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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.

    60% of their portfolio is in Cybersecurity. Deal activity decreased year-over-year (1 deal in the last 12 months vs 6 prior). Their most common stage is seed (43% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $23.5M (across 64 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    37

    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

    70 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    MIND logoMINDSeries B$72MJan 2026
    Hhush.securitySeries A$30MJan 2026
    Opti logoOptiSeed$20MNov 2025
    Hhush.securitySeed$11MSep 2025
    MIND logoMINDSeries A$30MJun 2025
    MMiggo SecuritySeries A$17MApr 2025
    Miggo logoMiggoSeries A$17MApr 2025
    ScorePlay logoScorePlaySeries A—Feb 2025
    Novee logoNoveeSeed$51.5MJan 2025
    Ionix logoIonixSeries A$42MNov 2024
    AAim SecuritySeed$10MJan 2024
    Axonius logoAxoniusSeries E$200MJan 2024
    GGutsySeed$51MOct 2023
    Grip Security logoGrip SecuritySeries B$41MAug 2023
    SSperaSeed$10MMar 2023
    GGutsySeed$51MJan 2023
    Grip Security logoGrip SecuritySeries B$41MJan 2023
    Valence Security logoValence SecuritySeries A$25MOct 2022
    OOpus SecuritySeed$10MSep 2022
    Hunters logoHuntersSeries C$68MJan 2022
    Hunters Ai logoHunters AiSeries C$68MJan 2022
    Axonius logoAxoniusSeries C$58MJan 2022
    EEureka SecuritySeed$8MJan 2022
    Grip Security logoGrip SecuritySeries A$19MDec 2021
    Karamba Security logoKaramba SecuritySeries B$10MDec 2021
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    Top Co-Investors

    Bessemer Venture Partners9 shared
    Blumberg Capital8 shared
    U.S. Venture Partners7 shared
    Stripes5 shared
    M125 shared
    Okta Ventures5 shared
    TenEleven Ventures5 shared
    Insight Partners4 shared
    Canaan Partners4 shared
    Cyber Club London4 shared
    Accel4 shared
    Emerge4 shared
    SYN Ventures4 shared
    Intel Capital3 shared
    Nexus Venture Partners3 shared
    Databricks Ventures3 shared
    Snowflake Ventures3 shared
    Cisco Investments3 shared
    Iconiq Capital, LLC3 shared
    Real Ventures3 shared

    Last updated: 20 October 2026