YL Ventures - From Seed to Lead

Founders: Ben Bernstein, Dima Stopel, and John Morello

Year founded: 2023

Field: Security Governance

HQ: New York, New York

Gutsy’s revolutionary solution applies process mining to cybersecurity for the first time in order to illuminate every tool, step and action required to achieve compliant cybersecurity postures.

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.

Founders: Dor Fledel, Ariel Kadyshevitch

Year founded: 2022

Field: Identity Security

HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel

Spera is the first Identity Security Posture Management solution delivering end-to-end identity attack surface management, risk reduction, and identity threat prevention, detection, and response.

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.

Founders: Meny Har, Or Gabay

Year founded: 2022

Field: Cloud Security Orchestration and Remediation

HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel

Founders: Liat Hayun, Asaf Weiss

Year founded: 2021

Field: Cloud Data Security Posture Management

HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel

The Eureka Cloud Data Security Posture Management platform enables security teams to successfully navigate the ongoing and often chaotic expansion and growth of cloud data.

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.

Founders: Gil Dabah, Dr. Ariel Shiftan

Year founded: 2021

Field: Privacy Engineering Infrastructure

HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel

Piiano’s PII protection and management platform transforms how enterprises build privacy-forward architecture and operationalize privacy practices.

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.

Founders: Yoni Shohet, Shlomi Matichin

Year founded: 2021

Field: SaaS Security Posture Management

HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel

Founders: Lior Yaari, Idan Fast, Alon Shenkler

Year founded: 2021

Field: SaaS Security Control Plane

HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel

Founders: Eldad Chai, Yoav Cohen

Year founded: 2019

Field: Secure Data Access

HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel

Satori is a Data Security Platform (DSP) that enables self-service data and analytics. Unlike the traditional manual data access process, with Satori, users have a personal data portal where they can see all available datasets and gain immediate access to them.

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.

Founders: Lior Levy, Ronen Slavin, Dor Atias

Year founded: 2019

Field: Software Supply Chain Security

HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel

Cycode’s complete software supply chain security solution provides visibility, security, and integrity across all phases of the software development lifecycle.

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.

Founders: Avi Shua, Gil Geron

Year founded: 2019

Field: Cloud Security

HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel

Orca Security is the industry-leading Cloud Security Platform that identifies, prioritizes, and remediates security risks and compliance issues across cloud estates spanning AWS, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, Google Cloud and Kubernetes.

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.

Founders: Uri May, Tomer Kazaz

Year Founded: 2018

Field: SOC Platform

HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel

Hunters’ automated, cloud-native platform is built to support the entire SOC workflow – from data ingestion and retention, to threat detection, investigation and response.

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.

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 Platform

HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel

Vulcan Cyber breaks down organizational cyber risk into measurable, manageable processes to help security teams go beyond their scan data and actually reduce risk.

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.

Founders: Jonathan Langer, Itay Kirshenbaum, Pini Pinhasov

Field: Cybersecurity for Medical Devices

Year Acquired: 2021

Acquired by: Claroty

Acquired by

Claroty

Langer, Kirsh & Pini are a dream team on a mission to protect connected medical devices from cyberattacks threatening patient safety and privacy

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.

Founders: Roy Erlich, Chen Gour Arie, Barak Tawily

Year founded: 2020

Field: Application Security Posture Management

HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel

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

Field: Embedded Security for Connected Systems

Year founded: 2015

HQ: Ann Arbor, Michigan

Founder: Amit Kanfer

Field: Authorization Policy Management

Year Acquired: 2021

Acquired by: Elastic

Founders: Dean Sysman, Ofri Shur, Avidor Bartov

Field: Unified Visibility & Control Of Endpoint Devices

Year Exited: 2021

Acquired by : ICONIQ Growth, Alkeon Capital, DTCP, and Harmony Partners

Exited at Unicorn Valuation

This all-star team of world leading cybersecurity experts tackles the ‘Cambrian Explosion’ of devices on enterprise networks

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.

Founders: Ben Bernstein, Dima Stopel

Field: Virtual Container Security

Year Acquired: 2019

Acquired by: Palo Alto Networks

Acquired by

Palo Alto Networks

Ben & Dima were the first in the world to identify the containers security problem

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.

Founders: Eran Barak, Barak Klinghofer, Idan Levin

Field: Cybersecurity Orchestration and Automation

Year Acquired: 2017

Acquired by: Microsoft (MSFT)

Acquired by

Microsoft

Every SOC team would love to have Eran, Idan & Barak. The next best thing – Hexadite’s automated incident response platform

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.

Founders: Doron Elgressy, Yair Grindlinger

Field: Cloud Access Security Broker

Year Acquired: 2016

Acquired by: Proofpoint (PFPT)

Acquired by

Proofpoint

Yair & Doron are true visionaries who built a world-class security solution for enterprises adopting cloud applications

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.

Founder: Alon Girmonsky

Field: Performance Testing

Year Acquired: 2016

Acquired by: CA Technologies (CA)

Founders: Amos Peleg, Dr. Shai Geva

Field: Online Retail Intelligence

Year Acquired: 2018

Acquired by: Walmart (Flipkart)

Founders: Aviv Raff, Dudi Matot, Alex Milstein

Field: Cloud-based Malware Detection

Year Acquired: 2017

Acquired by: Radware

Founders: Ofer Gadish, Ofir Ehrlich, Gil Shai, Leonid Feinberg

Field: Web Acceleration

Year Acquired: 2011

Acquired by: Limelight Networks (LLNW)

Acquired by

Limelight Networks

The ultimate team of serial entrepreneurs disrupted the web acceleration market, and enhanced the internet browsing experience

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.

Founders: Dr. Tal Schwartz, Arik Yavilevich

Year Founded: 2013

Field: Web Analytics

Acquired by : Amadeus Capital

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