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    YL Ventures

    Mill Valley, California, United StatesFounded 2007
    www.ylventures.comLinkedIn
    Cybersecurity

    YL Ventures is a venture capital firm dedicated exclusively to cybersecurity, partnering with top Israeli founders from seed to scale. Its latest fund, YLV Fund V, closed at $400 million in May 2022, bringing the firm's total capital under management to $800 million. Headquartered in Mill Valley, California with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel, the firm maintains a network of over 115 CISOs and senior executives supporting its portfolio companies.

    56% of their portfolio is in Cybersecurity. Deal activity decreased year-over-year (1 deals in the last 12 months vs 4 prior). Their most common stage is seed (42% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $25.7M (across 42 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    35

    Fund Size

    $400M

    Top Stage

    Seed

    Last 12 Mo

    1

    Team

    YA

    Yoav Andrew Leitersdorf

    Managing Partner

    KM

    Kirk Manoogian

    Partner

    OS

    Ofer Schreiber

    Senior Partner

    GC

    Gye Cohen

    VP Operations and HR

    MB

    Merav Ben Avi

    VP Marketing

    SZ

    Shelly Zohar

    Vice President

    AG

    Adi Greenwald

    Associate

    MJ

    Maeve Juday

    Associate

    OS

    Or Salom

    Analyst

    AS

    Adi Shamai

    Office Manager

    DR

    Dave Reed

    CFO

    GS

    Gal Spiner Abramovich

    Marketing Partnerships Manager

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    48 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    HHush SecuritySeed$11MSep 2025
    MIND logoMINDSeries A$30MJun 2025
    MMiggo SecuritySeries A$17MApr 2025
    Miggo logoMiggoSeries A$17MApr 2025
    ScorePlay logoScorePlaySeries A—Feb 2025
    AAim SecuritySeed$10MJan 2024
    AAxonius, Inc.Series E$200MJan 2024
    GGutsySeed$51MOct 2023
    Grip Security logoGrip SecuritySeries B$41MAug 2023
    SSperaSeed$10MMar 2023
    GGutsySeed$51MJan 2023
    Valence Security logoValence SecuritySeries A$25MOct 2022
    OOpus SecuritySeed$10MSep 2022
    Hunters logoHuntersSeries C$68MJan 2022
    Hunters Ai logoHunters AiSeries C$68MJan 2022
    EEureka SecuritySeed$8MJan 2022
    Grip Security logoGrip SecuritySeries A$19MDec 2021
    Karamba Security logoKaramba SecuritySeries B$10MDec 2021
    Cycode logoCycodeSeries B$56MNov 2021
    PPiianoSeed$9MOct 2021
    Valence logoValenceSeed$7MOct 2021
    Satori logoSatoriSeries A$20MSep 2021
    Vulcan Cyber logoVulcan CyberSeries B$21MMar 2021
    Orca Security logoOrca SecuritySeries B$55MDec 2020
    Bbuild.securitySeed$6MNov 2020
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    Top Co-Investors

    Bessemer Venture Partners6 shared
    Blumberg Capital5 shared
    Stripes4 shared
    TenEleven Ventures4 shared
    M123 shared
    U.S. Venture Partners3 shared
    Okta Ventures3 shared
    Databricks Ventures3 shared
    Snowflake Ventures3 shared
    Cisco Investments3 shared
    Real Ventures3 shared
    Emerge3 shared
    Intel Capital2 shared
    Digital Transformation Capital Partners2 shared
    Nexus Venture Partners2 shared
    GGV Capital2 shared
    Iconiq Capital, LLC2 shared
    Silicon Valley CISO Investments2 shared
    Warner Music Group2 shared
    QueensBridge Venture Partners2 shared

    Last updated: 9 September 2026