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YL Ventures appoints Elias Terman as Operating Partner

Terman joins YL Ventures from Orca Security, where he served as SVP of Marketing.

War can't stop Israeli cyber growth

27.06.24|Sophie Shulman

Israeli cyber startups raised $2.9 billion between January and mid-June, compared to $1.9 billion in all of 2023 and $3.2 billion in 2022. There were also 12 exits in early 2024, compared to 21 in 2023, 16 in 2022, and a record 35 in 2021, according to a report by YL Ventures

Ideating in a saturated cybersecurity market

24.03.24|Nadav Lev

“The rapidly evolving nature of cybersecurity threats outpaces the ability of larger vendors to adapt. This creates a prime opportunity for nimble startups to develop innovative, tailored solutions that address these specific pain points,” writes Nadav Lev, CTO at YL Ventures

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“Israeli tech has the rare ability to bounce back stronger than ever in the face of adversity”

20.02.24|James Spiro, Elihay Vidal

Ofer Schreiber, Senior Partner at YL Ventures, joined CTech to discuss some of the cybersecurity trends to look out for in 2024

Former Unity, SAP and Yahoo! CISO, Justin Somaini, joins YL Ventures as Partner

Somaini will join the Board of Directors of several of YL Ventures’ existing portfolio companies and lead the firm’s US-based Business Development team

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Decoding Israel's cyber success amid 2023 challenges and predictions for 2024

04.01.24|Sophie Shulman

YL Ventures' analysis exposes Israeli cyber's resilience, with total fundraising among Israeli cybersecurity startups last year amounting to $1.9 billion in 71 investment rounds, marking a 41% drop compared to 2022. However, the average Seed round rose to $9.8 million in 2023 and 21 Israeli cyber companies were acquired, compared to 16 in 2022

מייסדי Grip ליאור יערי אלון שנקלר עידן פסט

Grip Security raises $41 million led by Daniel Loeb's Third Point Ventures

22.08.23|Sophie Shulman

"There are companies that previously secured funding based on unicorn valuations with our level of revenue," said CEO Lior Yaari

Spera raises $10 million to provide proactive protection from identity-driven threats

29.03.23|Meir Orbach

The Israeli startup developed a solution that aims to provide end-to-end identity attack surface management, risk reduction and identity threat prevention, detection, and response

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YL Ventures: “The cybersecurity industry is not immune to geopolitical shifts”

21.11.22|Elihay Vidal, James Spiro

Ofer Schreiber, YL Ventures Senior Partner and Head of Israel Office, joined CTech to discuss how the cybersecurity market is impacted by the tech crisis.

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Frank Kim of SANS Institute joins YL Ventures as its new CISO-in-Residence

Kim’s predecessor, Ryan Gurney, has transitioned to the role of Operating Partner

Opus nets $10 million in Seed funding for cloud security platform

13.09.22|James Spiro

The Israeli startup aims to help cloud security teams with automation, gain control, and lead remediation efforts across the organizational cloud environment by using best practices and proven methodologies

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"Almost all Israel's cyber giants will lay off employees this summer"

14.07.22|Sophie Shulman

Yoav Leitersdorf, Managing Partner at YL Ventures, the world's largest cybersecurity-dedicated fund, predicts that the decline in inflated values will affect the entire industry, but will not end the boom: "Demand is still high. Those who sell hype and air are the main ones who will be hurt"

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Cybersecurity “has real adversaries” that must be defeated, explains YL Ventures

15.05.22|James Spiro

Ofer Schreiber, Partner and Head of Israel Office at YL Ventures, spoke about cybersecurity and its challenges in the investment world

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YL Ventures announces $400 million fifth fund, the largest Seed stage cybersecurity-focused fund ever raised

10.05.22|Meir Orbach

The fund will be used to both lead the Seed rounds of approximately 10 startups at a pace of three startups per year, and to invest in the companies’ follow-on rounds

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Eureka raises $8 million in Seed for security in expanding cloud data use

12.01.22|James Spiro

The company claims to create the industry’s first data cloud security management solution

מייסדי Grip ליאור יערי אלון שנקלר עידן פסט

Cybersecurity startup Grip raises $19 million in Series A nine months after founding

07.12.21|Meir Orbach

The Israeli company’s automated solution discovers shadow applications and dormant accounts that have ungoverned continued access to customer data, production environments and more

ועידת ניו יורק 2021 פיל ונבלס אבי שוע ג'וש ברנן

“We think Israel is the best place to invest in cybersecurity”

Said John Brennan, a partner at YL Ventures, during a panel on cybersecurity alongside Orca Security CEO Avi Shua and Google Cloud CISO Phil Venables

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Piiano raises $9 million in Seed for enterprise data security

26.10.21|James Spiro

The platform helps security and privacy teams monitor and gain data-driven insights while helping developers partition and isolate PII

Valence emerges from stealth with $7 million in funding to solve integrations risks

The Israeli startup's platform continuously alerts on anomalous activities and unauthorized data access across the Business Application Mesh

ריאן גורני YL Ventures

Ryan Gurney, ex-Googler, joins YL Ventures as CISO-in-Residence

Former Chief Security Officer at Looker, which was acquired by Google, brings customer-centric and early adopter-perspective to support YL Ventures portfolio companies’ expansion