Founders: Ben Bernstein, Dima Stopel, and John Morello
Year founded: 2023
Field: Security Governance
HQ: New York, New York
Dedicated value-add teams with singular cyber focus collaborate with entrepreneurs from day zero to accelerate their efforts towards global success. Help is always there when you need it and aligns with your unique vision and creative freedom.
HEAR IT FROM OUR FOUNDERSDedicated value-add teams with singular cyber focus collaborate with entrepreneurs from day zero to accelerate their efforts towards global success. Help is always there when you need it and aligns with your unique vision and creative freedom.
HEAR IT FROM OUR FOUNDERSCybersecurity is our exclusive focus and area of expertise. Extensive experience and deep knowledge allow us to recognize the earliest signs of trends and opportunities to make smart and fast decisions when time-to-market matters most.
Cybersecurity is our exclusive focus and area of expertise. Extensive experience and deep knowledge allow us to recognize the earliest signs of trends and opportunities to make smart and fast decisions when time-to-market matters most.
Harness the potential of our global network of Venture Advisors. These industry veterans manage over $1 trillion in cybersecurity budgets and operate as executives of Fortune 500 companies and top brands including Nike, Spotify, Levi’s, SAP, Akamai and more…
Harness the potential of our global network of Venture Advisors. These industry veterans manage over $1 trillion in cybersecurity budgets and operate as executives of Fortune 500 companies and top brands including Nike, Spotify, Levi’s, SAP, Akamai and more…
Acquired by
Claroty
Acquired by
Snyk
Acquired by
Elastic
Exited at Unicorn Valuation
Acquired by
Palo Alto Networks
Acquired by
Microsoft
Acquired by
Proofpoint
Acquired by
CA Technologies
Acquired by
Walmart
Acquired by
Radware
Acquired by
Limelight Networks
Exited to
Amadeus Capital
The Gutsy platform can track exactly where actions deviate from established best practices and corporate policies and help cybersecurity teams understand which security tools are underperforming. Using Gutsy’s data and reportage tools, cybersecurity leaders can both communicate and optimize their cybersecurity strategies with clarity and ease.
Spera offers a proactive approach to identifying and addressing identity-based risks by helping security teams take control of their identity sprawl, manage partially offboarded users, and protect against stolen credentials and account takeovers. The company’s innovative platform provides visibility and contextualized insights into identities, permissions, and actions.
Opus provides security teams with out-of-the-box cloud security and remediation processes, automating and eliminating risk while integrating with existing security tools.
Eureka discovers enterprise cloud data store footprints, data store content, security and compliance risk while continuously monitoring, improving, and measuring cloud data security posture and compliance. With Eureka, enterprise users are free to store, access and leverage data with guardrails that don’t interfere with business agility and operations.
Piiano provides developer infrastructure to protect customer secrets and ensure their privacy–even in the event of a breach. The Piiano Vault enables organizations to safely store sensitive personal data in their own cloud environments with automated compliance controls, saving engineers and security leaders time, effort and resources while achieving secure and compliant applications.
Valence’s SaaS Application Security Platform remediates organizations’ third-party integration, identity, misconfiguration, and data-sharing risks across SaaS applications by automating workflows that engage with business users.
Grip helps security teams discover, prioritize, secure and orchestrate SaaS security for all apps, known and unknown, with full visibility into the organizations’ entire SaaS portfolio,and enforceable endpoint-centric access and data governance capabilities.
Satori’s comprehensive DSP manages access, permissions, security, and compliance policies – all from a single console. Satori continuously discovers sensitive data across data stores and dynamically tracks data usage while applying relevant security policies. Satori enables data teams to scale effective data usage across the organization while meeting all data security and compliance requirements.
Cycode integrates with DevOps tools and infrastructure providers, hardens their security postures by implementing consistent governance, and reduces the risk of breaches with a series of scanning engines that look for issues like hardcoded secrets, infrastructure as code misconfigurations, code leaks and more.
Orcas Security’s Cloud Visibility Platform utilizes its unique SideScanning™ technology to seamlessly deliver comprehensive full-stack visibility into all of your entire cloud infrastructure and assets in a fraction of the time and cost of alternative approaches.
Hunters’ SOC platform empowers security teams to automatically identify and respond to incidents that matter across their entire attack surface. Through built-in detection engineering, data correlation, and automatic investigation, Hunters helps teams mitigate real threats faster and more reliably than SIEMs, ultimately reducing customers’ overall security risk.
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.
With powerful prioritization, orchestration and mitigation capabilities, the Vulcan Cyber risk management platform provides clear solutions to help manage risk effectively. Vulcan enhances teams’ existing cyber environments by connecting with all the tools they already use, supporting every stage of the cyber security lifecycle across cloud, IT and application attack surfaces.
Acquired by
Claroty
Medigate provides a dedicated platform for securing networked medical devices that are connected to electronic medical records, device servers, other enterprise systems and the internet. Medigate delivers complete visibility into devices and risk, detects anomalies and actively blocks malicious activities. Medigate enables providers to ensure the delivery of critical treatment and the protection of patient personal and private information.
Acquired by
Snyk
Enso empowers organizations to build, manage and scale their AppSec programs. The platform deploys into organizations’ environments to create an actionable, unified inventory of all application assets, their owners, security posture, and associated risk.
Karamba’s software is designed and implemented to safeguard resource-constrained systems, without interfering with R&D or supply-chain processes.
Acquired by
Elastic
build.security is the first true platform for authorization, providing developers with a simple solution for managing and eliminating the kind of product vulnerabilities that can capsize entire organizations when exploited.
Exited at Unicorn Valuation
Axonius delivers a unified, extensible, and open platform that integrates information from networked devices and existing device-specific standalone management solutions, creating a single visibility and control environment. Axonius dramatically improves an organization’s security and operational posture, allowing IT and security operations teams to safely enable device adoption and usage at scale.
Acquired by
Palo Alto Networks
Twistlock provides the industry’s first enterprise suite for container security. Twistlock’s product addresses risks on the host and within the containerized application, enabling enterprises to enforce consistent security policies from development to production. Twistlock’s innovative technologies monitor container activities, manage vulnerabilities, detect and isolate threats targeting production containers.
Acquired by
Microsoft
Founders: Eran Barak, Barak Klinghofer, Idan Levin
Field: Cybersecurity Orchestration and Automation
Year Acquired: 2017
Acquired by: Microsoft (MSFT)
Acquired by
Microsoft
Hexadite AIRS is the first agentless intelligent security orchestration and automation platform for Global 2000 companies. By easily integrating with customers’ existing security technologies and harnessing artificial intelligence that automatically investigates every cyber alert and drives remediation actions, Hexadite enables security teams to go from alert to remediation in minutes at scale.
Acquired by
Proofpoint
Founders: Doron Elgressy, Yair Grindlinger
Field: Cloud Access Security Broker
Year Acquired: 2016
Acquired by: Proofpoint (PFPT)
Acquired by
Proofpoint
FireLayers enables the responsible adoption of cloud apps, while ensuring security, compliance and governance of any cloud application on any device by any user. The FireLayers Secure Cloud Application Platform delivers full control over homegrown and popular apps like Salesforce, Office 365, SuccessFactors, NetSuite and endless others.
Acquired by
CA Technologies
BlazeMeter ensures delivery of high-performance software by enabling DevOps teams to quickly and easily run open-source based performance tests against any mobile app, website or API at massive scale to validate performance at every stage of software delivery.
Acquired by
Walmart
Upstream Commerce transforms the way retailers grow sales and boost margins through real-time pricing and product assortment optimization, using state of the art Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics and competitive intelligence tools.
Acquired by
Radware
The Seculert Attack Detection & Analytics Platform, delivered as a service, combines machine-learning based analytics and threat intelligence to automatically detect cyber attacks inside the network, revealing exactly which devices and users are compromised.
Acquired by
Limelight Networks
AcceloWeb is the pioneer and leader in browsing experience optimization, enabling websites to accelerate page load times by factors of 2x to 10x, without requiring server-side code changes or client-side plug-ins. AcceloWeb’s proprietary technology can work with or without content delivery networks to provide near-instantaneous Internet browsing, thereby improving user experience and increasing revenues.
Exited to
Amadeus Capital
Clicktale lights up the digital world, revealing customer behavior, needs and intent. The world’s #1 enterprise-class Experience Analytics platform, Clicktale’s deep-drill downs get to the heart of the “how” and “why” behind customer behavior.
This coming #CyberDay, we’re excited to collaborate with ICON – Israel Collaboration Network, bringing together top #cybersecurity industry leaders and Israeli cybersecurity founders! Featuring cybersecurity luminaries, we will be leading a #CISO panel for a challenging and illuminating discussion on how CISOs perceive their positions in and out of the boardroom, and how they succeed…
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#DataOwnership is complex and often overlooked; however, ignoring these tasks has its own consequences. Check out our portfolio company Satori’s Chief Scientist Ben Herzberg’s latest blog to learn how Satori can streamline and ease organizations’ data ownership and why data ownership is critical for organizations to function well, here>> https://hubs.la/Q01lgHxP0
Check out our portfolio company @sperasecurity’s CEO @DorFledel is recent interview with @pulse2news’s Amit Chowdh… https://t.co/QyR2NhRIpV
The August edition of our #TalkingCyber newsletter is here! Catch up on the latest YL Ventures updates, discover the recent industry news and hot deals, gain an Insider Tip from Matthew Sharp (CISO, Logicworks) and more! Access here: https://hubs.la/Q01lgTLm0
Our portfolio company @CycodeHQ is now available on Amazon Web Services (@awscloud) Marketplace, @googlecloud Platf… https://t.co/vbKtIzF5ob
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We are thrilled to announce that our portfolio @Eureka_Sec is a finalist for “Best Security Solution for Data Manag… https://t.co/Ae6Xhz0ooL
On the heels of winning SC Media’s “Early-Stage Investor of the Year” Award at the 2022 #SCAwards, Ofer Schreiber, YL Ventures’ Senior Partner, took part in SC Media’s “Winners Circle” alongside fellow distinguished award recipients: Dave DeWalt (Founder and Managing Partner at NightDragon) – “Growth Investor of the Year,” and Monti Knode (Director of Customer…
Our portfolio company @Valencesecurity has joined the newly launched @msft4startups Pegasus Program which connects… https://t.co/HBh9iAO3a4