Kate Burkhardt
Principal at YL Ventures
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Principal
2024 - Current
YL Ventures funds and supports visionary cybersecurity entrepreneurs from seed to scale to help them evolve transformative ideas into market-leading companies. The firm accelerates company growth with tailored support through its powerful network of Chief Information Security Officers, global industry leaders, and a dedicated team of multidisciplinary experts. Based in Silicon Valley, New York and Tel Aviv, YL Ventures manages five funds with $800M in total AUM. The firm has a track record of seeding cybersecurity unicorns such as Axonius and Orca Security, and its portfolio companies have been successfully acquired by high-profile, global industry leaders including Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft, Okta and Proofpoint. In 2022, YL Ventures ranked 8th out of over 250 venture capital firms in PitchBook’s prestigious Global Manager Performance Score League Tables, and was the only cybersecurity-focused VC to secure a top 10 spot on the list.
Vice President
2022 - 2024
Associate
2021 - 2022
YL Ventures funds and supports seed-stage entrepreneurs in the cybersecurity sector.
Seed Investor
2024
Seed Investor
2024
Seed Investor
2023
Gutsy is a new way to do security governance, enabled by applying process mining to cyber for the first time
Raised $51,000,000.00 from Mayfield Fund, Mickey Boodaei, Chenxi Wang, George Kurtz, Udi Mokady, Assaf Rappaport and YL Ventures.
Seed Investor
2023
Acquired by Okta
Seed Investor
2022
Seed Investor
2022
Seed Investor
2021
Seed Investor
2021
Valence enables organizations to find and fix SaaS risks, with comprehensive SSPM, threat detection, and risk remediation.
Raised $32,000,000.00 from Porsche Ventures, Akamai Technologies, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, YL Ventures, StoneMill Ventures, Alumni Ventures and Michael Fey.
Seed Investor
2021
Education
Master of Business Administration - MBA
2019 - 2021
B.A.
2009 - 2013