Yoav Leitersdorf
Managing Partner at YL Ventures
Yoav Leitersdorf
Managing Partner at YL Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Seed Investor
2023 - Current
Miggo (miggo.io) is the first Application Detection and Response (ADR) platform, on a mission to stop application breaches. 80% of all cyber incidents take place in the application layer, however too many are being slipped by existing tools due to a blind spot to the actual application behavior. By using in-application runtime context, Miggo maps how applications actually operate in runtime, identifies high-risk application flows, pinpoints the weak spots, and provides real-time detection and response capabilities in the application layer.
Managing Partner
2007
YL Ventures (www.YLVentures.com) 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.
Seed Investor
2022
Gutsy (www.gutsy.com) applies process mining to security to give enterprises a continuous, automatic, data-driven understanding of how all their tools and teams work together as part of processes.
Seed Investor
2022
Aim Security (www.aim.security) is the industry guide to secure GenAI adoption, equipping security leaders with the ability to drive business productivity while providing the right guardrails and ensuring proactive protection for all use cases across the entire organization, whether enterprise use or production use. Leading CISOs and security practitioners on their secure GenAI journey, Aim empowers enterprises to unlock the full potential of GenAI technology without compromising security.
Seed Investor
2021
Grip Security (www.grip.security), the pioneer in SaaS security, brings the industry’s most comprehensive visibility across an enterprise’s entire SaaS portfolio – known or unknown for SaaS applications, users, and their interactions – with extreme accuracy and deployment in minutes. Armed with deep visibility, Grip’s enforceable endpoint-centric approach secures all SaaS application access regardless of device or location as well as maps data flows to apply security policies – including data loss prevention. Grip works as a standalone platform or complements any CASB deployment with nominal resourcing and no performance degradation so enterprises can get a grip on their SaaS security.
Seed Investor
2019
Cycode (www.cycode.com), the industry’s first source code control, detection and response platform, utilizes its unique Source Path Intelligence engine to seamlessly deliver comprehensive visibility into all of an organization’s source code and automatically detect and respond to anomalies in access, movement and usage. With Cycode, organizations are “Secured to The Source”; their security teams can rapidly and dramatically reduce the risk of source code loss without impacting developer access or productivity.
Seed Investor
2018
Hunters.AI (www.hunters.ai) is the industry’s first Autonomous Hunting solution. Hunters combines its unique Attack Intelligence, Hunting AI and Continuous Automation with the enterprise’s existing security data to transform enterprise threat hunting from hunt and hope to hunting that works. Hunters.AI generates and delivers actionable visualized attack stories allowing organizations to more quickly and effectively identify, understand and respond to attacks.
Seed Investor
2021
Valence (www.valencesecurity.com) is the first Business Application Mesh security company, focused on managing the risks from third-party integrations and securing app-to-app connectivity in the modern business environment. Valence’s platform applies zero trust principles to the Business Application Mesh, a complex network of applications interconnected by APIs and hyperautomation workflows, to deliver comprehensive visibility into the risk surface, reducing unauthorized access and preventing critical data loss. With Valence, organizations get a clear view of the Business Application Mesh and a clear path to control, govern and secure it.
Seed Investor
2019
Satori Cyber (www.satoricyber.com) is revolutionizing data protection and governance. It’s Secure Data Access Cloud seamlessly integrates into any environment to deliver complete data-flow visibility utilizing activity-based discovery and classification. The platform provides context-aware and granular data access and privacy policies across all enterprise cloud or hybrid data stores. With Satori Cyber, organizations and their security teams can confidently ensure that data security, privacy and compliance are in place, enabling data-driven innovation and competitive advantage.
Seed Investor
2019
Orca Security (www.orca.security) is the Cloud Visibility Company. The Orca Cloud Visibility Platform utilizes its unique SideScanning™ technology to seamlessly deliver comprehensive full-stack visibility into all of your entire cloud infrastructure and assets in a fraction of the time and cost of alternative approaches. Orca gives IT security teams the power to enable “Security at the Speed of the Cloud.”
Education
MBA
2001 - 2003
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