YL Ventures

www.ylventures.com

VCMatch tracks YL Ventures as an investor focused on Cybersecurity, AI/ML, and Mobility/Transportation companies, Seed rounds, and United States, Israel, and Global markets. Upload your deck to compare your startup against the full private matching profile.

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Stages

Seed

Focus Areas

Cybersecurity, AI/ML, Mobility/Transportation

Geography

United States, Israel, and Global

Investment Thesis

YL Ventures focuses on finding technically strong founding teams solving hard security and enterprise problems, performing deep technical diligence, deciding quickly, and then applying hands-on support (technical, go-to-market and customer introductions) to accelerate product-market fit and sales. The firm leverages internal domain experts (engineering and security) and an ‘intelligence’ function to discover and validate opportunities, and emphasizes rapid, pragmatic engagement with founders.

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Investment Focus

Who should take a closer look

YL Ventures is most relevant for founders raising Seed rounds in Cybersecurity, AI/ML, Mobility/Transportation, and Cloud Infrastructure, especially across United States, Israel, and Global.

Focus statement

YL Ventures is a cybersecurity-first venture firm that invests in technically differentiated startups (often Israel-founded or -led) and helps them scale into enterprise customers by providing deep technical diligence, security and CISO expertise, and extensive customer introductions.

Value Add

An 'intelligence team' used to discover and source opportunities: "When YL Ventures’ intelligence team discovered Uri Lavi and Lior Cohen..."
Embedded technical experts / operating partners: example reference to "Idan Ninyo, YL Ventures’ engineer in residence" and a CISO program (URLs reference 'CISO in residence')
Hands-on post-investment support including roadmap, operational planning, marketing and customer/OEM/tier-1 introductions: "YL Ventures wasted no time in several strategic areas, including helping them with their roadmap, operational plan, marketing, and additional OEM and tier 1 suppliers and customer meetings."
Strong enterprise/customer network and willingness to run rapid validation calls with OEMs, tier-1 suppliers and insurers to de-risk GTM: "the YL Ventures team lined up a series of video calls between Uri and Lior and BMW, Honda, Suzuki, Bosch..."
Reputation and focus in cybersecurity (ranked/top positioning): shown in site footer as "Top 10 Cybersecurity VC (2022, 2023, 2024)"