YL Ventures

YL Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2007, with offices in Silicon Valley and Tel Aviv. The firm focuses exclusively on investing in cybersecurity, supporting Israeli tech entrepreneurs from seed stage to growth. With over $300 million under management, YL Ventures is dedicated to accelerating the development of its portfolio companies through strategic guidance and operational execution in the U.S. The firm leverages an extensive network of Chief Information Security Officers and industry leaders to enhance its investments. YL Ventures has a notable track record, marked by successful acquisitions of its portfolio companies by major corporations, showcasing its commitment to fostering innovation within the cybersecurity landscape.

Gili Berkovitz

Associate

John Brennan

Partner

Kate Burkhardt

Associate

Michael Cortez

Partner

Yoav Andrew Leitersdorf

Founder and Managing Partner

Rotem Lurie

Senior Associate

Kirk Manoogian

Principal

Dave Reed

CFO

David Reed

CFO

Iren Reznikov

Principal

Ofer Schreiber

Partner and Head of Israel Office

Past deals in Network Security

Minimus

Seed Round in 2025
The Minimus platform may assist businesses in achieving an instant reduction in vulnerability exposure with just one modification to deployment configurations, greatly speeding up the remaining remediation efforts.

Miggo Security

Series A in 2025
Miggo Security is the Application Detection and Response (ADR) platform with a mission to prevent application breaches.

Miggo Security

Seed Round in 2024
Miggo Security is the Application Detection and Response (ADR) platform with a mission to prevent application breaches.

Aim Security

Seed Round in 2024
Aim Security focuses on delivering comprehensive security solutions tailored for enterprises integrating generative artificial intelligence (AI). The company has developed a platform that addresses the specific security challenges associated with AI, such as data exposure, supply chain vulnerabilities, and the risk of malicious outputs. This platform provides essential guidance for secure AI adoption, allowing security leaders to enhance business productivity while implementing necessary safeguards. By establishing protective measures, Aim Security enables organizations to maximize the benefits of generative AI technology while maintaining a strong security posture, whether for internal operations or production applications.

Gutsy

Seed Round in 2023
Gutsy enables you to look at security not as individual settings and detections, but as interconnected systems and events that deliver outcomes. You don't just see the results, you see how you got them and why. Gutsy connects to all the systems you're already using, continuously mines data about every process execution, and automatically correlates activities across complex security workflows.

Grip Security

Series B in 2023
Grip Security specializes in providing comprehensive visibility and security for enterprise SaaS applications, whether known or unknown. The company offers a security application that enforces security policies and prevents data loss across the entire SaaS portfolio. Grip's solution, known as the SaaS Security Control Plane (SSCP), delivers extreme accuracy in monitoring applications, users, and their interactions, significantly reducing false positives. This innovative approach allows organizations to modernize their security architecture and adopt a business-led IT strategy while maintaining a secure environment. By enabling deep visibility into all enterprise applications, Grip Security helps clients establish a secure network within their workspaces.

Hunters

Series C in 2022
Hunters SOC Platform empowers security teams to automatically identify and respond to incidents that matter, helping teams mitigate real threats faster and more reliably than SIEM.

Grip Security

Series A in 2021
Grip Security specializes in providing comprehensive visibility and security for enterprise SaaS applications, whether known or unknown. The company offers a security application that enforces security policies and prevents data loss across the entire SaaS portfolio. Grip's solution, known as the SaaS Security Control Plane (SSCP), delivers extreme accuracy in monitoring applications, users, and their interactions, significantly reducing false positives. This innovative approach allows organizations to modernize their security architecture and adopt a business-led IT strategy while maintaining a secure environment. By enabling deep visibility into all enterprise applications, Grip Security helps clients establish a secure network within their workspaces.

Hunters

Series B in 2021
Hunters SOC Platform empowers security teams to automatically identify and respond to incidents that matter, helping teams mitigate real threats faster and more reliably than SIEM.

Grip Security

Seed Round in 2021
Grip Security specializes in providing comprehensive visibility and security for enterprise SaaS applications, whether known or unknown. The company offers a security application that enforces security policies and prevents data loss across the entire SaaS portfolio. Grip's solution, known as the SaaS Security Control Plane (SSCP), delivers extreme accuracy in monitoring applications, users, and their interactions, significantly reducing false positives. This innovative approach allows organizations to modernize their security architecture and adopt a business-led IT strategy while maintaining a secure environment. By enabling deep visibility into all enterprise applications, Grip Security helps clients establish a secure network within their workspaces.

Hunters

Seed Round in 2019
Hunters SOC Platform empowers security teams to automatically identify and respond to incidents that matter, helping teams mitigate real threats faster and more reliably than SIEM.

6Scan

Venture Round in 2011
6Scan is the world's first website protection suite to offer automatic detection and fixing of security vulnerabilities. 6Scan's technology combines both active and passive protection, providing levels of security previously unavailable to all but the most high-end (and high-budget) sites. The product is easy-to-use and designed for website owners with no technical or security knowledge, and its pricing is affordable even for small websites.
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