YL Ventures
YL Ventures is a Seed venture capital firm based in Tel Aviv, Israel / San Francisco, California investing in Security, Enterprise. The firm typically writes $3.0M–$5.0M checks and has 12 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $3.0M–$5.0M
- Portfolio
- 12 companies on record
- Partners
- 6 listed
- AUM
- $800M
- Stage
- Seed
- Sectors
- Security, Enterprise
- HQ
- Tel Aviv, Israel / San Francisco, California
Last verified: 2026-07-08
Seed
$3.0M – $5.0M
$800M
12+ companies
6 partners
Investment Thesis
YL Ventures invests exclusively in seed stage Israeli-founded cybersecurity startups with global potential.
How YL Ventures invests
YL Ventures is a vc firm based in Tel Aviv, Israel / San Francisco, California. The firm invests at the Seed stage, with a focus on Security, Enterprise. It does not invest in Consumer.
YL Ventures typically writes checks of $3.0M–$5.0M per investment, backed by approximately $800M in assets under management.
Investing since at least 2021, YL Ventures has backed 12 companies in our records, including Native, Grip, Opti. Its most recent recorded investment was in 2025, with 3 investments logged over the last 12 months.
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Portfolio Companies (12)
2025
Native
Native helps organizations achieve stronger security outcomes by harnessing the full power of native cloud security controls.
Grip
Grip is securing the future of business, where every workflow, decision, and operation is powered by AI.
Opti
Opti is the AI-native IAM platform built to transform how identity teams work, unifying and analyzing identity data across any app.
2024
Novee
Novee is the first AI platform that combines offensive and defensive cybersecurity in one autonomous system.
Orca
Orca enables organizations to make cloud security a strategic advantage with comprehensive coverage and visibility across multi-cloud environments.
2023
MIND
MIND is the first-ever data security platform to enable stress-free data loss prevention (DLP) and insider risk management (IRM) programs on autopilot.
2022
Spera Security
Spera Security built an Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) platform that consolidates identity and access signals from the entire enterprise stack.
Minimus
Minimus tackles the hidden risk inside modern software: container images packed with unnecessary components and known vulnerabilities.
Aim Security
Aim built the first platform to secure enterprise AI adoption, protecting employee use of public AI and safeguarding private AI systems.
2021
Miggo
Miggo Security delivers AI runtime defense through its application detection and response (ADR) solution.
- •Raising at Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Security, Enterprise — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $3.0M – $5.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Gye Cohen, Vice President of Operations.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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