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Kirk Manoogian

Principal at YL Ventures

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Kirk Manoogian is a Principal at YL Ventures in San Francisco, California, specializing in venture capital and start-ups. With a background in finance and leadership, he has successfully invested in numerous cybersecurity companies at various stages, focusing on the San Francisco Bay Area market. Highlights of Kirk Manoogian's career include his role as Principal at YL Ventures, where he has demonstrated expertise in financial modeling and strategy, and his track record of investing in a variety of successful cybersecurity start-ups in the seed stage.

Work Experience 

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YL Ventures

  • 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.

  • Vice President

    2022 - 2024

  • Senior Associate

    2021 - 2022

  • Associate

    2020 - 2020

YL Ventures funds and supports seed-stage entrepreneurs in the cybersecurity sector.

ylventures.com
MS

Miggo Security

  • Seed Investor

    2024

AS

Aim Security

  • Seed Investor

    2024

SS

Spera Security

  • Seed Investor

    2022

OS

Opus Security

  • Seed Investor

    2022

ES

Eureka Security

  • Seed Investor

    2021

VS

Valence Security

  • 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.

valencesecurity.com
P

Piiano

  • Seed Investor

    2021

GS

Grip Security

  • Seed Investor

    2021

S

Satori

  • Seed Investor

    2019

Streamline data access and security with DataSecOps

satoricyber.com

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