Portfolio - YL Ventures

Founders

Ido Geffen, Gon Chalamish, Omer Ninburg

Founded

2025

Field

Offensive Security

HQ

Tel Aviv, Israel

VC Partners

Novee is the first AI platform that combines offensive and defensive cybersecurity in one autonomous system. Its AI agents continuously penetrate enterprise environments, identifying novel vulnerabilities and chaining exploits with human-level sophistication, then immediately provide tailored remediation for each customer's technology stack.

Unlike specific point-in-time penetration testing, Novee operates 24/7, validating real exploitability and automatically retesting fixes. This continuous feedback loop delivers human-quality security validation at machine scale, enabling organizations to stay ahead of sophisticated attackers.

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Jan 15, 2026

Founders

Amit Meggido, Gal Ordo, Eyal Faingold

Founded

2024

Field

Cloud Security

HQ

Seattle, USA

VC Partners

Native helps organizations achieve stronger security outcomes by harnessing the full power of native cloud security controls. Designed for the realities of multi-cloud operations, Native provides a unified operational platform that lets you define security outcomes in natural language and seamlessly translate them into built-in security capabilities across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and OCI to bring consistency and control to complex environments. The platform consolidates and abstracts security capabilities from multiple providers into a single authoritative control plane making multi-cloud secure-by-design.

Founders

Barak Perelman, Mille Gandelsman, Ido Trivizki

Founded

2024

Field

AI-Native Identity Security

HQ

New York, USA

VC Partners

Opti is the AI-native IAM platform built to transform how identity teams work. It unifies and analyzes identity data across any app, IdP, or homegrown system, and its specialized domain-expert AI models deliver real-time visibility, automated remediation, and intelligent governance. Purpose-trained LLMs provide deep context and explainable actions that help teams mitigate risk, streamline JML, and automate UARs. Think of Opti as the operating system for modern identity teams - making identity work faster, smarter, and audit-ready by design.

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Founders

Micha Rave, Shmulik Ladkani, Alon Horowitz, Chen Nisnkorn

Founded

2024

Field

Machine Identities

HQ

Tel Aviv, Israel

VC Partners

Hush Security is building the first Secretless Access Management Platform for machine identities in the modern enterprise. It replaces static secrets with just-in-time, policy-based access at runtime, eliminating vaults and stopping credential-based attacks at the source.

In most enterprises, secrets still sprawl across code, pipelines, and workloads, creating silent vulnerabilities attackers can exploit. The rapid growth of AI agents only accelerates this, introducing thousands of unmanaged machine identities. Hush ends the era of secrets and vaults by dynamically granting identities, including AI agents, only the access they need, when they need it, with full visibility across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments.

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Founders

Eran Barak, Itai Schwarz, Hod Bin Noon

Founded

2023

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Data Loss Prevention

HQ

Seattle, USA

VC Partners

MIND is the first-ever data security platform to enable stress-free data loss prevention (DLP) and insider risk management (IRM) programs on autopilot. In this era of AI, the award-winning platform autonomously discovers and classifies sensitive data, detects and remediates data security issues, and prevents data leaks in real-time. It revolutionizes data security to deliver both posture and prevention – protecting data at rest and in motion.

By providing a unified DLP platform, MIND allows organizations to seamlessly safeguard sensitive data across SaaS and Gen AI apps, on-premise file shares, endpoints and emails. Security teams can consolidate existing DLP tools and policies, eliminate false positives and act with confidence.

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Founders

Daniel Shechter, Itai Goldman

Founded

2023

Field

Application Detection & Response and AI Runtime Security

HQ

New York, USA

VC Partners

Miggo Security delivers AI runtime defense through its application detection and response (ADR) solution, empowering enterprises to identify and neutralize application threats. With its AI-augmented platform, Miggo helps organizations secure traditional, cloud-native and AI-driven applications at scale, reducing exposure windows by up to 99% and cutting operational overhead by 30% or more.

Miggo achieves this through continuously observing application components in execution, tracing exploitable attack paths and creating a surgical protection strategy through its WAF Copilot and DeepTracing™ sensor.

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Founders

Ben Bernstein, Dima Stopel, John Morello

Founded

2022

Field

Application Security

HQ

New York, USA

VC Partners

Minimus, founded by the team that built Twistlock, tackles the hidden risk inside modern software: container images packed with unnecessary components and known vulnerabilities. Its minimal, verified container images include only what’s essential, resulting in over 97% fewer vulnerabilities and dramatically cutting exposure before code ever reaches production.

By redefining how secure software is built, Minimus brings predictability and trust back to the supply chain. Enterprises rely on its hardened images to simplify compliance, strengthen deployment pipelines, and ship software that starts secure, not after patches - but by design.

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Founders

Gil Dabah, Ariel Shiftan

Founded

2021

Field

AI Security

HQ

New York, USA

VC Partners

MCPTotal enables enterprises to govern how AI agents interact with their systems and data. Built around the Model Context Protocol (MCP), its platform gives security teams unified visibility and control over MCP servers, keys, and agent connections across hybrid environments. From running curated MCPs to discovering them in the organization.

By enforcing policies, blocking risks, and maintaining real-time auditability, MCPTotal brings order to AI-driven operations. It delivers the oversight enterprises need to innovate confidently with AI, securing systems they may not directly control while ensuring compliance and governance remain built into every interaction.

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Founders

Yoni Shohet, Shlomi Matichin

Founded

2021

Field

SaaS and AI Security

HQ

New York, USA

VC Partners

Valence protects organizations from threats created by SaaS and AI sprawl. By unifying SaaS discovery, SSPM, AI security, and ITDR, Valence delivers the comprehensive coverage needed to find and fix SaaS and AI risks. The platform uncovers shadow AI, flags misconfigurations before they become incidents, and detects unusual activity across human and service identities.

Valence goes beyond visibility with one-click remediation, automated workflows, and guided collaboration to help security teams operationalize their SaaS and AI security programs. Trusted by leading organizations, Valence enables secure SaaS and AI adoption.

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Founders

Lior Yaari, Idan Fast

Founded

2021

Field

AI & SaaS Security

HQ

Boston, MA

VC Partners

Grip is securing the future of business, where every workflow, decision, and operation is powered by AI. The platform enables organizations to innovate securely, stopping rogue agents, preventing cascading breaches, containing unobservable models, and eliminating entitlement sprawl.

As AI and SaaS converge into a single, connected ecosystem, Grip’s AI + SaaS Security Platform protects every app, model, and agent. By reducing exposure, improving auditability, and uncovering cost savings across the enterprise, Grip helps organizations secure their core while governing growth.

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Founders

Lior Levy, Ronen Slavin, Dor Atias

Founded

2019

Field

Application Security Posture Management

HQ

Tel Aviv, Israel

VC Partners

Cycode’s AI-Native Application Security Platform unites security and development teams with actionable context from code to runtime to identify, prioritize, and fix the software risks that matter. Powered by proprietary scanners, third-party integrations, and the Risk Intelligence Graph (RIG), Cycode delivers unified, correlated insight across the Software Factory.

Its unique ability to sense, reason, and act with context in the AI-Era comes from its foundational convergence of AST, ASPM, and Software Supply Chain Security, purpose-built to secure both AI- and human-generated code.

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Founders

Gil Geron, Avi Shua

Founded

2019

Field

Cloud Security

HQ

Portland, USA

VC Partners

Orca Security is a global leader in cloud security and one of cybersecurity’s fastest-growing unicorns. Orca enables organizations to make cloud security a strategic advantage. With the most comprehensive coverage and visibility across multi-cloud environments, the agentless-first Orca Platform unites teams to eliminate complexities, vulnerabilities and risks.

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Founders

Uri May, Tomer Kazaz

Founded

2019

Field

Security Operations

HQ

Tel Aviv, Israel

VC Partners

Hunters delivers an AI-driven, next-generation SIEM platform built for modern security teams. Its solution offers pre-built, always-on detections across identity, cloud, and endpoint data, with unified ingestion and analysis. Hunters replaces separate tools with a single platform where alerts, investigations, and response are integrated and automated.

By normalizing data, correlating events across sources, and automating triage and response workflows, Hunters enables lean SecOps teams to operate with the speed and effectiveness of much larger teams. The result: faster detection, reduced noise, and a security operation that scales on real terms.

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Founders

Uri Lavi, Lior Cohen

Founded

2018

Field

ADAS for Motorcycles

HQ

Tel Aviv, Israel

VC Partners

Ride Vision brings modern safety intelligence to motorcycles with the first collision avoidance system built specifically for two- and three-wheeled vehicles.

Founded by Uri Lavi and Lior Cohen, both lifelong riders and computer vision experts, the company set out to close the longstanding gap in motorcycle safety. Its platform uses dual wide-angle cameras, lightweight onboard hardware, and proprietary AI to detect forward collisions, blind spots, unsafe overtakes, and dangerous following distances, delivering real-time alerts through subtle LED indicators on the mirrors.

At the center is Collision Aversion Technology, which scans the road and evaluates threats using machine learning, alerting riders only when action is needed. The system also records rides, syncs with a mobile app, and works across motorcycle brands in all weather conditions.

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"Ride Vision raises $7 million for AI that..."

Nov 16, 2020

Aim Security

Founders

Matan Getz, Adir Grus

Founded

2022

Field

AI Security

HQ

Tel Aviv, IL

Acquired by

Cato Networks

VC Partners

The surge of generative AI introduced a new enterprise attack surface that existing tools could not cover. Aim built the first platform to secure enterprise AI adoption, protecting employee use of public AI, safeguarding private AI systems, and enforcing policies throughout the AI lifecycle.

Its rapid uptake by Fortune 500 companies showed how urgent AI security had become. In 2025, Aim was acquired by Cato Networks in one of the largest AI-cybersecurity deals to date, integrating AI protection into the SASE fabric.

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Satori

Founders

Eldad Chai, Yoav Cohen

Founded

2019

Field

Data Security

HQ

Sunnyvale, CA

Acquired by

Commvault

VC Partners

Data and AI projects require rapid access to information without losing control. Satori developed a data security platform that automatically discovered sensitive data, applied access controls, and enforced policies in real time without forcing schema or workflow changes.

Enterprises relied on Satori to standardize governance across modern data warehouses and pipelines, reducing risk while keeping projects on track. In 2025, Commvault announced the acquisition of Satori to extend its data and AI security capabilities.

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Vulcan Cyber

Founders

Yaniv Bar-Dayan, Tal Morgenstern, Roy Horev

Founded

2018

Field

Cyber Risk Posture Management

HQ

Tel Aviv, IL

Acquired by

Tenable

VC Partners

As enterprise attack surfaces grew, vulnerability findings multiplied without context or prioritization. Vulcan Cyber built ExposureOS, a platform that consolidates data across tools and environments, normalizes it, and ranks remediation by actual business risk.

By making detection a continuous, coordinated process, Vulcan enabled enterprises to cut risk faster and more precisely. Customers reported remediation cycles accelerate and critical issues drop dramatically. In 2025, Vulcan was acquired by Tenable, validating exposure management as the evolution beyond traditional vulnerability scanning.

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Eureka Security

Founders

Liat Hayun, Asaf Weiss

Founded

2021

Field

Data Security Posture Management

HQ

Tel Aviv, IL

Acquired by

Tenable

VC Partners

As sensitive data moved rapidly into the cloud, enterprises lacked clear visibility into where it lived and who could access it. Eureka created a Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) platform that automatically discovered and classified cloud data assets, mapped permissions, and surfaced risks across multi-cloud environments.

By transforming sprawling datasets into a governed inventory, Eureka enabled security teams to enforce consistent controls without slowing innovation. In 2024, Tenable acquired Eureka, bringing DSPM technology into its platform and underscoring the category’s importance in modern cloud security.

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Spera Security

Founders

Dor Fledel, Ariel Kadyshevitch

Founded

2022

Field

IAM

HQ

Tel Aviv, IL

Acquired by

Okta

VC Partners

Identity systems in modern enterprises are fragmented across departments, apps, and cloud platforms, creating hidden risks and policy gaps. Spera Security built an Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) platform that consolidates identity and access signals from the entire enterprise stack, surfaces risky entitlements, and enables continuous governance at scale.

By moving identity oversight from manual audits to continuous posture management, Spera turned identity into a dynamic asset instead of a static compliance exercise. In 2024, Okta, Inc. acquired Spera, making ISPM a foundational capability within its identity security ecosystem.

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Enso Security

Founders

Roy Erlich, Chen Gour Arie, Barak Tawily

Founded

2020

Field

Application Security Posture Management

HQ

Tel Aviv, IL

Acquired by

Snyk

VC Partners

Application security programs often lacked a system of record, leaving security leaders without a clear view of coverage or gaps. Enso built the first Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) platform, mapping assets, owners and controls to give enterprises continuous visibility into their AppSec posture.

By operationalizing AppSec as a managed program, Enso helped enterprises prioritize resources and reduce blind spots. In 2023, Enso was acquired by Snyk, confirming ASPM as an essential category for scaling secure development.

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Medigate

Founders

Jonathan Langer, Itay Kirshenbaum, Pini Pinhasov

Founded

2020

Field

Cybersecurty for Medical Devices

HQ

Tel Aviv, IL

Acquired by

Claroty

VC Partners

Connected medical devices introduced cybersecurity risks that traditional IT security tools could not manage. Medigate created a platform purpose-built for healthcare, combining device discovery, clinical context and threat prevention to secure hospital networks and patient care systems.

Relied on by leading healthcare providers worldwide, Medigate set the benchmark for medical IoT security. In 2021, it was acquired by Claroty, expanding the reach of industrial cybersecurity into healthcare environments.

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build.security

Founders

Amit Kanfer

Founded

2020

Field

Authorization Policy Management

HQ

Tel Aviv, IL

Acquired by

Elastic

VC Partners

Authorization in cloud applications was often fragmented, custom-built and error-prone. Build Security pioneered an authorization-as-a-service platform based on open policy standards, allowing developers to enforce fine-grained access controls consistently across applications.

Its approach simplified a historically complex domain and gave enterprises confidence in securing modern apps. In 2021, Build Security was acquired by Elastic, embedding policy-based authorization into its security product suite.

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Axonius

Founders

Dean Sysman, Ofri Shur, Avidor Bartov

Founded

2017

Field

Cybersecurity Asset Management

HQ

New York, NY

VC Partners

Axonius addressed one of cybersecurity’s most overlooked challenges: knowing exactly what assets exist and whether they’re properly secured.

Founded in 2017 by Dean Sysman, Ofri Shur, and Avidor Bartov, Axonius built the leading Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM) platform, giving security teams a unified, continuously updated view of all devices, users, software, and cloud services. By integrating with hundreds of tools, the platform normalizes asset data, highlights security gaps, and automates enforcement.

What sets Axonius apart is its ability to turn fragmented telemetry into a cohesive operational view, enabling teams to detect issues like unmanaged devices or misconfigurations and act immediately. Trusted across industries, Axonius has become the system of record for modern security operations, evolving into a strategic platform that transforms asset visibility into real, measurable outcomes.

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Twistlock

Founders

Ben Bernstein, Dima Stopel

Founded

2015

Field

Container Security

HQ

Portland, OR

Acquired by

Palo Alto Networks

VC Partners

Containers transformed application deployment but introduced unique security challenges. Twistlock established container security with runtime defense, vulnerability management, and compliance controls tailored to modern cloud-native environments.

Deployed broadly as enterprises shifted to containers, Twistlock became the category’s reference point. In 2019, it was acquired by Palo Alto Networks, forming the foundation of Prisma Cloud and cementing container security as a core discipline.

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Hexadite

Founders

Eran Barak, Barak Klinghofer, Idan Levin

Founded

2014

Field

Cybersecurity Orchestration and Automation

HQ

Boston, MA

Acquired by

Microsoft

VC Partners

Investigating alerts consumed scarce analyst time and left threats unresolved. Hexadite built the first Automated Incident Response platform that triaged, investigated and remediated security alerts with speed and consistency.

By reducing mean time to respond, Hexadite changed how enterprises managed security operations. In 2017, it was acquired by Microsoft to strengthen its Defender suite with automated response.

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FireLayers

Founders

Doron Elgressy, Yair Grindlinger

Founded

2013

Field

Cloud Access Security Broker

HQ

Redwood City, CA

Acquired by

Proofpoint

VC Partners

Enterprises embraced cloud apps but lacked effective ways to govern access, usage and compliance. FireLayers introduced a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) that enforced security and policy controls for SaaS applications in real time.

Its technology gave enterprises confidence to adopt cloud applications at scale. FireLayers was acquired by Proofpoint in 2016, embedding SaaS governance into a broader security portfolio.

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BlazeMeter

Founders

Alon Girmonsky

Founded

2011

Field

Performance Testing

HQ

Santa Clara, CA

Acquired by

CA Technologies

VC Partners

Development teams needed scalable performance testing without the constraints of legacy tools. BlazeMeter built a cloud-based testing platform that allowed developers to simulate millions of users and validate application performance in real time.

It became widely adopted in DevOps pipelines for agile testing at scale. BlazeMeter was acquired by CA Technologies in 2016, expanding CA’s developer-focused tools.

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Clicktale

Founders

Dr. Tal Schwartz, Arik Yavilevich

Founded

2007

Field

Web Analytics

HQ

Tel Aviv, IL

Exited

Contentsquare

VC Partners

Digital businesses lacked visibility into how users actually experienced their websites. ClickTale pioneered session replay and behavioral analytics, enabling enterprises to understand customer journeys, friction points and conversion blockers in detail.

Its technology gave rise to the digital experience analytics category. ClickTale was acquired by Contentsquare in 2019, creating one of the world’s largest digital experience platforms.

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Upstream Commerce

Founders

Amos Peleg, Dr. Shai Geva

Founded

2010

Field

Online Retail Intelligence

HQ

New York, NY

Acquired by

Walmart (Flipkart)

VC Partners

Retailers needed dynamic intelligence to compete on pricing in online markets. Upstream Commerce developed an AI-driven pricing and product intelligence platform that monitored competitors and optimized merchandising decisions.

Trusted by major e-commerce brands, it helped retailers respond faster to market shifts. Upstream Commerce was acquired by Flipkart in 2018, reinforcing analytics as a driver of retail strategy.

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Seculert

Founders

Aviv Raff, Dudi Matot, Alex Milstein

Founded

2010

Field

Cloud Malware Detection

HQ

Tel Aviv, IL

Acquired by

Radware

Traditional security solutions struggled to detect advanced, persistent threats in cloud environments. Seculert built a cloud-based threat detection and analytics platform that identified breaches invisible to perimeter defenses.

Its approach offered enterprises continuous, scalable visibility into evolving threats. Seculert was acquired by Radware in 2017, expanding its cloud security portfolio.

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AcceloWeb

Founders

Ofer Gadish, Ofir Ehrlich, Gil Shai, Leonid Feinberg

Founded

2009

Field

Web Acceleration

HQ

Tel Aviv, IL

Acquired by

Limelight Networks

VC Partners

Web applications were often slowed by performance bottlenecks that degraded user experience. AcceloWeb built a web acceleration platform that optimized dynamic content delivery for speed and efficiency. Its technology improved performance for high-traffic sites worldwide. AcceloWeb was acquired by Limelight Networks in 2011, advancing its content delivery and edge services.

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Opus Security

Founders

Meny Har, Or Gabay

Founded

2022

Field

Cloud Remediation

HQ

New York, NY

Acquired by

Orca Security

VC Partners

Remediation backlogs left critical exposures unresolved for weeks or months. Opus delivered autonomous remediation for cloud and infrastructure, using AI to evaluate issues in context, assign ownership, and execute fixes with oversight.

Adopted by enterprises to shrink remediation timelines and reduce unresolved risk, Opus advanced the role of automation in cloud security. In 2025, Orca Security acquired Opus to embed AI-driven remediation into its CNAPP platform.

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