YL Ventures

YL Ventures funds & supports brilliant Israeli tech entrepreneurs from seed to lead. Based in Silicon Valley and Tel Aviv, YL Ventures manages $140 million focused on deep-technology sectors and specializes in cybersecurity. YL Ventures accelerates the evolution of portfolio companies via strategic advice and U.S.-based operational execution, leveraging a powerful network of Chief Information Security Officers and global industry leaders. The firm's track record includes successful, high-profile portfolio company acquisitions by major corporations including Microsoft, CA and Proofpoint.

Gili Berkovitz

Associate

John Brennan

Partner

Kate Burkhardt

Associate

Michael Cortez

Principal

AE

Andy Ellis

Operating Partner

RG

Robert Goldberg

Venture Partner

Ken Gonzalez

MD, Nightdragon Security

Yoav Andrew Leitersdorf

Managing Partner

Kirk Manoogian

Senior Associate

John Quigley

Cofounder, Special Limited Partner

Ofer Schreiber

Partner

Sharon Seemann

Chief Marketing Officer

Yonit Wiseman

Associate

55 past transactions

Twistlock Inc.

Series B in 2017
Trusted by 25% of the Fortune 100, Twistlock is the most complete, automated and scalable container cybersecurity platform. From precise, actionable vulnerability management to automatically deployed runtime protection and firewalls, Twistlock protects applications across the development lifecycle and into production. Purpose built for containers, serverless, and other leading technologies - Twistlock gives developers the speed they want, and CISOs the control they need. Founded in 2015 by CEO Ben Bernstein and VP R&D Dima Stopel, Twistlock is privately held with funding from Polaris Partners, 1011 Ventures, Rally Ventures, YL Ventures and Dell Technologies Capital. Twistlock is headquartered in Portland, Oregon with offices in New York City, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, London, and Herzliya, Israel.

Satori Cyber

Series A in 2021
Satori Cyber Ltd. owns and operates a cyber security platform that secures data flows in enterprise databases in cloud and hybrid environments. The company through its platform offers continuous visibility and mapping for data flows and data stores, activity based discovery and classification of data in real-time, data security through granular, field-level data access controls and anomaly detection, compliance through continuous monitoring and enforcement of data privacy policies, integration into any cloud or hybrid environment without impacting existing user and application access. Satori Cyber Ltd. was founded in 2019 and is based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

Hunters.AI

Series B in 2021
Cyber Hunters Ltd. develops an artificial intelligence (AI) based software solution for the detection of cyber attack. The company offers a platform, Hunters.AI, which provides detection, prevention, and autonomous hunting cyber threats and breaches. It connects the digital traces to generate actionable visualized attack stories, and optimizes response time. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Twistlock Inc.

Series A in 2016
Trusted by 25% of the Fortune 100, Twistlock is the most complete, automated and scalable container cybersecurity platform. From precise, actionable vulnerability management to automatically deployed runtime protection and firewalls, Twistlock protects applications across the development lifecycle and into production. Purpose built for containers, serverless, and other leading technologies - Twistlock gives developers the speed they want, and CISOs the control they need. Founded in 2015 by CEO Ben Bernstein and VP R&D Dima Stopel, Twistlock is privately held with funding from Polaris Partners, 1011 Ventures, Rally Ventures, YL Ventures and Dell Technologies Capital. Twistlock is headquartered in Portland, Oregon with offices in New York City, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, London, and Herzliya, Israel.

Karamba Security Ltd.

Series A in 2016
Karamba Security's patented software detects and prevents cyberattacks on a wide variety of connected devices and systems, including automotive ECUs, Industry 4.0 controllers, enterprise edge devices, and IoT endpoints. Karamba's security solutions are embedded within devices and work automatically, without any need for customer operation and with negligible performance impact.

Karamba Security Ltd.

Series B in 2021
Karamba Security's patented software detects and prevents cyberattacks on a wide variety of connected devices and systems, including automotive ECUs, Industry 4.0 controllers, enterprise edge devices, and IoT endpoints. Karamba's security solutions are embedded within devices and work automatically, without any need for customer operation and with negligible performance impact.

Axonius, Inc.

Series C in 2020
Axonius, Inc. develops a cybersecurity platform to secure and manage connected devices in use by businesses. It enables enterprises manage their mobile, compute, and IoT devices, as well as see which devices are active on their networks and control them. Its features include integration of new device types through a simple to use adapter API and plug-in framework, secure sharing of adaptors and plug-ins across the organization, and deployment on premise or in the cloud. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Medigate

Series B in 2020
Medigate owns and operates a medical device security platform that protects all connected medical devices on health care provider networks. The platform offers threat detection and attack prevention services. Itay Kirshenbaum, Jonathan Langer, and Pini Pinhasov founded Medigate on September 1, 2017. It has its headquarters in New York City.

Hunters.AI

Seed Round in 2019
Cyber Hunters Ltd. develops an artificial intelligence (AI) based software solution for the detection of cyber attack. The company offers a platform, Hunters.AI, which provides detection, prevention, and autonomous hunting cyber threats and breaches. It connects the digital traces to generate actionable visualized attack stories, and optimizes response time. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Grip Security

Seed Round in 2021
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

Axonius, Inc.

Series B in 2019
Axonius, Inc. develops a cybersecurity platform to secure and manage connected devices in use by businesses. It enables enterprises manage their mobile, compute, and IoT devices, as well as see which devices are active on their networks and control them. Its features include integration of new device types through a simple to use adapter API and plug-in framework, secure sharing of adaptors and plug-ins across the organization, and deployment on premise or in the cloud. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Cycode Ltd

Series A in 2021
Cycode is the industry’s first source code control, detection, and response platform. Its Source Path Intelligence engine seamlessly delivers comprehensive visibility into all of your code and automatically detects and responds to anomalies in its access, movement, and usage. With Cycode, organizations are “Secured to The Source”; its solution empowers security teams to rapidly and dramatically reduce the risk of source code loss without impacting developer access or productivity.

Vulcan Cyber

Series A in 2019
Vulcan Cyber Ltd. operates a vulnerability remediation platform. It provides a technology platform, which integrates, automates, and orchestrates existing tools and processes and lets security teams gain the insight needed and take the action required to continuously eliminate exposed vulnerabilities in their production systems. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel with an additional office in San Fracisco, California.

Upstream Commerce

Venture Round in 2013
Upstream Commerce Ltd. provides cloud-based automated competitive pricing and product analytics solutions for online retail applications. It offers pricing and product intelligence solutions. The company offers solutions which provides a range of aggregated information on pricing, pricing fluctuations, and availability; latest updates on sales, clearances, and promotions; competitors assortment with important products highlighted; and pricing opportunities, such as underpriced products. Its solutions help users to proactively adjust their pricing to the appropriate levels for market conditions. The company serves online merchants, consumer-product manufacturers, buyers and professionals, merchandising, executives, and marketing and sales managers. Upstream Commerce Ltd. was founded in 2010 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. As of September 25, 2018, Upstream Commerce Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Flipkart Online Services Pvt. Ltd.

Hexadite

Series A in 2016
Hexadite Ltd. develops a security orchestration and automation solution to investigate and resolve cyber incidents. The company focuses on automated cybersecurity incident response. It offers Hexadite Automated Incident Response Solution, which investigates all cyber-alerts and resolves all breaches to shut down cyber-attacks. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. As of December 31, 2017, Hexadite Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation.

6Scan

Venture Round in 2013
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.

Orca Security Ltd.

Seed Round in 2019
Orca Security Ltd. develops and operates a cloud native security platform that secures both customers’ own cloud native and legacy applications migrated to the cloud without agents. It utilizes integration into the cloud infrastructure layer to assess the security state of every discovered asset; encompasses the cloud control plane, operating system, applications and business data; delivers visibility into compromised resources, vulnerable software, and misconfigurations; utilizes read-only access with no impact on performance or availability; and allows IT security teams to do agent deploying or network scanning. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Valence Security

Seed Round in 2021
Valence Security is the first Business Application Mesh security company focused on managing the risks from third-party integrations and securing app-to-app connectivity.

Hunters.AI

Series C in 2022
Cyber Hunters Ltd. develops an artificial intelligence (AI) based software solution for the detection of cyber attack. The company offers a platform, Hunters.AI, which provides detection, prevention, and autonomous hunting cyber threats and breaches. It connects the digital traces to generate actionable visualized attack stories, and optimizes response time. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

AcceloWeb

Series A in 2009
An Israel-based company that uses optimization techniques to make web browsing 2 to 10 times faster for the web user. This is all done on the back end side of things.

Cycode Ltd

Series B in 2021
Cycode is the industry’s first source code control, detection, and response platform. Its Source Path Intelligence engine seamlessly delivers comprehensive visibility into all of your code and automatically detects and responds to anomalies in its access, movement, and usage. With Cycode, organizations are “Secured to The Source”; its solution empowers security teams to rapidly and dramatically reduce the risk of source code loss without impacting developer access or productivity.

Cycode Ltd

Seed Round in 2019
Cycode is the industry’s first source code control, detection, and response platform. Its Source Path Intelligence engine seamlessly delivers comprehensive visibility into all of your code and automatically detects and responds to anomalies in its access, movement, and usage. With Cycode, organizations are “Secured to The Source”; its solution empowers security teams to rapidly and dramatically reduce the risk of source code loss without impacting developer access or productivity.

Grip Security

Series A in 2021
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

Upstream Commerce

Series A in 2011
Upstream Commerce Ltd. provides cloud-based automated competitive pricing and product analytics solutions for online retail applications. It offers pricing and product intelligence solutions. The company offers solutions which provides a range of aggregated information on pricing, pricing fluctuations, and availability; latest updates on sales, clearances, and promotions; competitors assortment with important products highlighted; and pricing opportunities, such as underpriced products. Its solutions help users to proactively adjust their pricing to the appropriate levels for market conditions. The company serves online merchants, consumer-product manufacturers, buyers and professionals, merchandising, executives, and marketing and sales managers. Upstream Commerce Ltd. was founded in 2010 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. As of September 25, 2018, Upstream Commerce Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Flipkart Online Services Pvt. Ltd.

Piiano

Seed Round in 2021
Piiano develops privacy engineering infrastructure for cloud-native applications.

Satori Cyber

Seed Round in 2019
Satori Cyber Ltd. owns and operates a cyber security platform that secures data flows in enterprise databases in cloud and hybrid environments. The company through its platform offers continuous visibility and mapping for data flows and data stores, activity based discovery and classification of data in real-time, data security through granular, field-level data access controls and anomaly detection, compliance through continuous monitoring and enforcement of data privacy policies, integration into any cloud or hybrid environment without impacting existing user and application access. Satori Cyber Ltd. was founded in 2019 and is based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

Karamba Security Ltd.

Seed Round in 2016
Karamba Security's patented software detects and prevents cyberattacks on a wide variety of connected devices and systems, including automotive ECUs, Industry 4.0 controllers, enterprise edge devices, and IoT endpoints. Karamba's security solutions are embedded within devices and work automatically, without any need for customer operation and with negligible performance impact.

Vulcan Cyber

Series B in 2021
Vulcan Cyber Ltd. operates a vulnerability remediation platform. It provides a technology platform, which integrates, automates, and orchestrates existing tools and processes and lets security teams gain the insight needed and take the action required to continuously eliminate exposed vulnerabilities in their production systems. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel with an additional office in San Fracisco, California.

Hexadite

Seed Round in 2014
Hexadite Ltd. develops a security orchestration and automation solution to investigate and resolve cyber incidents. The company focuses on automated cybersecurity incident response. It offers Hexadite Automated Incident Response Solution, which investigates all cyber-alerts and resolves all breaches to shut down cyber-attacks. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. As of December 31, 2017, Hexadite Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation.

Axonius, Inc.

Series D in 2021
Axonius, Inc. develops a cybersecurity platform to secure and manage connected devices in use by businesses. It enables enterprises manage their mobile, compute, and IoT devices, as well as see which devices are active on their networks and control them. Its features include integration of new device types through a simple to use adapter API and plug-in framework, secure sharing of adaptors and plug-ins across the organization, and deployment on premise or in the cloud. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Clicktale

Series A in 2007
Clicktale Ltd. develops and offers Software-As-A-Service, cloud-based analytic system and service for digital customer experience management solutions. It offers ClickTale Core that tracks and reveals digital customer experience and helps to optimize desktop website and improve conversion; ClickTale, a SaaS in-page analytics solution that allows businesses to increase sales and maximize engagement by viewing their customers’ online experiences; Clicktale Experience Cloud, a platform to help enterprises answer critical customer questions and improve business outcomes for digital properties; and Session Playback, a solution that provides Mouse Tracking Suite recordings of browser sessions that show how individuals move, click, and scroll. The company also provides Data-Rich Heatmaps that aggregate session playbacks into visual representations; conversion tools to increase conversion rate of forms and funnels; and site efficiency tools to monitor a website’s efficiency and performance. In addition, it offers form analytics and customizable conversion funnels that enable assessment and optimization of online behavior. The company serves e-commerce business, financial services, media and content, telecommunications, travel, and utility sectors worldwide. It offers its services to retail, finance and insurance, telecommunication, technology, media and content, and travel. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Ramat Gan, Israel with an additional office in Jersey City, New Jersey; San Francisco, California; and London, United Kingdom. Clicktale Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Content Square SAS.

Piiano

Seed Round in 2021
Piiano develops privacy engineering infrastructure for cloud-native applications.

Orca Security Ltd.

Series A in 2020
Orca Security Ltd. develops and operates a cloud native security platform that secures both customers’ own cloud native and legacy applications migrated to the cloud without agents. It utilizes integration into the cloud infrastructure layer to assess the security state of every discovered asset; encompasses the cloud control plane, operating system, applications and business data; delivers visibility into compromised resources, vulnerable software, and misconfigurations; utilizes read-only access with no impact on performance or availability; and allows IT security teams to do agent deploying or network scanning. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

RideVision

Seed Round in 2018
Ride Vision was created by technologists by day, motorbike riders by road, to give any motorcycle Predictive Vision. Ride Vision’s computer vision and neural network based CAT™ - Collision Aversion Technology leverages standard hardware and cameras to sense, predict and warn riders of threats on the road. Ride Vision can be incorporated into any new or traded motorbikes of any price range.

Axonius, Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Axonius, Inc. develops a cybersecurity platform to secure and manage connected devices in use by businesses. It enables enterprises manage their mobile, compute, and IoT devices, as well as see which devices are active on their networks and control them. Its features include integration of new device types through a simple to use adapter API and plug-in framework, secure sharing of adaptors and plug-ins across the organization, and deployment on premise or in the cloud. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Axonius, Inc.

Series A in 2019
Axonius, Inc. develops a cybersecurity platform to secure and manage connected devices in use by businesses. It enables enterprises manage their mobile, compute, and IoT devices, as well as see which devices are active on their networks and control them. Its features include integration of new device types through a simple to use adapter API and plug-in framework, secure sharing of adaptors and plug-ins across the organization, and deployment on premise or in the cloud. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Twistlock Inc.

Series C in 2018
Trusted by 25% of the Fortune 100, Twistlock is the most complete, automated and scalable container cybersecurity platform. From precise, actionable vulnerability management to automatically deployed runtime protection and firewalls, Twistlock protects applications across the development lifecycle and into production. Purpose built for containers, serverless, and other leading technologies - Twistlock gives developers the speed they want, and CISOs the control they need. Founded in 2015 by CEO Ben Bernstein and VP R&D Dima Stopel, Twistlock is privately held with funding from Polaris Partners, 1011 Ventures, Rally Ventures, YL Ventures and Dell Technologies Capital. Twistlock is headquartered in Portland, Oregon with offices in New York City, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, London, and Herzliya, Israel.

Enso Security Ltd.

Seed Round in 2020
Enso Security Ltd. designs and develops a security posture management platform. It helps security teams in eliminating their application security chaos with application discovery, classification, and management. Its software deploys into enterprise environments to create inventory of various application assets with their owners, security posture, and associated risk. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

RideVision

Series A in 2020
Ride Vision was created by technologists by day, motorbike riders by road, to give any motorcycle Predictive Vision. Ride Vision’s computer vision and neural network based CAT™ - Collision Aversion Technology leverages standard hardware and cameras to sense, predict and warn riders of threats on the road. Ride Vision can be incorporated into any new or traded motorbikes of any price range.

Twistlock Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Trusted by 25% of the Fortune 100, Twistlock is the most complete, automated and scalable container cybersecurity platform. From precise, actionable vulnerability management to automatically deployed runtime protection and firewalls, Twistlock protects applications across the development lifecycle and into production. Purpose built for containers, serverless, and other leading technologies - Twistlock gives developers the speed they want, and CISOs the control they need. Founded in 2015 by CEO Ben Bernstein and VP R&D Dima Stopel, Twistlock is privately held with funding from Polaris Partners, 1011 Ventures, Rally Ventures, YL Ventures and Dell Technologies Capital. Twistlock is headquartered in Portland, Oregon with offices in New York City, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, London, and Herzliya, Israel.

BlazeMeter LLC

Series A in 2014
BlazeMeter LLC develops open source-based continuous application performance testing solutions for developers. The company facilitates software delivery through its Performance-Testing-As-Code platform. Its platform is compatible with Apache JMeter and enables API testing; and WebDriver tests drive load traffic from real browsers. The company’s platform also allows driving load through various public clouds, such as Amazon and Google from regions in the Asia Pacific, Europe, and North and South America. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel. As of October 11, 2016, BlazeMeter LLC operates as a subsidiary of CA, Inc.

Medigate

Series A in 2019
Medigate owns and operates a medical device security platform that protects all connected medical devices on health care provider networks. The platform offers threat detection and attack prevention services. Itay Kirshenbaum, Jonathan Langer, and Pini Pinhasov founded Medigate on September 1, 2017. It has its headquarters in New York City.

Build Security Ltd.

Seed Round in 2020
Build Security Ltd. provides an authorization policy management platform for developers to bake authorization policy management right into their applications. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Sunnyvale, California with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Vulcan Cyber

Seed Round in 2018
Vulcan Cyber Ltd. operates a vulnerability remediation platform. It provides a technology platform, which integrates, automates, and orchestrates existing tools and processes and lets security teams gain the insight needed and take the action required to continuously eliminate exposed vulnerabilities in their production systems. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel with an additional office in San Fracisco, California.

FireLayers

Seed Round in 2014
FireLayers enables IT to proactively protect the usage of cloud applications via rule-based policies while ensuring that they maintain the required security and compliance levels. They protect cloud application usage from initial user identification to the safe retrieval of data and request fulfillment. They add a layer of proactive protection and monitoring to any cloud application identifying all users, applications, and actions.

FireLayers

Venture Round in 2015
FireLayers enables IT to proactively protect the usage of cloud applications via rule-based policies while ensuring that they maintain the required security and compliance levels. They protect cloud application usage from initial user identification to the safe retrieval of data and request fulfillment. They add a layer of proactive protection and monitoring to any cloud application identifying all users, applications, and actions.

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.

Orca Security Ltd.

Series B in 2020
Orca Security Ltd. develops and operates a cloud native security platform that secures both customers’ own cloud native and legacy applications migrated to the cloud without agents. It utilizes integration into the cloud infrastructure layer to assess the security state of every discovered asset; encompasses the cloud control plane, operating system, applications and business data; delivers visibility into compromised resources, vulnerable software, and misconfigurations; utilizes read-only access with no impact on performance or availability; and allows IT security teams to do agent deploying or network scanning. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Seculert

Seed Round in 2010
Seculert Ltd. provides cloud-based cyber threat management services to detect and prevent cyber threats from infiltrating in to networks of enterprises, governments, and service providers. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Petach Tikva, Israel. As of January 31, 2017, Seculert Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Radware Ltd.

Medigate

Seed Round in 2017
Medigate owns and operates a medical device security platform that protects all connected medical devices on health care provider networks. The platform offers threat detection and attack prevention services. Itay Kirshenbaum, Jonathan Langer, and Pini Pinhasov founded Medigate on September 1, 2017. It has its headquarters in New York City.

Hunters.AI

Series A in 2020
Cyber Hunters Ltd. develops an artificial intelligence (AI) based software solution for the detection of cyber attack. The company offers a platform, Hunters.AI, which provides detection, prevention, and autonomous hunting cyber threats and breaches. It connects the digital traces to generate actionable visualized attack stories, and optimizes response time. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Seculert

Series A in 2012
Seculert Ltd. provides cloud-based cyber threat management services to detect and prevent cyber threats from infiltrating in to networks of enterprises, governments, and service providers. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Petach Tikva, Israel. As of January 31, 2017, Seculert Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Radware Ltd.

BlazeMeter LLC

Series A in 2011
BlazeMeter LLC develops open source-based continuous application performance testing solutions for developers. The company facilitates software delivery through its Performance-Testing-As-Code platform. Its platform is compatible with Apache JMeter and enables API testing; and WebDriver tests drive load traffic from real browsers. The company’s platform also allows driving load through various public clouds, such as Amazon and Google from regions in the Asia Pacific, Europe, and North and South America. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel. As of October 11, 2016, BlazeMeter LLC operates as a subsidiary of CA, Inc.

Karamba Security Ltd.

Series B in 2017
Karamba Security's patented software detects and prevents cyberattacks on a wide variety of connected devices and systems, including automotive ECUs, Industry 4.0 controllers, enterprise edge devices, and IoT endpoints. Karamba's security solutions are embedded within devices and work automatically, without any need for customer operation and with negligible performance impact.