seed Investor
2018
Hunters.AI (www.hunters.ai) is the industry’s first Autonomous Hunting solution. Hunters combines its unique Attack Intelligence, Hunting AI and Continuous Automation with the enterprise’s existing security data to transform enterprise threat hunting from hunt and hope to hunting that works. Hunters.AI generates and delivers actionable visualized attack stories allowing organizations to more quickly and effectively identify, understand and respond to attacks.