YL Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Mill Valley, United States

Total investments

60

Average round size

14M

Portfolio companies

28

Rounds per year

3.53

Lead investments

17

Follow on index

0.53

Exits

8

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
AutomotiveSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologySaaSEnterprise SoftwareCyber SecurityNetwork SecuritySecurityCloud Security

Summary

YL Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2007. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco. The company was established in North America in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the YL Ventures, startups are often financed by Dell Technologies Capital, Vertex Ventures Israel, Vertex Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are TenEleven Ventures, Dell Technologies Capital, Rally Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TenEleven Ventures, Viola Credit, Rally Ventures.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Clicktale, Cycode, Hunters.AI For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Israel. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Enterprise Software, Network Security. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less years to receive the investment from the fund.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 23 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this YL Ventures performs on 2 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The high activity for fund was in 2019.

The fund was created by Yoav Andrew Leitersdorf. The overall number of key employees were 3.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Cybersecurity
Stage focus
Series DSeries ASeries ESeries FSeries B Show 2 more
Geo focus
Israel
Check size
Up to 10M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 400000000
Fund raised date
2022-05-16

Analytics

Total investments
60
Lead investments
17
Exits
8
Rounds per year
3.53
Follow on index
0.53
Investments by industry
  • Cyber Security (31)
  • Network Security (25)
  • Cloud Security (20)
  • Security (19)
  • Information Technology (15)
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Investments by region
  • Israel (32)
  • United States (24)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
159M
Group Appearance index
0.77
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
3.41
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Aim Security 17 Jun 2024 Security Early Stage Venture 18M
Axonius 31 Mar 2020 Asset Management, Information Technology, Cyber Security, Network Security, Cloud Security Late Stage Venture 58M United States, New York, New York
Anasen 02 Nov 2016 Software, Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Visualization Seed 590K United States, New York

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