YL Ventures


YL Ventures is an American-Israeli venture capital firm that specializes in cybersecurity.

Investment firm

YL Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm founded in 2007 led by managing partner Yoav Leitersdorf, who founded the firm with John Quigley. The firm has headquarters in San Francisco and Tel Aviv. A main focus of YL Ventures is to introduce Israeli tech start-ups to the American market and develop a US customer base. They also track the pre-development of Israeli tech companies, through an in-house intelligence team. It focuses on cybersecurity development.

Finances

As of 2020, YL Ventures manages $270 million across four funds, including a $120 million fund. In 2018, YL Ventures managed $140 million across three funds, including a $75 million fund. In 2011, YL Ventures sold AcceloWeb to Limelight Networks, and in 2013 they sold Clicktale to Amadeus Capital Partners. In 2019, YL Ventures sold Twistlock to Palo Alto Networks for $410 million. Other investments and sales include FireLayers, which was acquired by Proofpoint; Hexadite, which was acquired by Microsoft; and BlazeMeter, which was acquired by CA. YL Ventures was also an investor in Upstream Commerce, which was acquired by Walmart in 2018.
Its investments include Seculert.