YL Ventures

YL Ventures funds & supports brilliant Israeli cybersecurity entrepreneurs from seed to lead.

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We’re privileged & proud to work with extraordinary #entrepreneurs & support them as they grow from #SeedToLead! Learn how our 360° #YLValueAdd support accelerates their success in our founders’ own words: https://t.co/1pJkV9k5aM

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New research from Miggo Security and the Cloud Security Alliance found that more than 80% of organizations that miss the 24-hour patch window experience incidents involving vulnerabilities they already knew about.

Read the full report → https://t.co/cpFYZSYg8r

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YLV advisor Jadee Hanson is featured in the FT's new cybersecurity report: She points to where the threat is heading next: agent-to-agent actions, where AI systems are manipulated through prompt injection or handed access they were never meant to have. https://t.co/UFeuFrgk6d"

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Miggo Security just launched Miggo Pulse, the first end-to-end defense against AI-accelerated exploitation that closes the gap in a single workflow. Real-time vuln intelligence, runtime exploitability proof, and instant virtual patching.
https://t.co/2m9cix4Xde

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Anthropic's "Mythos" proves that every unpatched CVE is now an entry point. You can't patch your way out of hundreds of vulnerabilities per container. You eliminate them at the source. Minimus ships container images with zero known CVEs at delivery.
https://t.co/JKyVNZcEk6

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Congratulations to YL Ventures company MIND, on taking first place in the Big Booth category at the Cybersecurity Marketing Society's 2026 Beautiful Booth Awards at RSAC!

This is what building a category leader looks like.

https://t.co/I4bKiDv23A

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Novee Security's CEO and Co-Founder Ido Geffen joined veteran CISO and longtime YL Ventures friend and partner, Justin Somaini, on the latest episode of Somaini's Trust Issues to discuss how Novee is fully automating red teaming and pentesting. https://t.co/n5oASwZYfV

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Congratulations to YL Ventures Venture Advisor and longtime CISO, Troy Wilkinson, on being named Global Chief Information Security Officer at Wynn Resorts!

Wishing Troy and the entire Wynn team continued success!

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Happy 78th Independence Day, Israel!

A country of 10 million people. A cybersecurity powerhouse that went from $689M in annual cybersecurity funding in 2016 to $5.1B in 2025. 75 seed rounds last year alone, averaging $9.5M each.

From seed to scale. From Israel to the world.

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Our VP Marketing Merav Ben Avi was featured on Cybersecurity Marketing Society's podcast to talk about what early-stage security founders get wrong about marketing, and why the first marketing hire isn't there to run campaigns.
https://t.co/ONIjcP8ZoG

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When a critical Fortinet zero-day dropped over Easter weekend, SC Media turned to Miggo Security co-founder and CTO Itai Goldman for expert commentary on what it means for defenders.

Read more here: https://t.co/FWkiRznmkw

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Anthropic's Project Glasswing is an important moment for cybersecurity, shifting the scale of vulnerability discovery. This doesn't replace existing security layers. Cycode CTO Ronen Slavin: the bottleneck shifts from scanning to remediation throughput. https://t.co/GOuKasj8Mj

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Camunda, a $68M-revenue enterprise automation platform, just published a full engineering breakdown of how YL Ventures portfolio company Minimus hardened their container stack.
Hundreds of vulnerabilities eliminated. New security findings down 97.9%.
https://t.co/e02NXGOiRg

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New from MIND: "The Impact of Data Trust on AI Success"
124 CISOs surveyed: 90% have deployed enterprise AI, nearly 2/3 of CISOs lack confidence in their AI data security controls, 1-in-5 AI projects missing KPIs due to data trust gaps.
Join on April 8: https://t.co/w1fcRLwGe4

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YL Ventures Managing Partner Yoav Leitersdorf was featured in CSO Online's roundup of the key takeaways from RSAC 2026. RYoav's take on the state of cybersecurity investing was direct: if you aren't doing AI, investors don't want to talk to you.

https://t.co/WVkV7cY9zB

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At RSAC 2026, Senior Partner Ofer Schreiber sat down with Information Security Media Group (ISMG) to break down what's driving global VCs to enter the Israeli cybersecurity ecosystem at the seed stage at unprecedented levels.

https://t.co/lCvZM1Xe23

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We are proud to see Native emerge from stealth with $42M in total funding to address Agentic AI policy enforcement. Its inclusion in Forbes so soon after launch underscores Native as a timely player in the most critical trend identified at RSAC.
https://t.co/3w5qp9buFs

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Our portfolio company Miggo Security just announced a major expansion of its Runtime Defense Platform at RSAC, adding AI Bill of Materials, runtime guardrails, and Agentic Detection & Response.

Read more here: https://t.co/U4Q7Snpsxu

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This morning, YL Ventures Partner Kirk Manoogian joined fellow investors Katie Gray (In-Q-Tel) and Aaron Jacobson (New Enterprise Associates (NEA)) for a panel on how CISOs and startups can build better partnerships
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Thanks to Jenny Brock for putting together a fantastic event!

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Still running on last night's energy. The Leaders' Lounge at RSAC was something special this year.
We had a room full of CISOs, founders and investors who clearly didn't want the
Thank you to everyone who showed up, we can't wait for next year's Lounge!

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Today at RSAC, Novee Security introduced AI Red Teaming for LLM Applications, an autonomous AI pentesting agent that continuously probes AI-enabled applications for vulnerabilities like prompt injection, jailbreaks, and agent manipulation.

https://t.co/8xyHnAn2OJ"