YL Ventures - From Seed to Lead

Founders: Micha Rave, Shmulik Ladkani, Chen Nisnkorn, Alon Horowitz

Year founded: 2025

Field: The First Secretless Access Management Platform

HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel

Hush Security is building a platform where every machine-to-machine interaction is secure by default. Secretless access isn’t a nice-to-have, it’s the future of modern infrastructure.

Hush Security helps organizations discover and take control of their Non-human Identities (NHIs) and the secrets they use to access resources in runtime. While NHIs form the backbone of modern IT infrastructure, they present an expanding and dynamic security challenge across multi-cloud environments. Unlike existing solutions that only provide secrets inventory and visibility, Hush also enables security teams and developers to operationalize and prioritize secrets management based on actual consumption at runtime. The platform combines real-time risk assessment with automated IAM policy enforcement, delivering comprehensive posture management that ensures robust security, operational efficiency and regulatory compliance.

Founders: Eran Barak, Itai Schwartz, Hod Bin Noon

Year founded: 2023

Field: Data Loss Prevention

HQ: Seattle, WA

Founders: Daniel Shechter, Itai Goldman

Year founded: 2023

Field: ADR

HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel

Miggo is the first Application Detection and Response platform, providing the visibility, response and understanding organizations need to prevent application breaches.

Using in-application context to shed light on your biggest attack surface, Miggo’s ADR enables businesses to monitor how applications behave in runtime and stop attackers from manipulating chains of trust between distributed services. With Miggo, monitor application weak spots, identify and mitigate attacks in real time.

Founders: Matan Getz, Adir Grus

Year founded: 2022

Field: Security for GenAI

HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel

Acquired by

Cato Networks

The Age of GenAI is radically transforming the traditional security stack. Aim Security is the enterprise-trusted partner to secure GenAI adoption, equipping security leaders with the ability to drive business productivity while providing the right guardrails and ensuring proactive protection.

The Aim GenAI Security platform ensures the security of every GenAI interaction, agent, and application, safeguarding against adversarial attacks, data leaks, and compliance breaches. With Aim, security and business leaders can get comfortable and unleash the business benefits of GenAI without compromising on security.

Founders: Meny Har, Or Gabay

Year founded: 2022

Field: Unified Cloud Native Remediation

HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel

Acquired by

ORCA

Opus Security’s platform orchestrates remediation processes from start to fix.

Consolidating all security issues across posture and vulnerability tools, Opus automatically aggregates, deduplicates and prioritizes the most crucial data for streamlined, effective remediation. Dramatically reduce the time from identification to remediation with Opus’ effective ability to tag the right technical owner, leverage automation and eliminate manual tasks, while tracking and measuring the process across the entire organization.

Founders: Gil Dabah, Dr. Ariel Shiftan

Year founded: 2025

Field: AI Security

HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel

MCPTotal’s enterprise-grade MCP infrastructure transforms how organizations adopt AI-tool integrations while maintaining security, visibility, and governance.

MCPTotal provides centralized developer infrastructure to secure Model Context Protocol (MCP) activity and prevent new attack surfaces from going unchecked. Its hub-and-gateway framework enables enterprises to consolidate all MCP usage in one place, ensuring oversight, auditability, and compliance without slowing innovation.

The MCPTotal platform allows organizations to host vetted MCP servers with SSO, route activity through an AI-native firewall with policy enforcement, and unify governance with full logging, auditing, and visibility. By addressing untrusted servers, exposed keys, and prompt injection risks, MCPTotal helps security leaders safeguard sensitive systems while enabling employees to securely connect AI agents to business applications.

Founders: Yoni Shohet, Shlomi Matichin

Year founded: 2021

Field: SaaS Security Posture Management

HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel

Valence is a leading SaaS security company that combines SSPM and advanced remediation with business-user collaboration to find and fix SaaS security risks.

SaaS applications are becoming decentrally managed and more complex, which is introducing misconfiguration, identity, data, and SaaS-to-SaaS integration risks. The Valence SaaS Security Platform provides visibility and remediation capabilities for business-critical SaaS applications. With Valence, security teams can empower their business to securely adopt SaaS.

Founders: Lior Yaari, Idan Fast, Alon Shenkler

Year founded: 2021

Field: SaaS Identity Risk Management

HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel

Grip Security is a pioneer in SaaS identity risk management, providing innovative solutions to help enterprises address the security risks associated with widespread SaaS adoption.

Grip’s SaaS Security Control Plane platform helps companies discover, prioritize, secure and orchestrate the mitigation and remediation of risks. The innovative approach of leveraging identity as the key control point allows companies to secure all SaaS applications and empowers enterprises to embrace SaaS adoption securely.

Founders: Eldad Chai, Yoav Cohen

Year founded: 2019

Field: Data Security Platform

HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel

Founders: Lior Levy, Ronen Slavin, Dor Atias

Year founded: 2019

Field: Application Security Posture Management

HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel

Cycode is the leading Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) providing Peace of Mind to its customers. Its complete ASPM platform scales and standardizes developer security without slowing down the business — delivering safe code, faster.

The complete ASPM platform can replace existing application security testing tools or integrate with them while providing cyber resiliency through unmatched visibility, risk driven prioritization and just-in-time remediation of code vulnerabilities at scale. Cycode’s Risk Intelligence Graph (RIG), the ‘brain’ behind the platform, provides traceability across the entire SDLC through natural language.

Founders: Avi Shua, Gil Geron

Year founded: 2019

Field: Agentless Cloud Security

HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel

Orca Security is the pioneer of agentless cloud security trusted by hundreds of enterprises globally. Orca makes cloud security possible for enterprises moving to and scaling in the cloud with its patented SideScanning™ technology and Unified Data Model.

The Orca Cloud Security Platform delivers the world’s most comprehensive coverage and visibility of all risks across the cloud. With continuous first-to-market innovations and expertise, the Orca Platform ensures security teams quickly identify and remediate risks to keep their businesses secure.

Founders: Uri May, Tomer Kazaz

Year Founded: 2018

Field: SOC Platform

HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel

Hunters delivers a Security Operations Center (SOC) Platform that reduces risk, complexity, and cost for security teams.

SIEM replacement, Hunters SOC Platform provides data ingestion, built-in and always up-to-date threat detection, and automated correlation and investigation capabilities, minimizing the time to understand and respond to real threats. Organizations like Booking.com, ChargePoint, Yext, Upwork and Cimpress leverage Hunters SOC Platform to empower their security teams.

Founders: Uri Lavi, Lior Cohen

Year founded: 2017

Field: Predictive Vision for Motorcycles

HQ : Tel Aviv, Israel

Technologists by day, motorbike riders by road – Uri & Lior combine world-class computer vision and business experience to address the safety challenge of two-wheelers

Ride Vision is the only Advanced Rider Assistance System (ARAS) on the market specifically designed with the limitations and safety needs of riders in mind. Its industry-leading Collision Aversion Technology (CAT™) is a fusion of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision, designed to seamlessly integrate with all motorcycle and scooter makes and models.

Founders: Yaniv Bar-Dayan, Tal Morgenstern, Roy Horev

Year founded: 2018

Field: Cyber Risk Posture Management

HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel

Founders: Ami Dotan, David Barzilai, Tal Ben-David, Assaf Harel

Field: End-to-End Product Security

Year founded: 2015

HQ: Ann Arbor, Michigan

Karamba Security is the world leader in End-to-End security for IoT products.

IoT product manufacturers in automotive, renewable energy, enterprise edge, and IoT rely on Karamba’s products and services to seamlessly protect their connected devices against cyberattacks. With more than 120 successful engagements with Fortune 500 companies, IoT product manufacturers trust Karamba’s award-winning solutions for compliance and brand competitiveness when protecting their customers against cyber threats.

Founders: Ben Bernstein, Dima Stopel, and John Morello

Year founded: 2022

Field: Application Security

HQ: Baton Rouge, LA

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Hush Security is building a platform where every machine-to-machine interaction is secure by default. Secretless access isn’t a nice-to-have, it’s the future of modern infrastructure.

MIND is on a mission to help organizations thrive in a digital world by protecting their most sensitive information.

Miggo is the first Application Detection and Response platform, providing the visibility, response and understanding organizations need to prevent application breaches.

The Age of GenAI is radically transforming the traditional security stack. Aim Security is the enterprise-trusted partner to secure GenAI adoption, equipping security leaders with the ability to drive business productivity while providing the right guardrails and ensuring proactive protection.

Opus Security’s platform orchestrates remediation processes from start to fix.

MCPTotal’s enterprise-grade MCP infrastructure transforms how organizations adopt AI-tool integrations while maintaining security, visibility, and governance.

Valence is a leading SaaS security company that combines SSPM and advanced remediation with business-user collaboration to find and fix SaaS security risks.

Grip Security is a pioneer in SaaS identity risk management, providing innovative solutions to help enterprises address the security risks associated with widespread SaaS adoption.

Satori is a Data Security Platform that allows data teams to enable their users to go fast with their data while meeting security and compliance requirements.

Cycode is the leading Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) providing Peace of Mind to its customers. Its complete ASPM platform scales and standardizes developer security without slowing down the business — delivering safe code, faster.

Orca Security is the pioneer of agentless cloud security trusted by hundreds of enterprises globally. Orca makes cloud security possible for enterprises moving to and scaling in the cloud with its patented SideScanning™ technology and Unified Data Model.

Hunters delivers a Security Operations Center (SOC) Platform that reduces risk, complexity, and cost for security teams.

Technologists by day, motorbike riders by road – Uri & Lior combine world-class computer vision and business experience to address the safety challenge of two-wheelers

The Vulcan Cyber SaaS platform delivers complete cyber risk management across all attack surfaces.

Karamba Security is the world leader in End-to-End security for IoT products.

Minimus radically reduces cloud software vulnerabilities.

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Accelerate your growth with true value-add partners.

Accelerate your growth with true value-add partners.

Partner with investors who share and understand your mission.

Partner with investors who share and understand your mission.

Gain access to the most influential decision makers in the industry.

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Hush Security Emerges Stealth to Eliminate Credential Threats With No-Secrets Platform

Aiming High: The Aim Security Path to a Landmark Acquisition

YL Ventures Named to TIME’s List of America’s Top Venture Capital Firms for 2025 and Ranked Among PitchBook’s Top 10 Global Fund Managers

Commvault Announces Intent to Acquire Data and AI Security Company Satori Cyber

MIND Raises $30M Series A Funding to Deliver Autonomous Data Loss Prevention Through AI

Security Evolution: From Pothole Repair to Road Building

Orca Security Acquires Opus to Pioneer Agentic AI-Powered Cloud Security Remediation and Prevention

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We champion visionary cybersecurity
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