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YL Ventures

Venture Capital · Founded 2007 · San Francisco, United States

#18 Investor Ranking 2026 Top 1% in Israel

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35 Portfolio companies+67% in 5 years
2 Unicorns
70 Investments
Jul 2026 Last investment
01 · Knowledge graph
News Echo buys Minimus days after its planned shutdown, expanding container security options Aug 28, 2026 News Twistlock founders shut down Minimus, return remaining $10M after $51M seed round Aug 24, 2026 News Hush Security lands $30M Series A to govern enterprise AI agents Jul 28, 2026
02 · Biggest holdings

YL Ventures’ biggest current holdings.

The most valuable companies YL Ventures still holds, ordered by Dealroom’s latest valuation. Companies that have been acquired or gone public are in Exits instead. Dealroom has no parsed shareholder register for YL Ventures, so the size of each stake isn’t shown.

#CompanyValuation
  1. 1 AxoniusUnicorn · Security · USA $2.6B
  2. 2 Orca SecurityUnicorn · Security · USA $1.8B

Unicorns and thoroughbreds YL Ventures has backed and still holds, at Dealroom’s latest valuation. See the underlying shareholder registers on Dealroom →

03 · Portfolio analysis

Where YL Ventures’ portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 35 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. Israel22
  2. USA14
By sectorCount
  1. Security28
  2. Enterprise Software12
  3. Transportation3
  4. Fintech1
  5. Health1
  6. Hosting1
  7. Jobs Recruitment1
  8. Telecom1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Seed27
  2. Series A8
By growth stageCount
  1. Breakout Stage21
  2. Early Growth10
  3. Late Growth5
04 · Portfolio market map

Inside YL Ventures’ portfolio.

The 35 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 35 tracked.

Orca Security
Security · Unicorn
$1.8B
Axonius
Security · Unicorn
$2.6B
Segway
Transportation
$20M
Hunters
Security
$272M
FireLayers
Security
$55M
Cycode
Security
$224M
Grip Security
Security
$164M
Vulcan Cyber
Security
$150M
ClickTale
Telecom
$140M
Novee
Security
$206M
Minimus
Security
$204M
Medigate
Health
$400M
Native
Security
$124M
Hush Security
Security
$120M
MIND
Security
$120M
Karamba Security
Security
$40M
Opti AI
Security
$80M
Valence Security
Security
$100M
Aim Security
Enterprise Software
$72M
Satori Cyber
Security
$80M
Miggo Security
Security
$68M
Woo
Jobs Recruitment
$28M
Seculert
Security
$40M
Enso Security
Security
$30M
Eureka
Security
$16M
Hexadite
Security
$32M
Spera
Security
$115M
Opus Security
Security
$40M
BlazeMeter
Enterprise Software
$100M
Ride Vision
Security
$28M
Piiano Privacy Solutions
Security
$36M
Build.security
USA
$24M
Upstream Commerce
Fintech
$12M
6Scan
Security
AcceloWeb
Hosting
05 · Portfolio founders

Where YL Ventures’ portfolio founders come from.

77 founders across the 36 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount
  1. Israel53
  2. United States18
  3. Netherlands1
  4. Spain1
UniversityCount
  1. Tel Aviv University16
  2. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem12
  3. Bar-Ilan University8
  4. The Open University of Israel6
  5. Technion Israel Institute of Technology5
  6. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev2
  7. Bezalel Academy of Art and Design2
  8. Chandigarh College of Engineering & Technology2
  9. The Open University2
  10. The University of Chicago Booth School of Business2
Previous companyCount
  1. Israel Defense Forces8
  2. Check Point5
  3. Proofpoint5
  4. Dome9 Security4
  5. Elbit Systems4
  6. Stratoscale4
  7. BugSec3
  8. KayHut3
  9. Palo Alto Networks3
  10. Amazon Web Services2
06 · Similar investors

Similar investors.

Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.

Accel
Venture Capital · Palo Alto
#32 rank 1,156 companies $2.9T portfolio
Bessemer Venture Partners
Venture Capital · San Francisco
#56 rank 849 companies $1.9T portfolio
Sequoia
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#3 rank 1,921 companies $23T portfolio
Insight Partners
Private Equity · New York City
#20 rank 817 companies $2.1T portfolio
Kleiner Perkins
Private Equity · Menlo Park
#51 rank 778 companies $9.0T portfolio
Intel Capital
Corporate · Santa Clara
#72 rank 984 companies $1.1T portfolio
Plug and Play
Venture Capital · Sunnyvale
#410 rank 1,576 companies $290B portfolio
NEA
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#36 rank 1,186 companies $2.5T portfolio
07 · Key people

Key people at YL Ventures.

Yoav Leitersdorf
Yoav Leitersdorf
Managing Partner
 Ofer Schreiber
Ofer Schreiber
Analyst
 Ofer Schreiber
Ofer Schreiber
Analyst
 Justin Somaini
Justin Somaini
Partner
 Michael Cortez
Michael Cortez
Partner
 Yoav Andrew Leitersdorf
Yoav Andrew Leitersdorf
Managing Partner
 Dany Roizman
Dany Roizman
Board Member
 Idan Tendler
Idan Tendler
Inside sales
 Nir Polak
Nir Polak
Advisory Board Insider
Source: Dealroom next-gen API — investor team endpoint.