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YL Ventures

42 Miller Avenue, Mill Valley, CA, 94941, United States

Overview

YL Ventures funds and supports brilliant Israeli tech entrepreneurs from seed to lead. Based in Silicon Valley and Tel Aviv, YL Ventures manages over $300 million and exclusively invests 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 Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft, CA, and Proofpoint.

Total investments
62
Lead investments
34
Investments · 12mo
5
Active investors
2

Sector focus

  • Cyber Security
  • Finance
  • Financial Services
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • Hush Security

    Participated · Series A · Jul 2026

    Hush Security provides a platform that enrolls every AI agent and non-human identity in a central registry, removes standing credentials, grants scoped just-in-time permissions at runtime, logs every action, and offers a centralized kill switch. The company emphasizes discovery of managed and shadow agents, centralized control and least-agency enforcement, and end-to-end audit trails for governance and compliance. Founded by the team behind Meta Networks and less than a year out of stealth, Hush reports adoption by multiple Fortune 500 customers, including Kyndryl which has deployed and begun reselling the product. Hush has raised a total of $41 million to date, including a $30 million Series A led by strategic and existing investors. The company plans to use the new capital to expand engineering and sales headcount—especially in the U.S.—deepen integrations with enterprise IAM and AI platforms, and grow corporate partnerships.

  • Native

    Participated · Series A · Mar 2026

    Native provides a cloud security control platform that continuously translates security intent into enforceable, secure-by-design architecture across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Its solution leverages each provider’s native controls to adapt security posture for multi-cloud enterprises. The company reports deployment with Fortune 100 customers across finance, technology, and media. Native currently has 41 employees across Tel Aviv and the United States and plans to grow to 90 employees by the end of 2026. Financially, the company completed a $31M Series A that brought total funding to $42M. The company was founded by CEO Amit Megiddo, CPO Gal Ordo, and CTO Eyal Faingold, and Phil Venables has joined its board.

  • Novee

    Led · Seed · Jan 2026

    Founded in May 2025 by veterans of Unit 8200 and other elite Israeli cyber units, Novee has built a platform that marries offensive cyber tactics with proprietary AI models to automate penetration testing across applications, networks, and cloud environments. The system continuously scans for business-logic and other hard-to-find vulnerabilities, then guides customers through remediation, moving beyond purely diagnostic tools. Early adopters include technology firms such as K Health, HiBob, Reco, Cresta, Telit, and JB Poindexter, giving the eight-month-old company what it describes as “dozens of customers.” Novee currently employs 32 people split between Israel and New York and is in the process of expanding its U.S. office and sales presence. Management says the immediate roadmap is to broaden coverage from application security into full organizational penetration testing, positioning itself as a comprehensive solution akin to Wiz in cloud security. The founders emphasize that execution and customer acquisition, rather than additional fundraising, are the near-term priorities. To date, the company has secured $51.5 million in equity financing, providing substantial runway for product expansion and market growth.

  • Opti

    Led · Seed · Nov 2025

    Opti provides security teams with an AI engine that interprets identity risk, recommends least-privilege decisions, and orchestrates continuous access corrections across complex enterprise environments. Its pre-trained, domain-expert LLMs analyze thousands of identity data points in real time, detecting vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and over-privileged access while delivering validated remediation guidance. The platform is designed for large organizations in finance, retail, healthcare, and technology where continuous compliance and risk reduction are critical. Founded in 2024 by cybersecurity veterans Barak Perelman, Mille Gandelsman, and Ido Trivizki, Opti positions itself as a fully automated replacement for fragmented, manual IAM processes. Customers gain an intelligence layer that makes identity operations faster, clearer, and safer, ultimately lowering costs and elevating security posture. With fresh capital, the company plans to accelerate product expansion and pursue global growth initiatives. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the announcement.

  • MIND

    Participated · Series A · Jun 2025

    MIND offers an AI-native DLP platform that unifies data security posture and data loss prevention to autonomously find sensitive data, remediate risks, and stop leaks in real time. Its multi-layer classification engine, MIND AI, drives posture through discovery and classification and claims to reduce DLP false positives to nearly zero. The company protects sensitive data using a proprietary endpoint agent and has prevented data loss across hundreds of thousands of endpoints. Since emerging from stealth seven months ago, MIND has achieved 500% customer growth and gained traction among Fortune 1000 companies. The funding will be used to fuel strategic growth, enhance the platform, and double R&D and go-to-market teams by year’s end. MIND is led by CEO Eran Barak and is based in Seattle, WA. MIND offers an intelligent DLP platform that integrates AI and smart automation to identify, detect, and prevent data leaks in real time across a wide range of IT workloads. At the core of the product is MIND AI, a proprietary engine with hundreds of tailored algorithms to classify unstructured sensitive data, provide context-aware risk views, reduce false positives, and automate prevention and remediation actions. The platform continuously discovers and classifies sensitive data across SaaS and generative-AI applications, endpoints, on-premises systems, and email, and is designed to monitor billions of data events 24×7. MIND emerged from stealth and was launched last year by Eran Barak, Itai Schwartz, and Hod Bin Noon, who bring prior startup experience (including Hexadite, Torq, and Dazz) and leadership backgrounds in Israeli Military Intelligence Unit 8200. The company positions itself as a unified approach to securing data at rest, in motion, and in use amid rising data volumes driven by generative AI. Financially, MIND disclosed an $11 million seed round led by YL Ventures.

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