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YL Ventures Closes $400 Million Cybersecurity Investment Fund

Israeli venture capital outfit plans to invest in seed-stage rounds of approximately 10 cybersecurity startups at a pace of 3 startups per year

Israeli venture capital outfit plans to invest in seed-stage rounds of approximately 10 cybersecurity startups at a pace of 3 startups per year

YL Ventures, an active venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage cybersecurity startups, has closed a new $400 million fund and announced plans to ramp up investments in Israel’s security technology sector.

The Tel Aviv-based firm, which counts red-hot companies like Axonius and Orca Security among its portfolio, said the closing of its fifth fund brings the total capital under management to $800 million.

YL VenturesThe firm said the plan is to use the new capital to support Israeli security startup founders “from inception through every critical stage” of building and positioning a company to solve pressing security problems.

YL Ventures said the fund will be used to lead seed-stage rounds of approximately 10 startups at a pace of 3 startups per year. The company will also invest in the companies’ follow-on rounds.

Startups with roots in Israel have found traction in the global cybersecurity market and YL Ventures has established itself as a major player in the ecosystem.

“For the past 15 years, our primary priority has been providing our portfolio companies with everything they need from the very beginning in order to break into the global market,” YL Ventures managing director Yoav Leitersdorf said in a note announcing the fund.

“We plant the first seed in these budding startups and then continue to support them as they blossom [and] succeed,” he added. 

In addition to its unicorn-valuation investments in Axonius and Orca Security, YL Ventures has scored exits via acquisitions by major corporations including Palo Alto Networks (Twistlock), Microsoft (Hexadite), CA (BlazeMeter) and Proofpoint (FireLayers). 

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Ryan Naraine is Editor-at-Large at SecurityWeek and host of the popular Security Conversations podcast series. He is a security community engagement expert who has built programs at major global brands, including Intel Corp., Bishop Fox and GReAT. Ryan is a founding-director of the Security Tinkerers non-profit, an advisor to early-stage entrepreneurs, and a regular speaker at security conferences around the world.

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