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YL Ventures

Founders John Quigley Yoav Andrew Leitersdorf

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Total investments 58
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$14M
Portfolio companies 27
Rounds per year 3.41
Lead investments 16
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.53
Exits 8
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Cyber Security
  • Network Security
  • Cloud Security
  • Security
  • Information Technology
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Aim Security

Security
$10M31 Jan 2024 -

Gutsy

Computer
Network Security
$51M10 Oct 2023 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Grip Security

$41M22 Aug 2023 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Valence Security

Network Security
Security
$25M26 Oct 2022 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Opus Security

$10M13 Sep 2022 -

Hunters

Cloud Security
Cyber Security
Intrusion Detection
Network Security
SaaS
$68M25 Jan 2022 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Eureka Security

Cloud Security
Cyber Security
Risk Management
Security
$8M12 Jan 2022 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Grip Security

$19M07 Dec 2021 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Karamba Security

Automotive
Cyber Security
Software
$10M02 Dec 2021 Michigan, United States
News
Data operations platform Satori nabs $20M

– Satori announced that it raised $20 million in a series A round led by B Capital Group and Evolution Equity Partners, with participation from Satori’s seed investor YL Ventures.
– The company says it’ll use the funds, which bring its total raised to $25 million, to support product R&D and expand its go-to-market operations in the U.S.
– As enterprises look to move data and analytics to the cloud, they are in some cases facing challenges, slowdowns, and other major barriers to entry.
– Over 90% say that migration is going slower than it should, mainly due to concerns about compliance, security, and technology maturity.

Hunters Raises $30 Million Round to Lead the Open Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Market

– Hunters announced a $30m Series B round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors YL Ventures, Blumberg Capital, Microsoft’s Venture Fund M12 and U.S. Venture Partners.
– The new funding brings the total investment to $50.4m.
– Companies targeted by complex security threats select Hunters XDR for its proven ability to accelerate threat detection, investigation and incident response.
– Among them are recognized brands in the financial services, technology, retail, manufacturing and media industries.

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Total investments 58
Average round size 14M
Rounds per year 3.41
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 16
Follow on index 0.53
Exits 8
Group Appearance index 0.76

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Aim Security

Security
$10M31 Jan 2024 -

Gutsy

Computer
Network Security
$51M10 Oct 2023 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Grip Security

$41M22 Aug 2023 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Valence Security

Network Security
Security
$25M26 Oct 2022 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Opus Security

$10M13 Sep 2022 -

Hunters

Cloud Security
Cyber Security
Intrusion Detection
Network Security
SaaS
$68M25 Jan 2022 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Eureka Security

Cloud Security
Cyber Security
Risk Management
Security
$8M12 Jan 2022 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Grip Security

$19M07 Dec 2021 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Karamba Security

Automotive
Cyber Security
Software
$10M02 Dec 2021 Michigan, United States
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